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Evening everyone. Just found out on brake-change day that my '94 has locking lugs on it. I think I knew that somewhere in the back of my head and just never seemed to remember to check if I had the key or not.... at any rate I'm going to toss the buggers and replace them with regular lugs, so I'd hate to buy a new socket just to never use it ever again, but I absolutely will if I have to. Or having a shop do it will cost me as much as the socket anyway.
My last ditch attempt before succumbing to shipping times however is to ask here if anyone knows of a brick-and-mortar retailer that keeps these things in stock by the single of the kind that came with our cars, or if anyone here on the forums is in the Tucson/Marana/Vail AZ area and might have a key socket that matches mine that I can borrow, take five minutes to replace the lugs right then and there and return it, or simply buy it if it likewise belongs to a car that no longer has locked lugs.
You could buy a cheap deep socket of the appropriate size and drive it on to the lock nut. Since you aren't keeping the lock logs, it only has to last for 4 times.
Oh, I was under the impression that doing that would mean never getting the lug out of there and needing to buy 4 cheap sockets. If that's not the case I'll absolutely do that! Probably 13/16 or 7/8 then, for a 3/4 nut to be hammered over.
Last edited by b_willmon_; Aug 19, 2023 at 09:10 PM.
Get a 12 point, pound it on, like NavAir said. You can get the socket off the lug in 1 on several ways, here are two of them:
1. When the locking lug is broken free and free spinning, put a long extension in the socket, jerk the extension up/down, effectively prying/wiggling the socket off the nut.
2. When you get the locking lug off, lay the socket on it's side on concrete or the flat of a bench vise. Hit the side of the bolt-end of the socket with a hammer...nut will come out.
Locking Lugs - Tucson Area
