Nut Won't Come Off. What's Next?

[-Tom]

Trying to take two of these 17mm nuts off to install a BMC stopper. Soaked it in WD40, hammered it with a spanner. Used an adjustable spanner with a bit more leverage and now it's just rounding it off slowly.

What's next?

Edited May 14, 2014 by -Tom

[Ben C34]

Adjustable spanner is a fail.

It looks barely rounded. Good ring spanner and tap with hammer.

Or apply some heat to help out and teach buy who is the boss

Edited May 14, 2014 by Ben C34

[Plattsy]

never ever ever use adjustable spanners.

[Ben C34]

never ever ever use adjustable spanners.

Unless you actually do want to f**k it up.

They aren't called nut f**kers for nothing!

[Plattsy]

hahahaha love it.

bens right. ring spanner and a hammer.

[-Tom]

Ring spanner + hammer + heat didn't work.

Nut splitter up next?

[Ben C34]

Ring spanner + hammer + heat didn't work.

Nut splitter up next?

Because of nut f**ker.....

Yes, sounds like it's time to cracking some nuts.

[Plattsy]

i dont get how it didnt work?!

it would either undo or snap the stud?!?!

[chus13]

Heat the sucker up some more. There is nothing that heat can't fix.

[Plattsy]

id be swinging on the f**ker.....

[-Tom]

I think it might be the cheapie set of ring spanners I have. They bend a bit.

Just gonna take it to a mates place. He has a long ass 17mm spanner that might work.

[djr81]

Get comby spanner. Join the ring spanner end of another spanner to the open end of the first one for extra leverage. Grunt a bit. Job done. Win.

Or do the hammer trick on the end of the spanner if you are worried about rounding it futher.

[75coupe]

Yep heat it up will work, or use a mig to weld a bead on it, thatll heat it up too

[Hornet2572]

Heat + Breaker-bar that sonova...

[Trex]

As everyone else has said... It needs a good 'shock' to get it loose.

Good socket

Breaker bar

Jack bar as an extension

Quick jolt

Unscrew

Lefty loosy?

[AngryRB]

get a socket and rachet on it and a long bar over the top for leverage and it will come off easy, sometimes nuts need a a meter long bar to sort them out, done this many times, bastards nuts are tight. Or ring spanner with big long bar overtop for big leverage if fits better in tight space.

Edited May 14, 2014 by AngryRB

[Ants]

Il be damn.

Get hold of a welding machine, put another nut of the same size, weld it together at the end and then use a spanner of the right size (looks like a 10 btw) and remove it.

[jjman]

get an imperial ring spanner on it. it will 'almost fit'. make it fit by hammering it onto the nut.

then use the aforementioned leverage/breakerbar techniques.

[Mikha1]

Ill go with the nut splitter option or go at it with a chisel and a hammer to split it. Have done many a strut top nut with this technique

[Missileman]

Nothing wrong with shifting spanners, so long as you have a bit of skill and use your common sence, I used one to change all my brake lines to braided, and replace the master cylinder, Not one rounded nut.