Wheel Lock Help

[Jeremy6612]

I lost my wheel lock after all these years. I can't find one that fits and I don't want to force it off. Where can I buy one. I'm running out of places to look. The ones I have bought have been too small to fit around the lug nut.

 

[Phirebeard]

https://www.harborfreight.com/universal-locking-lug-nut-removal-set-58535.html Local auto parts stores should also have them, possibly as loaner tools. You could also take it to a tire place, they should be able to get them off.

 

[Burla]

You can hammer a 12 point socket on it, you will need a breaker bar instead of impact drill, the impact drill will likely just spin it depending how tight it is. Just try a 26 27 0r 28 mm socket. If it is real tight have a bar you can put over breaker for leverage.

 

[turkeybird56]

You can hammer a 12 point socket on it, you will need a breaker bar instead of impact drill, the impact drill will likely just spin it depending how tight it is. Just try a 26 27 0r 28 mm socket. If it is real tight have a bar you can put over breaker for leverage.

He's gonna have to either really lube and hammer on a 27, or try a 28 and see if tight enuf, since his measurement in the middle, he may get lucky. There are also (to the OP) all sorts of You tube Vids on how to do this. Locking lugs keep honest PPL honest, LMAO.

 

[cashman070]

I used a socket as well and hammered it on - then used a breaker bar to get it off - worked very well - looks like your gonna have to get new locking nuts anyway

 

[PoMansRam]

Looks like a genuine McGard.

I used to work there many years ago. Great company.

Look up their website and see if you can contact someone from customer service. A good pic or two of the lock and they'll be able to set you up with a replacement key.

 

['06 Ram 2500]

Tighten the other lug nuts slightly to take some pressure off the locking lug then apply the right sized easyout and it should come off easily.

 

[PoMansRam]

If it's a McGard, the heads are heat treated and very hard. A quality easy out might work, but it's going to take some doing. Probably better off welding a standard lug nut to the face of it.

 

[DB Cooper]

 

[Joshua Collins]

Easiest thing to do would be to go to the closest ram dealer and their service department has a set of all of them. Find the one that fits and remove them. If you want to keep them get the number off it and order a replacement key.

If not go to the parts store and by the hammer on socket and remove them as suggested above.

 

[Dean2]

If you can't locate a replacement key, any good tire store can spin those off pretty fast. Then just buy a new set. Messing around with home grown solutions isn't worth the time and effort.

 

[GTyankee]

Some shops don't mess with it

They will over tighten the locking nut & snap the Lug Stud off

I don't know if it would snap aluminum rims, if conditions were just right

 

[srfotu]

I bought a truck with no key and I just found on of those small local tire shops and paid them 50 bucks to get the locks off. I had to try a couple shops cause a few didn’t want to touch it but it didn’t take long to find one that would do it. They jammed a socket on there and broke it loose.

 

[Alan N Stuart]

I lost my wheel lock after all these years. I can't find one that fits and I don't want to force it off. Where can I buy one. I'm running out of places to look. The ones I have bought have been too small to fit around the lug nut.

This video on YouTube shows how to remove multiple types of wheel locks.

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[Marshall]

I may have a spare from my 2010, that was in a wreck I have one for my 2014 Sport 1500 but not home right now, in Canada

 

[Marshall]

Btw I have never used the locks

 

[Joseph Godvin]

Dealer had a universal key set, tried them all till one fit, took the number off the key and ordered a replacement !! Done !!

 

[Dean2]

That is good news. Luckily you still had the OEM locks on it.

 

[Cruzrs]

All I have to add would be, after you get a replacement, I used a lenth of solid copper wire and threaded through the lock in the shape of a blanket pin to fasten it to the jack underneath the passenger seat it doesn't go missing

 

[Marshall]

I run custom wheels and ice tires in the winter , and the wheels come with custom nuts, with a special socket.
Switch to summers in March, In Canada thing you know.
the tire shop guy kept the socket that goes with them, after the switch over.
Went back , and they have new ones in stock , so did not have to hunt throu tool boxes.