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[Seth]

My sentiments exactly Tunnie lad!

[ianu]

Had the challenge of removing a locking bolt with a damaged cake cutter typekey some months ago.  Every time you exerted any pressure to turn the thing slipped out of its keyslot.

I placed the offending wheel a foot or so away from the end of a wall and used a bottle jack onto the tommy bar of the socket set with the locknut to exert big pressure thereby keeping the locknut key firmly in place.

Carefully applied use of a scaffold bar got the nut undone without skipping.  Worth a shot?

Excellent idea - hadn't thought of that  - I have this problem myself at the moment except the head of the bolt disintegrated into two pieces plus the steel ring - not the socket. Keeping the bits together and the pressure on it to stop it twisting back off I think is all that's stopping me from turning it (the thread 'cracked' just before the bolt came apart - so it shouldn't be locked too tight). Currently all the bits have been cast in Araldite in the socket and onto the bolt head to try and get as much gripping as much as possible before I try and turn it tomorrow sometime (when it's had plenty of time to harden properly).
I've got a bottle jack - just need to get the car close enough to the house to borrow the garage wall 

Cheers
Ian.

[ianu]

Had the challenge of removing a locking bolt with a damaged cake cutter typekey some months ago.  Every time you exerted any pressure to turn the thing slipped out of its keyslot.

I placed the offending wheel a foot or so away from the end of a wall and used a bottle jack onto the tommy bar of the socket set with the locknut to exert big pressure thereby keeping the locknut key firmly in place.

Carefully applied use of a scaffold bar got the nut undone without skipping.  Worth a shot?

Excellent idea - hadn't thought of that  - I have this problem myself at the moment except the head of the bolt disintegrated into two pieces plus the steel ring - not the socket. Keeping the bits together and the pressure on it to stop it twisting back off I think is all that's stopping me from turning it (the thread 'cracked' just before the bolt came apart - so it shouldn't be locked too tight). Currently all the bits have been cast in Araldite in the socket and onto the bolt head to try and get as much gripping as much as possible before I try and turn it tomorrow sometime (when it's had plenty of time to harden properly).
I've got a bottle jack - just need to get the car close enough to the house to borrow the garage wall 

Cheers
Ian.

..nope - that didn't work either - the car just kept moving sideways on it's tyres as it still twisted off the top  .
Went into the garage today and they ended up having to tack weld another nut on it to release it  . Definitely not the easiest one they've had to remove - but deep respect to them - no damage to the alloy at all 

[daisy]

Hi
Had the same prob last year.
How to sort it out...... Get a small chisle and gently tap around the anti tamper ring around the locking nut, you`ll see the ring start to come away from the nut. Now use a pin nose plyers and start to pull the ring off. Two to three mins and the ring should be off. Now find a socket just smaller than the remaining nut and tap it over the nut( tight fit is required) Now with your tyre wrench undo the nut. If it slips either the socket is to lose or you need to drive it on more. Took me five mins for the first one then about ten min for the other three. Good luck