Can’t get my nuts off!

[750Y]

Help! I have a nut that I can’t get off. A 14mm is the right size but the nut has become partly burred from me trying to get it off with a ring spanner. A 9/16 is too large & a 1/2 is too small.
Do I need a 17/32? Is there such a thing? Any tips welcome. I tried CRC already… it is driving me mad 8-(

[White trash]

Get a 13mm socket you no longer like.

Hammer the fucker onto the nut.

Remove said nut.

Place in right hand.

Throw the infuriating fucken thing as far as you can.

[Ixion]

Help! I have a nut that I can’t get off. A 14mm is the right size but the nut has become partly burred from me trying to get it off with a ring spanner. A 9/16 is too large & a 1/2 is too small.
Do I need a 17/32? Is there such a thing? Any tips welcome. I tried CRC already… it is driving me mad 8-(

There is such a thing as a 17/32. If you can find one.

But it will probably not fit a metric thread anyway

Most important tool in the mechanics toolbox A BLOODY BIG HAMMER

Most important word in the mechanics dictionary JUDICIOUS

[Waylander]

OR... If you can reach it with a set of vice grips use them to crack it then should be able to use your 14 on it to get it the rest of the way.

[2_SL0]

Try usng a single hex socket. If no luck give me a yell.

[sels1]

I tried CRC already… -(

I use "PB B'laster" penetrating magnetic lubricant. More effective than CRC, just spray on and wait....its bloody magic!

[inlinefour]

can you get a set of vice grips onto the nut? Another thing you can do is make a groove on the nut with a screw driver abd hammer and slowly work the nut loose. Its how I was taught, but it means that it'll stuff the nut and a replacement will be required. However if the nuts/bolts are dodgey replacing them can be a good thing :msn-wink:

[bugjuice]

chisle the side of the nut off to split it..??
have you tried a spanner?
irish screw driver?

[Ixion]

Um. Seriously, if you cant risk loosening it with the BLOODY HEAVY HAMMER, try hiring a rattle gun . They'll shift almost anything.

[ManDownUnder]

Get a 13mm socket you no longer like.

Hammer the fucker onto the nut.

Remove said nut.

Place in right hand.

Throw the infuriating fucken thing as far as you can.

my GOD I'm glad you don't work in the medical sector...

I'd suggest retreiving said nut (and forceably introduced socket) and taking it to a HW shop to find a replacement...

Cheaper than the replacement part
MDU

[ManDownUnder]

Um. Seriously, if you cant risk loosening it with the BLOODY HEAVY HAMMER, try hiring a rattle gun . They'll shift almost anything.

Great idea - and not trying to hijack the thread - use plenty of lubricant or you'll rattle the thread off that thing as soon as it starts to gall

[Skunk]

Try a nut splitter or heat it on one side with an gas axe.

[sparrow_34]

Heating the little fucker with a gas torch can help.

[bear]

chisle the side of the nut off to split it..??
have you tried a spanner?
irish screw driver?

Or use a grinder to make new edges and get a spanner on there, or vice grips and a mallet

[inlinefour]

Put a groove in the side of the nut so the screw driver will stay there. Then tap the screw driver with the hammer to help crack the nut. Then its easy to remove it. Apparently some people here have not had to get truely awkeward things loose? :wait:

[bugjuice]

what a thread... words such as 'nuts', 'screw', 'lube', 'crack', 'tight', 'bang', 'loose', 'fucker'...
and not one sexual inuendo. what has the world come to?

[Storm]

So what you guys are saying is, apply a sh&tload of force and it'll cure anything and everything?
I ask this because I've done that before and stripped the thread

[Wenier]

Two words, IMPACT DRIVER. Thatll have that little shit outa there in no time, but ya need an impact driver to do that of course and youll need a replacement bolt.

And wuts Inlinefour doing with my pic?

[Ixion]

Uh, it hasn't been staked has it ?

[Wenier]

Uh, it hasn't been staked has it ?

Haha now that would be funny if it has been and he's been trying to get it off this whole time.

[Biff]

what a thread... words such as 'nuts', 'screw', 'lube', 'crack', 'tight', 'bang', 'loose', 'fucker'...
and not one sexual inuendo. what has the world come to?

Sorry I've been busy.
Now then.....................................aaaaaaa, hnnnggggggg......oooops too late. Anyone got a tissue?


I vote blow torch. And not just because I bet to use the word 'blow' either

[hondacmx450]

put a dot punch on it and give it whack not wank this will losen the seal or rust if not heat it and then try again
or drill the middle of it and use a extracting tool after heating it

as last way nothing else will work buy a new bike and c if that one will come out :killingme :killingme :killingme :killingme sorry got the better of me

[XP@]

Can you get an angle grinder in there?
if you can, cut the ........... thing off!

then go buy a quality set of spanners / sockets, they do help.

[Sensei]

Tack a nut onto the top with Tig then undo !

[crashe]

OK now the one thing I was taught was this:

Retighten it to then loosen it off.
By retighening it up a tad, helps to loosen the grip the nut has on it.
Then it should loosen up and you should then be able to undo it.

Otherwise, take the whole thing into the shop and let them undo it..
if they break it they have to fix it for free....lol.

Good luck in getting it off. :ride: :ride: :ride:

And I am so surprised that not one person made a comment about you not getting your nuts off.....pmls. Well done lads.

But when you do get your nuts off, can you do it without telling us... thanks in advance. ...lol.

[Flyingpony]

A know of somebody once having a brass nut screwed in as a temp fix while a new oil pressure gauge was ordered.

Bad combination: Brass nut and alloy engine casing.

In the end the nut had to be drilled out and casing rethreaded.

Is it brass?

[FROSTY]

if all else has failed--and most of my suggestions have been covered. Try a file and clean the thing up back to square then see what singel hex socket fits

[Oakie]

what a thread... words such as 'nuts', 'screw', 'lube', 'crack', 'tight', 'bang', 'loose', 'fucker'...
and not one sexual inuendo. what has the world come to?

ummm, you missed 'tool', 'penetrating' and 'vice'. Possibly 'grips' too but that might be a bit tenuous.

[DEATH_INC.]

Bring 'er down to work and I'll knock a single hex onto it and impact gun the b*****d off....

[750Y]

well what a creative bunch of replies. i never knew there were so many ways to crack it. i splashed out on some vice grips which done the trick, cheers all...

[Wenier]

well what a creative bunch of replies. i never knew there were so many ways to crack it. i splashed out on some vice grips which done the trick, cheers all...

Mate vice grips on ya nuts would fucken hurt, but hey whatever ya into right.

Good to see ya got in out in the end, did ya get a replacement bolt?

[gamgee]

what a thread... words such as 'nuts', 'screw', 'lube', 'crack', 'tight', 'bang', 'loose', 'fucker'...
and not one sexual inuendo. what has the world come to?
you missed impact driver :moon::yeah:

[gamgee]

if worst came to worst, i'd just hack saw it off, but then i've got access to just about every (mechanical) tool under the sun and i'm pretty sure a pair of vice grips and a hammer will loosen just about anything (just about)

[250learna]

ohh, i was expecting a different thread :whistle:

[Wolf]

ohh, i was expecting a different thread :whistle:
What? left-hand thread? :killingme

[Wenier]

you missed impact driver :moon::yeah:

He missed it but i mentioned it, would have got it out in a flash.