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How do you remove the locking lug nuts from a 1989 Pontiac Grand Prix if you have no lock socket to put on it?
I have found no lock sockets in the scrap yards. I am told dealer has them. I am also told MAC has a tool that turns on the stud and mills down the nut. Knowing MAC it would be expensive. I found I could take a 3/8" drive spark plug socket a 12 point socket (the kind with a 3/4" head on the drive end) and a rusty old set of feeler guages. Cut several of the old guages in half and stuff them all together on one side of the socket. Stick them behind the rubber insert that fits over the spark plug. This will hold the shims in place. It will take about an 1/8" of shim, add more or less as needed. Hold the socket with vise grips so you do not hammer on your fingers. Drive it over and onto the lock nut. Be carefull to wear safety glasses. Hammer it on tight. Now take a 4 way lug nut tool (tire iron) and slowly turn counterclockwise. If it slips take the vise grips and wiggle it off and add more shim. Try again. Start with less shim and add more until it fits, too much shim might break the socket. Just do not give it a quick jerk, apply even pressure as you turn. Once loose use the tire iron to wiggle the socket back and forth to loosen the socket, pull it off with the vise grips, then unscrew the lug nut by hand. This works.
all i did on mine was take a 4 way find a size on it that looks like it would fit on there if you were to hit it with something and hit it with a hammer and once its on there give it a turn and it should come loose it worked for me once it is loose wiggle the 4 way off of the locking lug and move on to the next one
if you can put a pairof vise grips on the nut. then stand on the vise grips. you will have to replace the nut but you can get it off
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