I have a 2005 F150 Lariat 5.4 for my 19 year old son for a work truck we bought several months back. Has a 130 K mile on it. He had gone to Walmart for new tires, and several of the lug nuts are clearly stripped and some may be cross threaded.

What is best way of removing these? What luck with a removal tool have you guys had?

Can the individual studs be replaced? Or, does the whole wheel hub assembly need replaced?

thx

 

Usually you can drive in new studs into your hub . The last time I helped on two of these we had to drill out the nuts using the newest and best drill bit we could buy . We had limited room to the fancy aluminum rim . I used a very good variable speed drill .
Someone on here may have a better method .
I use a small amount of anti-seize on all mine and I torque them 150 foot pounds . I put some on face of hub and the circle where it meets to stop them from rust binding .
All the parts stores have these studs and new lug nuts . Tire stores have to fight this now and then .
I will watch and see if you get better answers as we all need to know . Too much of the time there is not room to get to the nut to break/split it .
You could try one of these amazon extractors /especially if you have a powerful impact driver . If you could talk to a worker in one of the tire stores ,you may get some good advice.

 

Traditionally I hook up my impact and tighten them until they snap, then buy new studs and wheel nuts. You stick the studs through the back of the hub and use the new nut to draw them in.

Are the lug nuts stripped so that you can't get a socket on them?

 

The tires shops all use a lug nut extractor on an impact gun to remove wheel locks that you lost the key for.
It's pretty much like a female ez-out. It bites onto the od of the lugnut and takes it off.
Then you have to grind some flats on the lugnut base that's sticking out of the extractor so you can put it in a vise and run the impact on fwd to get the extra it back off.

Another alternative is to pound on the next smaller size mm or sae socket that will fit tighter and impact it off.

 

Thanks for the input. Some of the lug nuts are stripped, and some are cross threaded..

 

Must take a display of equal parts determination and stupidity for the good folks of Walmart tire and lube to cross thread several lug nuts. I'm almost impressed.

 

I would take it back to Walmart and have a conversation with the manager. If the stores employees did the damage, he will likely tell you to take it for repair somewhere else, then to bring him the bill.

 

I'd try an extraction socket first if you can't get any socket on there. That would be an easy win if it bites.

After that then it gets fun with the other options above............