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Omega General Help / Re: Locking wheel nuts
« on: 16 March 2007, 21:09:31 »Quote
Dave
If they are VX ones then the socket you need is 13/16" once you have removed the spinney thingy. Importantly you need to grind the chamfer of the end of the socket, this means that the "teeth" that normally grip a nut will start to bite onto the locking nut as soon as it starts to hammer on. This gave me enough of a purchase to remove one that needed a scaffold tube as an extension to my ratchet before it gave in!!!!. Dont you just love previous owners!
Best of luck mate.
Hi Ricardo,
Yes thery are VX ones. and as many others have already said. I will not be replacing them with VX ones. I have got some from a motor factor for £20. I will be getting one of the locking nut removal sockets with a reverse thread from Halfords when they get some more into stock on Tuesday - then I'll have another go. What a sod!
Dave.