Removing Broken Lugnuts

[ncsutj]

2019 Chevy 2500 with Raceline wheels and splined lugnuts. Took it to a tire shop to have new tires put on. Guy calls me after breaking two lugnuts off. I wasn't there and didn't ask him but I suspect they tried using an impact. Not blaming him at all.

So far the front passenger has 4 broken and 4 that came off. How do I get the rest of the lugnut off? I bought nut extractors but the counterbore in the wheel is so small that the 19mm is the biggest that will go in the hole and it doesn't go to the outside of the taper section of the lugnut.

All of them have broken right at the end of the splined section. I believe the last time I had the tires off was a little less than two years ago. Truck doesn't get driven much.

Suggestions?

 

[LT1JEEP]

It will be tiring and a pain but you can drill the stud out till it releases what's left of the lug nut and it and put new studs back in and so on till you get them all done.
Get a cobalt drill bit to drill it out with and good luck.

 

[UTfball68]

Had something similar happen on t-bird one time…I just went to town with an air chisel on remaining lug nut and sacrificed the studs.

 

[jeepinmatt]

 

[willness33]

Had the same style of shitty lugnuts on my kids tj. Cheap Amazon garbage. One broke the same way. Start drilling. Nothing else worked.

 

[WARRIORWELDING]

Drill is the least damaging method. On old steelies I have use a piece of tube tight over the stud and wiggled til snapping the stud off. Or a socket with extension. This will probably damage the taper on those wheels doing it that way.

As for drilling a closely fitting tube will also make an excellent drill guide to square up and keep it centered.

 

[Noel]

Look up a lug ripper kit. Will save your wheels

 

[spraypaintman]

Get new strong lug nuts and tighten them down on the studs without broken lug nuts and it could release some pressure on the other broken ones. Hammer a skinny long socket onto broken lug nut if possible might come off without drilling. I used to do this with jeeps with the wheel lock lug nuts when the key was lost and it worked sometimes.

 

[ncsutj]

Wheel, brake and hub are off the spindle. Now to see if I can drill the back of the wheel stud off and drive it through.

 

[ncsutj]

 

[skyhighZJ]

Congrats!

 

[R Q]

The suck was very deep on this one. Glad you got them apart.

 

[ncsutj]

The BBC is back on all fours and out of the garage. What a pain in the dick.

 

[ncsutj]

New tires installed today.