Roger,
I once freed a very-stuck lug nut from my TR7; the experience may be worth
sharing.
The steel insert in the (non-stock) mag had fallen out, so only about 1/2 of
the hex region of the nut protruded above the face of the wheel. I had
rounded the corners off the nut, and broken a socket.
I abandoned an attempt to split the nut with a chisel when I got down to the
surface of the mag, with no hint of ultimate success.
I finally put some strips of sheet metal into the slot I had cut in the nut
(in the previous step), hammered a Metrinch socket over the nut (with no
corners left on the nut, it had to be grabbed by the flats), applied the
_big_ wrench, and out it came.
Allen Nugent
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 Australia
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