# Stripped Lug Nut! HELP ME GET THIS SUMMABITCH OFF
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stripped-lug-nut-help-me-get-this-summabitch-off/36292
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [October 1, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stripped-lug-nut-help-me-get-this-summabitch-off/36292 "2007-10-01T19:28:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Geoff](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geoff)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stripped-lug-nut-help-me-get-this-summabitch-off/36292/1 "2007-10-01T19:28:38Z")
I’m doing the brakes on the wifey’s car - a 95 grand am, and whoever put the lugs back on it seriously over torqued them. The lug iron with the car fits like crap and me, as impatient as I am, partially stripped them with it. The lugs feel as soft as butter but I managed to get 4 of 5 off by throwing the 12 point 19mm impact socket on them. At this point I just want to get this last one off so I can buy replacement nuts.
Question: **how do I remove the last stripped lug nut? what shop will do it quick/cheap if I can’t figure this out tonight?**
Help!
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### Author:  [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stripped-lug-nut-help-me-get-this-summabitch-off/36292/2 "2007-10-01T19:31:02Z")
Buy a cheap socket 1 size smaller (or sacrifice one of yours). Get a good sledge or other hard hammer. Hammer the fuck out of it. You might be able to get the lug out of the socket afterwards using a punch or something, coming in from the wrench end of it.
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### Author:  [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stripped-lug-nut-help-me-get-this-summabitch-off/36292/3 "2007-10-01T19:31:46Z")
Might also want to mess around with metric vs sae to find something that just BARELY doesn’t fit on so your hammering job is easier.
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### Author:  [@Geoff](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geoff)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stripped-lug-nut-help-me-get-this-summabitch-off/36292/4 "2007-10-01T19:32:19Z")
I tried hammering a smaller one on, maybe I’ll go back out there and wail on it some more
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### Author:  [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stripped-lug-nut-help-me-get-this-summabitch-off/36292/5 "2007-10-01T19:37:52Z")
:word: to Brent. Exactly.
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### Author:  [@Geoff](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geoff)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stripped-lug-nut-help-me-get-this-summabitch-off/36292/6 "2007-10-01T19:40:14Z")
brent I owe you a cookie.
18mm = sacrificed 😃
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### Author:  [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stripped-lug-nut-help-me-get-this-summabitch-off/36292/7 "2007-10-01T19:48:04Z")
FTW! Glad it worked. Now spend a bit of time saving it, if it was a decent socket. I didn’t really have an option when I was using my dad’s Snap-on impacts for this type of stuff. Would have gotten quite an ass-whoopin otherwise.
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### Author:  [@Gus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gus)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stripped-lug-nut-help-me-get-this-summabitch-off/36292/8 "2007-10-01T20:50:10Z")
[quote=“brent\_strong,post:7,topic:36292"”]
FTW! Glad it worked. Now spend a bit of time saving it, if it was a decent socket. I didn’t really have an option when I was using my dad’s Snap-on impacts for this type of stuff. Would have gotten quite an ass-whoopin otherwise.
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Snap On Lifetime Warranty FTW
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### Author:  [@Jagermeister](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jagermeister)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2007, 5:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stripped-lug-nut-help-me-get-this-summabitch-off/36292/9 "2007-10-02T05:27:26Z")
Good work on getting it off.
If anyone else has the same problem in the future I have a set of Specialty Lug Nut sized Bolt Extractors.
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### Author:  [@Studderin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Studderin)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2007, 6:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stripped-lug-nut-help-me-get-this-summabitch-off/36292/10 "2007-10-02T06:22:55Z")
that works on wheel locks too.
…when you buy a car notice if it has them, and get the key. :smash2:
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### Author:  [@EvilJay](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/EvilJay)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2007, 7:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stripped-lug-nut-help-me-get-this-summabitch-off/36292/11 "2007-10-02T07:02:25Z")
Call gary burch.