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Doug
| | Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 01:57 pm: | 
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So I went to remove my wheel for the first time on my new Disco. The tire iron (came with vehicle) is too small to fit over the lug nut caps, so how do you pop those caps off?? My luck I'm going to get a flat now.
Pardon the retarded question, life has sure been different ever since I got rid of my Wrangler. |
p m
| | Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 02:04 pm: |
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Doug,
the lug nuts on the discos have some shiny cover on them. it gets banged up in the tire shops, and if the stock lug wrench is a bit tight, it won't fit.
IIRC, the stock lug wrench size is 27mm, try buying 28mm, or 1 3/32" socket. 1 1/8 may be a bit too big. or 12-point 27mm, it is a bit looser.
i don't even know where the stock lug wrench is...
peter |
Anonymous
| | Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 02:18 pm: |
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it'll fit.....use some muscle |
Doug
| | Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 03:50 pm: |
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Might sound gay, but if I bang the lug wrench onto the caps, they will get completely jacked up and wrecked. I kinda wanna maintain SOME level newness to the thing.
By the way, PETER, the stock lug wrench is under the back seat in a vinyl bag with the roof rack attachments.
So you are saying to just force the lug wrench onto the lug caps? |
Douglas Jones (Ozaukeedoug)
| | Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 03:54 pm: |
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I just banged a 27mm socket on to them with a mallet, use a 6 point socket and it'll form the caps right into shape!
And my name is Doug, also, so I wouldn't lie to you. |
Ho Chung (Ho)
| | Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 03:55 pm: |
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the caps dont' come off.
it sounds like your caps are deformed from using non-proper fitting size wrench?
or these are brand new lug nuts? |
Greg P. (Gparrish)
| | Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 03:57 pm: |
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My stock lug wrench was in the rear door pocket in a vinyl bag with jack handle and wheel chocks. Where and what are the roof rack attachments listed above? |
Doug
| | Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 05:20 pm: |
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The roof rack attachments are the cross bars that attach in between the already existing rails on your roof. The attachments I'm talking about would go in between the rails on your roof, to form a ladder pattern I-I
Kind of like that if you were looking down onto your roof. The rung of the ladder, so to speak, are the attachments I have under my rear seat in a bag. |
p m
| | Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 07:41 pm: |
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Doug,
one solution is to source older range rover lug nuts. they don't have that silly crown on them, and always fit in the 27mm socket.
speaking of where the stock lug wrench is, i never use it or never used any stock lug wrench on any other vehicle. If i drive the disco, it means it is going off the pavement or it's on a really long trip, so my toolbox is always there. and my wife wouldn't change the tire, anyways.
peter |
Steve H
| | Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 09:52 pm: |
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Doug,
I have the same problem with my '98. The stock lug wrench is not even close. I just got a 1/2" drive breaker bar and a 6 point socket (1 1/8" I think). |
Ron
| | Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 10:46 pm: |
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disco IIs do not come standard with the cross bars for the roof rack.
Also I think 98 and 99 DIs do not have them either.
Ron |
Steve
| | Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:33 pm: |
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Regarding wrenches and crossbars,
My 98 came with the crossbars, but I don't know about the lug wrench because I use a 1/2" socket and long handle wrench, they always work better than the stock wrenches anyway. That and my wife, who will change a flat, wanted a wrench she could use. |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Friday, April 19, 2002 - 09:40 am: |
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Ron, my '99 DI had the 3 cross-bars in the bag under the rear seat, along with the jack handle, the factory tire-iron, and a little tool for using to get the cross-bars back out of the rack, in case the buttons stick.
Lug size is 1-1/16" (off the top of my head, so check it, but that's the size on the 4-way lug wrench that I used on it).
The stock lug-wrench is crappy.... if the lug-nuts were tightened with an air tool, the stock wrench will twist instead of breaking them loose. I got a really beefy replacement one (like the blue one you see on AB's or RN's pages, but it was less at my usual Rover shop). I use the 4-way wrench when I was working on it, because it is easier to spin, and only used the regular one when I had a flat (once, had a NASTY nail in the factory Michelins).
FWIW....
-L |
Garrett #2
| | Posted on Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:40 am: |
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I use the factory lug wrench with the straight section of pipe for the bottle jack slipped over it as a leverage bar. It works great for me! Just make sure not to place the end used for releasing the bottle jack over the lug wrench b/c it has those slots cut out and you will bend those slots bad to the point that you won't be able to release the jack with it. Use the solid end of the pipe.
Good luck |
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