Winters Rusted on........

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smmra

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Changed over to summer rubber last weekend. A half hour job turned into a 3 hour debacle. The winter steelies were stuck to the hub. No amount of knocking would get them off. (pissed) As a last resort I spayed a small amount of WD-40 on the hub, hand tightened the lugs and drove around, did a few hard stops and corners. When I got them back up on the jack it still took a couple of whacks to get them dislodged. Needless to say, I made sure there was a good smearing of grease on the hub b4 I put the summers on.

Anyone else have a similar experience?
 
smmra said:
Changed over to summer rubber last weekend. A half hour job turned into a 3 hour debacle. The winter steelies were stuck to the hub. No amount of knocking would get them off. (pissed) As a last resort I spayed a small amount of WD-40 on the hub, hand tightened the lugs and drove around, did a few hard stops and corners. When I got them back up on the jack it still took a couple of whacks to get them dislodged. Needless to say, I made sure there was a good smearing of grease on the hub b4 I put the summers on.

Anyone else have a similar experience?
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I've started taking the car to the dealership for them to swap the Winter/Summer wheels. It costs me $15 for all 4 wheels which is a bargain so I haven't had to deal with this problem.
Anthony
 
Crap. I was planning on switching back to my stock wheels/Toyos next week. Thanks for the heads up.
 
Winter Rims

A little smear of wheel bearing grease on the hub and wheel centre will prevent rust from locking the rim to the hub - particlarily if your winter driving is in areas where they use salt on the roads ! (yes)
 
Solution:
Use a piece of wood, about 2X2 and wedge it in between the wheel spoke and rotor. Pry a little and it just pops right off. Easy as cake. The wood doesn't damage the rotor at all either.

No amount of hitting the tires would get mine off. I even hit the tire with a sledge hammer! (old tires, were going to be replaced)
 
for the most stubborn that I have experienced with winters and steelies, when everything else has failed, you may have to reach for the old trust-worthy ... torch
just pre-heat that steel lip, and 1 strike with the hammer is all that you will need.
 
Torch..or use the wood pry bar trick. I had to drop kick mine once..was scared the car would fall off the jackstands. Anyways..Liquid Wrench helps too.just spray and let it sit for about 20 minutes.
 
FunkyBuddha said:
Torch..or use the wood pry bar trick. I had to drop kick mine once..was scared the car would fall off the jackstands. Anyways..Liquid Wrench helps too.just spray and let it sit for about 20 minutes.
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When swtiching to my steelies before this winter, the stockies required some awfully strong mule-kicking this year. I thought the same thing, I was going to boot it off the jack, lol.
 
The first time I personally rotated the tires, the same thing happened to me.
I put a length of 2x4 across the lower part of the tire/rim and hit it with a mini-sledge until it broke free.

...Cleaned the hub with a stiff wire brush and coated it (and the rotor hat) with anti-seize.
 
My previous car did this to me, one of the winter tires stuck on. I sprayed "Liquid Wrench" all over the wheel, whacked it, drove around and braked hard, etc. Nothing loosened it. I finally took it to the shop right by me, and watched as the tech took it off with what looked like no effort at all, and gave me a funny look once he was done. I choose to believe that I finally loosened it up, not that I was nuts or something. Anyway, antisieze gets put on every time, and no issues since.
 
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