lawsoncl

Pittsburgh Pro is the Harbor Freight Tools (HFT) house brand.
https://www.harborfreight.com/9-pc-3...set-67897.html

dave1123

Those lug nuts you have are original OE parts and really suck! When I had that problem, I bought new ones the same and the caps loosened up the first time I took them off! Somewhere I have a bag of about 30 or so that are just collecting dust.

gat

Are you still working on this problem? A tire iron will have the two metric/standard and you can easily use whichever fits best.
Instead of using a jack handle to turn the wrench, breaker, tire iron, use the jacking mechanism vis the saddle.
As a worst come to worse situation. You could try to grind the studs' heads off, then pound them thru the wheel with a punch or drift pin inside to out.
I'm guessing that after this you'll put some anti-sieze on the lug studs and possibly new lug nuts.

lawsoncl

Uggg! Not going recommend that since he has the alloy wheels with deep-set lugs. I'd take it to a real tire shop and have them get the lugs loose before I go the butcher route. Seriously, a tire shop with the correct size 6-point socket and an impact will have them off in no time flat.

Spencer_P

Unfortunately I haven’t made it to harbor Freight yet. I need to get a tire iron as well.


As for the pb blaster I have applied it a couple times but I read it’s not good on rubber and I have brand new tires

Spencer_P

I know, I was saying that I don’t know what brand the sockets I have are

Dave51

No you don't. A 36" breaker bar with deep impact sockets works far better, and you'll look MUCH cooler doing it that way.

Spencer_P

Haha true.

Spencer_P

I’m going to HF today, can someone verify if these will work.


i need them by Friday if autozone doesn’t have any.

cruiser54

Have you tried smacking a deep 18mm socket on the nut?

Spencer_P

I just got a set of deep sockets, they’re all 19mm including the open ended one. The passenger front came off easily with the deep socket and breaker bar, the drivers front are giving some trouble, if you can see in the pictures some are deforming. So if these are indeed the two piece nuts the I assume it’s the cap breaking off, so do I just keep going and hope the cap breaks off? I need to drive the Jeep Saturday so I’m worried I’ll mess up or break a stud.

cruiser54

Pull the chintzy metal cover off and use an 18mm.

Spencer_P

Spencer_P

You make it sound easy

Spencer_P

Also if I can’t get new lug nuts by Saturday and I get all the caps off, will I be okay using the 18mm s under the cap?