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I went outside tonight and the tyre was level with the ground so I thinks this is called a flatty, which direction do I need to turn the nut bits that hold on the wheel to remove it. I have tried both ways but it wont move, is there something else I need to do also.
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The wheel nuts need to be turned anti-clockwise. If they wont turn in this direction it is probably because they have been put on with a air-gun and they will need some brute force to loosen them!!
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The wheel nuts need to be turned anti-clockwise. If they wont turn in this direction it is probably because they have been put on with a air-gun and they will need some brute force to loosen them!!
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Put a length of pipe over the handle end of your wheel brace so you can get more leverage.
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Also, as well as using some sort of pipe as an extended handle, remmeber to jack the wheel off the ground before undoing the nuts. Jack it up until it leaves the ground then drop it a tiny bit just so the tyres rubs the ground and won't turn instead of th
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try taking the hub cap off !
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try taking the hub cap off !
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Just about everything in Australia if not the world loosens by turning it anti-clockwise even your kitchen taps.
Remember the 'right hand rule', hold your right hand with thumb up and fingers curled, if you turn a screw/nut/etc. in the direction the
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The only exception to that rule that I can remember are Valiant wheelnuts. One side of the car has a left hand thread while the other side has a right hand thread so you always turn the wheelbrace towrds the same end of the car (but I can't remember wheth
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All the Chrysler stuff had left hand threads on one side at one stage, also a lot of stuff like the mini buses (Toyotaetc.) have left hand threads. We were stuck in a mini bus on the Nullarbor for about 2 hours while the driver tried to undo the wheel nut
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Yep that was my brother in laws trick for new apprentices in his workshop, 'go and rotate the tyres on the work ute would you' was the request (was a VJ valiant). He he that got em every time, one side no problem, the other well.... poor things!! :)
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