View Full Version : Help! Can't pull out the front tries!


FrancisK
10-01-1999, 03:29 PM
After I removed the five bolts, I can't pull the tires out from the mount.. Can some one tell me how to remove it? I've got a seven spoke sport rim.

98.5 2.8QTipS

christine s
10-01-1999, 03:50 PM
SURE all the lug nuts are removed?
Hmmm I seem to do it "ok" on my 99.5, but you've got to use your body weight against the tire to really yank it hard the first time you change tires. Wear cruddy work gloves to get some "stick" to the tire.

(experienced in changing tires 6 times in one day at the track....)

pauls
10-01-1999, 03:55 PM
Don't know what kind of tools you might have and it would be dangerous to hit the inside with a rubber mallet unless the car is solidly held off the ground. Without further info if I were in your situation I'd put the bolts all the way back in without tightening them and roll the car on the loosened bolts (not talking driving here just moving the car to see if the weight will break the corrosion loose) then try removing the wheels. If it doesn't work then I'd try again but be a little more vigorous rolling the car, like applying the brake lightly to perhaps jar it loose. You can get more and more vigorous with the brakes (within reason) until they come loose. If this procedure doesn't work with light brake application your going to have to get help.

Good luck
P

Bob Petruska
10-01-1999, 06:00 PM
Put bolts back in...loosen a few turns. Lower car to the ground. Push/rock the body sideways. That should loosen the wheels.

If not. Loosen the wheel bolts a few turns drive the car forward or backwards slowly and hit the brakes hard....that will do it also.

FrancisK
10-01-1999, 08:52 PM