Hi Guys,
I was helping a friend trying to get a locking nut out of a wheel hub on his car and we've tried drilling it but with no avail.
I was thinking we should buy a very high quality drill bit that will penetrate it, since its some sort of very hard steel. We've managed to drill it all the way through until we got to drill bit size 7.5mm and now it will not budge. We almost killed the drill we had (big black&decker) as it started smoking! and the nut caught fire later on too lol! Its proving to be a real b*tch.
Could any of you suggest where i can get specialist tools as such? if not could you suggest an alternative method to get this nut out of the hub?
We had another suggestion along the lines of finding a drill piece that is of a cone shape (slightly), and it creates a thread in whatever you are drilling it through. Once you get it to the very end it should eventually start unscrewing the nut that you're trying to remove. Has anyone heard of something like this before? And if so, where do you think we'd be able to buy it?
I'd apreciate any help on this as we're quite stumped! This friend of ours had a drifting accident and it bent the arms holding the wheel, and it seems as if its bent this bolt too, since all the other bolts can come out except this one (which happens to be the damn locking nut!). And we cant move the car anywhere in this state either!
I was helping a friend trying to get a locking nut out of a wheel hub on his car and we've tried drilling it but with no avail.
I was thinking we should buy a very high quality drill bit that will penetrate it, since its some sort of very hard steel. We've managed to drill it all the way through until we got to drill bit size 7.5mm and now it will not budge. We almost killed the drill we had (big black&decker) as it started smoking! and the nut caught fire later on too lol! Its proving to be a real b*tch.
Could any of you suggest where i can get specialist tools as such? if not could you suggest an alternative method to get this nut out of the hub?
We had another suggestion along the lines of finding a drill piece that is of a cone shape (slightly), and it creates a thread in whatever you are drilling it through. Once you get it to the very end it should eventually start unscrewing the nut that you're trying to remove. Has anyone heard of something like this before? And if so, where do you think we'd be able to buy it?
I'd apreciate any help on this as we're quite stumped! This friend of ours had a drifting accident and it bent the arms holding the wheel, and it seems as if its bent this bolt too, since all the other bolts can come out except this one (which happens to be the damn locking nut!). And we cant move the car anywhere in this state either!
) then 13+mm. this will see the head come off with the last cut, if it is prefectly central. the hardest part is keeping it central and sharpening the bits - even with my method the bits will usually need sharpening a couple or so times, especially the second and third sizes. sharpening drills is easy on a bench grinder with a little practice. other favourte bodges are welding on nuts and using specialist tools, but i guess you are saying this bolt is super tight?
