Springman, yup, but do you carry it in your car at all times? I don't, and the method describes far more complicated that it works

Dave, I'm with you on not letting them put wheels on my car, I was working as a mechanic though and had to learn these things
I try to pass them along because I like sharing things that have helped me
I do have one Discount Tire near me (in Brenham) whom I will allow to instal the wheels because the tech there actually have sense and care about the customer

You're right Art, I cannot carry that cheater bar around with me. When without the cheater bar I use a different technique, I call it "Fat boy jumping on lug nut wrench". Has not failed me yet!

I'm gonna GIT that snatsafrapin ritsapoppin ding dang no good
Lug Nut!



SOUTHWORTH, Wash. - A man tired of fighting a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a 12-gauge shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, sheriff's deputies said.

The 66-year-old man had been repairing a Lincoln Continental for two weeks at his home near Southworth, about 10 miles southwest of Seattle, and had gotten all but one of the lug nuts off the right rear tire by Saturday afternoon, Kitsap County Deputy Scott Wilson said.

"He was bound and determined to get that lug nut off," Wilson said.

From about arm's length, the man fired the shotgun at the wheel and was "peppered" in both legs with buckshot and debris, with some injuries as high as his chin.

"Nobody else was there and he wasn't intoxicated," Wilson said.






In other words, Yes, one man can be That STUPID without
Any help from Anyone else or the influence of alcohol.


When I am forced to resort to a cheater I really want to support the ratchet/breaker bar, lug wrench, whatever, out away from the wheel. Pretty much how I'd support the tools if I Was winning by hand.

The amazing thing to me, is the guy made it to 66 years old without a brain...
He probably bred, too...

Removing locks or lug nuts with a shotgun always works for those folks on  the TV!  

I used to know a guy with a '68 Dodge Coronet. He got two of the wheels off (on one side) but the other side's lugnuts would not come off no matter what he tried. He tried breaker bars, cheater bars, brute strength...everything he could think of. He finally gave up and just torched them off.

When he went to the auto parts store to get new lug nuts, the guy asked him if he needed left-hand or right-hand threaded lugnuts. Apparently the old Dodges have lugnuts that spin off differently depending on what side of the car you're on.

He was actually cranking them down tighter!  

Kris01 wrote on 03/17/16 at 17:40:43:

yup, Dodge used left hand threads on their early models
The idea was that using right hand threads on that side of the car might encourage lug nut loosening
I think one of the dodge brothers had some loose lugnuts, his own self