Gorillia Locking Lugnuts

[solid400]

So I got a pretty serious problem. I was going to put new brake pads on my rears today. I have the gorillia locking lugs that you have to use this thin walled extension thing to get them off. Well I started taking off one and the damn thing sheers in half. So now I have half of it stuck in with the lug nut. I tried pulling it out with vice grips but its too tight and won't budge. The local brake place told me they would snap the stud off to do it and charge me a fortune.
Anybody got any ideas??

 

[suprageezer]

You can try heating the socket up with a torch just enough to have the socket swell and hopefully the nut will fall out. If that doesnt work use a cold chisle and place the chisle in one of the teeth of the locknut and slowly tap it with a brass hammer in a counterclockwise direction to loosen it, trying not to cut into the lugnut but having it rotate in the direction that it unscrews.
Good Luck
Rick

 

[mrnickleye]

The tool trucks (snapon, matco, mac) carry a special socket that is made to take off lugnuts that have been stripped (a regular socket won't work).
i have used it to remove some of those gorilla lugnuts, when customer lost key.

 

[Joel W.]

I had this happen on a car i bought with a flush luglock, I welded a nut onto the end of it, It came right off from the heat, If you do this, Tape your rim off first if you dont want to screw up the finish on the wheel..

 

[solid400]

thanks guys I'm gonna try and weld a nut on there and see if i can get that to work tomorrow. Its not that the nut is stripped, but that the metal sleeve is jammed in with the lug