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Title: Quick tip for alloy stuck wheels
Post by: Tankie1rtr on 06 October 2008, 19:53:13
Hi Guys.
Just a quick tip for removing Alloy Wheels that are stuck on, I was chatting to one of the guys who spent hours hitting the tyres with a hamer, Heres all you have to do. Boil a kettle of hot water, go and pour it over the alloys around the centre hub, the alloy will expand ever so slightly and the wheel should just drop off.  no hammering and frustration
Title: Re: Quick tip for alloy stuck wheels
Post by: markey mark on 06 October 2008, 20:02:44
i normally kick the shite out of them then wire brush the hubs then copper grease the hubs !!  :y
Title: Re: Quick tip for alloy stuck wheels
Post by: waspy on 06 October 2008, 20:05:48
Excellent, i shall do that next time i get a stuck wheel :y
Title: Re: Quick tip for alloy stuck wheels
Post by: yingtong on 06 October 2008, 20:07:24
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i normally kick the shite out of them then wire brush the hubs then copper grease the hubs !!  :y

LOL @ you Mark......and ditto.......then again its a bloody good tip, nice one i think i will give it a try next time :y :y :y

Strangely enough all my wheels came off very easily.... ::) ::) ::)
Title: Re: Quick tip for alloy stuck wheels
Post by: markey mark on 06 October 2008, 20:43:55
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i normally kick the shite out of them then wire brush the hubs then copper grease the hubs !!  :y

LOL @ you Mark......and ditto.......then again its a bloody good tip, nice one i think i will give it a try next time :y :y :y

Strangely enough all my wheels came off very easily.... ::) ::) ::)

i wonder why kev !!  ::)
Title: Re: Quick tip for alloy stuck wheels
Post by: hotel21 on 06 October 2008, 21:03:16
Or undoo the bolts a turn ()one turn only, mind...) then drive and do an emergency stop.  Should be just enough free play to allow the wheel to free from the hub.  Dont drive too far or too fast - the wheels only held on by a wish, remember.....   :y
Title: Re: Quick tip for alloy stuck wheels
Post by: Proz on 06 October 2008, 21:13:13
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Hi Guys.
Just a quick tip for removing Alloy Wheels that are stuck on, I was chatting to one of the guys who spent hours hitting the tyres with a hamer, Heres all you have to do. Boil a kettle of hot water, go and pour it over the alloys around the centre hub, the alloy will expand ever so slightly and the wheel should just drop off.  no hammering and frustration


Nice one ..... happened to a mate of mine just a few days ago ... :y
Title: Re: Quick tip for alloy stuck wheels
Post by: Andy B on 06 October 2008, 21:13:37
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Or undoo the bolts a turn ()one turn only, mind...) then drive and do an emergency stop.  Should be just enough free play to allow the wheel to free from the hub.  Dont drive too far or too fast - the wheels only held on by a wish, remember.....   :y

It don't half make a bang when they let go too.
Title: Re: Quick tip for alloy stuck wheels
Post by: willyboy on 06 October 2008, 21:24:08
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Or undoo the bolts a turn ()one turn only, mind...) then drive and do an emergency stop.  Should be just enough free play to allow the wheel to free from the hub.  Dont drive too far or too fast - the wheels only held on by a wish, remember.....   :y


LOL might try that next time hope you dont read about me in the papers wheels come off car on m-way  :y
Title: Re: Quick tip for alloy stuck wheels
Post by: omegaman2 on 06 October 2008, 21:26:03
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Or undoo the bolts a turn ()one turn only, mind...) then drive and do an emergency stop.  Should be just enough free play to allow the wheel to free from the hub.  Dont drive too far or too fast - the wheels only held on by a wish, remember.....   :y

It don't half make a bang when they let go too.
i had do that once ..........very gingerly round a roundabout
Title: Re: Quick tip for alloy stuck wheels
Post by: dbug on 06 October 2008, 22:57:59
Belt em with a bl**dy great lump of wood - never fails.  
More pleasure than boiling water trick  :-/
Wire brush then copper slip the hubs - will fall off in future!
Title: Re: Quick tip for alloy stuck wheels
Post by: MutantCav on 07 October 2008, 12:01:43
Worth knowing...had one stuck fast the other day...crow bar between and behind the spokes using the brake hub as a pivot point worked in the end where all amount of hitting the thing had failed!