Posted by RedMF40 on October 22, 2020 at 08:26:11 from (172.58.188.48):
Ok, maybe you don't. But I do. So I was doing some routine maintenance on my Honda, went to take the wheels off. The little wheel-lock key wouldn't grab.
I looked, saw that the material inside that made it a key had broken off. It would never work. I'd had the car into a repair shop recently, so maybe they'd gone "Rambo" with the air wrench. Or maybe I did it. I don't know. Either way, the key wasn't going to take the wheel lock off.
I looked at the wheels. Who in the world would want to steal THESE? They are old alloy wheels with scuffs and curb rash and over 100K miles. No one would want them.
Since I had a full set of lug nuts from a previous parts car, I set about taking off all four wheel locks and replacing them with regular lug nuts. A socket should do it, but what size? Turns out a 3/4" 12-point socket fits right over the wheel lock. Just tap it on, tap tap tap. Go all the way or it'll slip off when you go to remove the lug nut.
Wheel locks came off, no problem. But you'll have to spend a few minutes extracting them from the socket. I put mine in the vice and used a good-sized drift. In this case one of those big nails or "spikes" like they use in landscaping did the trick. Good fit, no side-to-side movement. Small drift would not work, moved around too much.
Anyway, there is probably a specialized tool to accomplish the same thing, but this is how I did it with what was on hand. And you might end up tossing the 3/4" socket in the scrap pile afterwards since it gets pretty beat up. I chose an "orphan" that I was not too fond of, had come with a bunch of random tools I bought.
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