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05-05-2013, 01:37 PM
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Thailand Specials
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Hey guys, trying to take the wheel nuts off my Focus to change to the wheel barrow wheel.
Some of my wheel nuts don't have that little cap on them, and are 18mm, no problems taken off easy. The other ones, they're not 20mm and they're not 19 (19 kinda on but just rounds off the cap). Any tips? I'm thinking about grabbing my 1/2" impact gun and butchering them off. |
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05-05-2013, 01:56 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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My wheel nuts on my car when i got it had mismatched ones. Open ended and closed ones and varying sizes.
Mate, if needed, yeh use the impact gun or sledghammer a socket on em to get em off. Needs must..
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05-05-2013, 03:57 PM
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Thailand Specials
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Thanks mate
 I just got a 19mm socket and smashed it on with a hammer, then used the impact gun to get them off. Damo: 1 Focus: 0 And I even had spare wheel nuts lying around. |
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05-05-2013, 04:39 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Not good news if you end up having spare wheel nuts after putting the wheels back on.
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05-05-2013, 07:02 PM
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Location: Victoria
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The one place you don't want spare bits when replacing it all haha.
I've got a few screws and clips and stuff from bits i've pulled off under the bonnet D:
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05-05-2013, 07:33 PM
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Location: Sydney
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Wheel nuts are a pain.....
As you said, no cap=18mm... only problem is I found it near impossible to pry off the caps. So, I used a 3/4 wheel brace and it seemed to work on the nuts where the caps wouldn't budge. Only problem is, after a few uses the caps become slightly distorted, and I could no longer get the 3/4 brace on.... Those caps are a right bloody pain......
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05-05-2013, 07:41 PM
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yep I lose those caps ASAP
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06-05-2013, 11:51 AM
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Thailand Specials
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Nah I had extras I bought just in case from a while back. Tyre shop damaged some wheel nuts, so I was getting around with 3 on one wheel for a while. So now I have 18mm wheel nuts and 19mm wheel nuts on the one wheel D: Quote:
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11-05-2013, 07:41 AM
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Starter Motor
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Fryerstown Vic
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Are their any other wheel nuts that will fit that do not have caps that are not open? I would like to change mine over. Are these type of wheel nuts only on early focus's?
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12-05-2013, 03:21 PM
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On my XR5 I used a Dremal tool with the small grinding disk to cut off those stupid soft metal caps.
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Dodgy wheel nuts?
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