2002 acura tl type S

i have taken the lug nuts off (duh) but neither of the front wheels will come off so that i can replace the brake pads.

without seeing my car, care to guess whats up? is the wheel some how locked/stuck? after 2 hours, i still cant get it off. i cant imagine if i had a flat in the middle of nowhere.

none of my other vehicles were this much trouble getting a tire off.



[Edited on January 9, 2007 at 8:16 PM. Reason : \/ good point. i meant wheel. ha. ]

1/9/2007 8:13:17 PM

i think you should let the air out of your tire before you try removing it. otherwise you might have a bit of trouble on your hands

1/9/2007 8:14:58 PM

You need to give that wheel a swift kick. No, I'm not kidding. I usually either kick the shit out of it (making goddamn sure that it won't fall off the jack BEFORE I kick) or whack the tire with a rubber mallet.

Most Jap wheels fit really good on the hub (hub-centric, if you will), and it's that nice tight fit, coupled with dirt and possibly corrosion, that makes the motherfucker so hard to remove. Sometimes it takes a bit of brute force.

1/9/2007 8:17:54 PM

You did jack the vehicle up right?

1/9/2007 8:23:03 PM

you see if you had a flat in the middle of nowhere and spent a couple hours trying to remove it you would have already kicked the shit out it.

1/9/2007 8:24:03 PM

^ Hahah so true.

1/9/2007 8:25:42 PM

^^good point


but believe me, i have kicked the shit out of it because i cant watch the game and drink beer. and bitch still wont budge. any other ways of force the thing off?

1/9/2007 8:27:32 PM

like zxappeal, i say rubbah mallet

1/9/2007 8:32:05 PM

Kick in on it. At the edge of the tire. Hard.

If you have all of the lug nuts off and it still hasn't come loose, you're not kicking hard enough.

Seriously.

1/9/2007 8:35:25 PM

you can't get the tire or the wheel off?

1/9/2007 8:42:36 PM

wheel y0.

1/9/2007 8:43:40 PM

loosen up the lug nuts but leave them on. Drive car around really slowly. Stomp brakes. Thats how I got a ford rim off a dodge once. Spent an hour beating it with a sledge and it wouldn't budge, so I did that. Popped off in about 5 minutes

[Edited on January 9, 2007 at 8:55 PM. Reason : cannot spell worth shit]

1/9/2007 8:54:54 PM

if you have to post about why your wheel wont come off just leave the lug nuts off and drive it to a j-team member. one of them can break it loose for you

1/9/2007 10:17:29 PM

finally got the bitches off and the new brakes installed. i kicked the shit out of them for 30 minutes straight.


now i need a beer.

1/9/2007 10:37:35 PM

I hope you cleaned the hub well and put some grease or anti-seize compound on it or your just setting yourself up to have this happen again.

1/9/2007 11:18:56 PM

^

1/9/2007 11:26:36 PM

whoever removed your wheels previously might have overtorqued or you just got salt/what others have said.

though i've never had that issue, ever.

1/10/2007 12:09:12 AM

I hadn't ever had this issue either, but it happened to my 03 2500hd, I beleive on the rear wheels. I had to kick the ever loving shit out of them to get them off.

1/10/2007 12:14:44 AM

I'll either give it a good kick or two on the outside edge, OR hit it once or twice on the inside with a rubber mallet.

1/10/2007 12:47:40 AM

i had to jack the whole front end of my tacoma up and wedge something between the wheel and frame and then let the power steering pump do all the work

1/10/2007 11:39:34 AM

i hade and old ford f 150 did the same thing i busted out a road flair heated the hell out of them the fell off like butter in a hot tub

1/11/2007 12:53:12 AM