 Hey everyone, Shaper1000 here. Sorry about the wind, but this time we have to be outside. We got a problem with one of these lug lug nuts here. Problem is they got these caps on them. We call them acorn caps. Just a chrome cap that goes on top of the actual nut. And if you don't, you know, if you take them off quite a bit, they just start rounding off. I got four of them off. This one, I'm going to show you how to get off. That cap is spinning inside there. So stick around and I'll show you how to take that off of there. Okay guys, so again, sorry about the wind. It was raining a little bit ago. Now I had this one here. Now you will scuff your rim up. There's nothing you can do about it. You can go buy them special nuts that are made for this. They will scuff your wheels up too. I'm not using one of them. I'm using everyday tools such as a chisel. Try to get the smallest one you can and a hammer. And you might need a punch, and I'll show you why here in just a minute. Maybe even a pair of vice grips, pliers. If you're really strong, you can use pliers. So I'll show you what it looks like. What you're gonna have to do. See, there's the actual lug nut right inside there. So you got to peel this back kind of like a banana. So you can get a socket on there. So you can get onto some steel. This ain't, well, it's metal. It's not steel. So that's what you're going to have. That's why it'll kind of... You're gonna nick your wheel up, but there's nothing you can do about it. Sometimes if you take your time and go real easy, but we're talking several hours worth of work, not to scuff this wheel, you can get them sometimes, but most of the time you're gonna scuff your wheel. I kind of missed and got a little ding down here in this Chevy. I think I did that. Might not have, who knows. This one just start in the center. Make you a hole, like I see that hole right there. Spread it out. This is where we're gonna take this and we're gonna try to get something out here where we can grab a hold of it and kind of start peeling it back. And this is what you're gonna do. And then you're gonna want to cut down the side. Sometimes if you get a cut down the side, you can peel the whole thing out, which is good. But this one will not because it kind of mushrooms around kind of mushrooms around that. Just spinning inside there. So and it kind of sucks because these wheels are in excellent shape for being almost 13 years old. You know, and you're just gonna want to kind of peel that out of there. Now let's try to get this one peeled up. Yeah, sometimes if you can get a hold of them, sometimes they'll pull out, but most of the time they won't. So that's when you got to get in here and be real easy. And try not to get on you know, the ridge part. Try not to get on the pointy part here because that's what you're gonna grab on to. Try to get on to the flat spot of that nut. I've seen guys using those. See, I just dinged that up there because my chisel is the smallest cutting chisel I've got. I've seen guys use those them those sockets and stuff that's made for these. Now I've seen them they'll put a wheel on. They'll intentionally, you know, they'll say look this works fine, but what if this happens? They'll intentionally strip it out and of course it'll take it right out. Well, it was just off 10 seconds ago. These have been on there. I don't know how long they get moisture inside of here and you know, they can rust up real good. So you know, it's it's not a it's not a fair review for us. I had a set of them one time. I used them once and it didn't work. So I ended up doing what I'm doing now. It's been a few years ago. Maybe they've perfected them now. I don't know. Wow piece of limb almost hit me. Maybe they perfected them better. I don't know but I mean and I did what they did. I intentionally, I intentionally stripped one out and yeah, it brought it right out but I just had the damn thing off, you know, I seen a guy take a lug nut off and kind of ground it to what was almost round and put it back on. Well, first of all, you can't get it back on tight enough if it's almost round because of strip. Second of all, you could probably done it with a pair of pliers and he's using it. See, look how easy that is. Look how that works. Yeah, it was just off 10 seconds ago. These ain't ain't been off. I know since we've had the damn car I know one of them was loose Right after we got it, we took it to Homa Sassa, Florida to go camp and I noticed one of them was loose. That's when I noticed my my tire tool wouldn't fit. None of these. None of them would fit these. So we just ran into a local tire shop and said, look man, can you get this tighten for me and turned out there was three of them loose and he tightened them up. I think he used a 23 on them and he said, now, you know, I'll get them tight for you, but I don't want to put them up to spec because, you know, you might not ever get them off. I said, that's fine and they've been fine ever since. I mean, they haven't come loose, but I just thought today, you know, while monkey's recovering, I'll get I'll get on here and get these off here. See if I got some lug nuts that'll fit it and that way if we do have a flat, I know I can get it off of there. You know what I mean? Because I know we're going to have to she'll have to do a follow up. She's got to go. She'll have to go back down to Orlando again. I don't want to you never know you run over something on the road. You get a flat. I'd never I wouldn't be able to get this off here. And we didn't have the money to get a tow or to have a service truck come out, you know, and that kind of always sucks having to pay for something that you can do yourself at home, but you just didn't have the tools. So yeah, I wouldn't have been able to get this off alongside the road. So kind of, you know, worried me the whole time we were gone. If we get a flat and if we do it probably be this one, you know, known, known to luck people have. Okay, so I've got this down here a good ways. You're going to want to get your socket on there as far as you can get it. So it doesn't strip out more, but nine times out of 10, this will work. If they're rusted on real bad, I have cut them out with torches because these magnesium wheels, you can do that. It kind of discolors it sometimes it'll ruin the wheel, but you have to do what you have to do. And if it's a customer's car, you have to let them know, look, you know, I may screw your wheel up and I can't be held responsible for you know, it looks like I'm putting that on wrong, but it's two different sizes. See? All right, so now we're going to put her little thing in there. All right, let me back out. Let me back out a little bit here. Let's see if we can get this off of here. I almost did that on the first one I took off. So there it is. A little bit of time. Spend more time than I did. You won't screw your wheels up as bad as I did, but once the sink's cleaned up, going down the road, no one is going to know it anyway. So all right, now I got to find some lug nuts. I also want to check some stuff out while I'm here. This thing's acting funny. That's another video though. Stick around. So this big box of lug nuts, I should find one in there I need, right? Yeah, I thought the same thing. Nope, but I got an idea. Okay, here's my idea. I don't know why them smaller on the outside than on the inside. I thought they were stripped, but they're not. Now I see someone has used anisees on this, which is great. I'm going to use grease, but I'm not going to use penetrating oil, like I'm not going to use WD-40 because after a while, guys, that stuff, that's be honest, it evaporates. So I'm going to put a little bit of grease on here. Now I've got two of these and I remembered. I just happened to remember that guy that tightened these wheels for us, grabbed us, grabbed me a couple of these and said, that's all I can find that I can give you, but there's two for you because there was two that were worse than the other ones. I said, oh man, I appreciate you. Didn't charge us a dime. Yeah, I was figuring, you know, 20-25 bucks I'd give him, but he said, no, no, just take those. He said, not a problem. So what I think I'm going to do is I'm going to take three of these. I'm going to put on here. I'm going to get my cut-off wheel. I'm going to kind of score this down through here, down the side, and I'm going to peel that away so I can end up with my nut, my regular steel nut. So that's what I'm going to do. So let me get you set up for that. And then I'll show you how. Yeah, just like I said, I'm just going to, just going to make a slice right up through here. Try not to get in the metal, of course, as much as possible. I'm just going to, or the steel. I may even be able to just go around here and that'll slide off. Let me see what I can do and I'll, I'll, I'll show you how I end up deciding to do it in case you have to do this too. Okay guys, that's what I'm going to do. I started grinding there. I don't want to use a cutting wheel if I don't have to. So I'm going to try to grind this a little bit to where I can get a slice in it and cut that off of there. I got a couple I can mess with. So if I screw something up, I'm not real worried about it. Yeah, it looks like it's going to work. And then I'm just going to peel that, peel that around there. And then I can slide this cap off of here. Let's see if I can get a cut on it here. Yeah, yeah, that's going to work. I have to get a pair of gloves. I keep hitting my finger. Okay, so starting to come around now. Yeah, see that there? Probably do it in the vice, but I figured I'd just do it out here on the car. That's exactly next time I'll go that way with it. So that way it tightens up more. Just start ripping it. Yeah, that'll work. I'll keep peeling on this. That's what they do. Because they want them to look pretty, but that's a cheap way of doing it. All right guys, way too big now. Now we can use a regular one, which is 13, 16ths. Just like that. Don't worry about if you're doing this. Let me show you here. Don't worry about if you get this ground down a little bit too far, that little ridge. That ridge ain't what holds your wheel on. This does. This ridge just holds a stupid cap on. So I'm going to do the other ones. I think I'm getting cold. I'm going to do the other ones, and I'll be back with you when we put the wheel on. Okay, we're getting ready to put the wheel on. I just got high-temperature barren grease here. I'm going to put some on here on each one. Like I said guys, you know, if you're doing this for a customer, a lot of times it's cheaper for them just to go ahead and, you know, cut that wheel off or whatever you got to do. Because by the time you spend three or four hours at over $100 an hour for labor to save that one wheel, you know, that's something really rare and you really want to, but it's like, you know, what can you buy a wheel for? You know what I mean? So it's like you tell them, look, I can do that for you, but it's just going to cost more, you know, more than what the wheels worth to try to save it. Same here. I'm not going to, even though it's mine, I'm not going to spend four or five hours try to try not to scuff this wheel up. I can buy this wheel for, what, $150? New cameras in my way guys. So yeah, just, you know, where do you stop on it, you know? Especially a lot of times the wheel's already scuffed up and ruined like that because the other person trying to get them off, you know? Now these two gold ones here, they're a different size, but I got both sizes in the truck, so I won't have an issue if I have a flat now, you know. And these are just going to run until I can get the money to put new lug nuts on here. Did I not do enough? Oh, that's right. I got six on here, not five. All right. Well, okay, I'm going to go ahead and do another one. And I'll be back with you guys. It's thinking I have five. That's right. This is a six wheel lug. Hang on. Six lug wheel. All right, we're back. Wheel tightened up. Put this around. I know they're ugly, but what are you going to do, you know? When this is all you got right now, you don't have money to get, you know, to get what you need, sometimes you got to reuse. I'm just going to pack a little bit of that in there since this is in the open elements. It's just temporary, guys. You know what they say about that. The most permanent thing is temporary, which kind of is true, but yeah, I will get new lug nuts for you. You know what I'm going to do? I'll probably get, let's see, I need 24 of them. So I'll probably just get them all, just get a kit and I'll make sure they're not the caps. I will make sure they're just regular steel lug nuts. You know, I'm sure they'll be chrome, but I'm not putting these caps back on here. Just ain't going to do that. So that way it keeps a little bit out. I'll wipe the excess off. See, these wheels are coated. So I mean, I can probably maybe take these off some time and really buff that out some more, but I'm not going to worry about it. It's an everyday driver. We're not restoring this car. Yeah, I want it to look as nice as I can for her, but at the same time, again, where do you stop? You know, where do you stop on something like this? It's just, yeah, it's just one of them things. You got to stop somewhere. I mean, is it an everyday driver or do you want to keep it pristine all its life or all your life? Well, yeah, you want to, but at the same time, if it's going to be your everyday driver, that's not going to happen. You can keep it in decent shape and I do. I keep our vehicles up, but you know, at the same time, you can't make it, you're not going to, you're not going to make it look like brand new all its life, especially when you started with a used car. We got lucky it's one owner, but it does have some issues. Like, well, shoot, I took this wheel off to check the axle and everything and okay, well, I'll just, I'll do that tomorrow. That's another day, but it kind of, you know, the older four-wheel drives, when you kick them in four-wheel drive and you make a turn, like a sharp left or right turn, you feel it don't, don't, don't. And if you're on new pavement, you'll hear it squealing like that. It's kind of what it's doing. It's not supposed to do that. It is a four-wheel drive, but it's all-wheel drive. So, yeah, like, like right now, this car is in part, but as you can see, I can still turn this wheel. I hear something up front there, but it's just a weird thing. I'm not too concerned about it because it is all-wheel drive. You know, if anything, I can pull this rear driveshaft and run front-wheel drive around here if I have to. That's not an issue. Guys have done that for years. I went on to a couple forms and there were some guys said, some couple guys said, yeah, me too. I've been running for a couple years like that until I get the money to buy the rear end because if this needs anything more than a couple axles, I'm not going to rebuild that rear end. I can buy the whole differential axles and everything for 500 bucks with a year warranty. I'll go that route. But, yeah, that looks doesn't look as pretty, but right now I don't care. It's functional and I don't have to worry about, you know, getting flat and, you know, she just had an operation. She'd be sitting in this car, you know, for however many hours. And then, like I said, we didn't have the money to call somebody anyway. I don't know what we would have done, you know, get a ride home and get the tools I needed because I pretty much knew what I needed to take this off with. So, all right guys. Anyway, that's how you get those, your lug nuts off that have the cap. Now I'm going to throw these, I saved the better ones in case I need to, you know, stuff too, yeah. So I saved these two, the worst ones, the ones I took the caps off of. So I saved these two, I'll put them in the glove box. That way if I need them, I got them, but I don't think I will until I get new lug nuts for, like I said, I'll just get 24, put them all on. At the same time, I don't even have to jack it up. If you take one off at a time and put it back on, take another one off, put it back on, you don't have to check these up. So, all right, so that's, that's how you remember the ones with the caps. Now if you got a regular steel lug nut that's stripped, you know, you're going to have to heat and use torches on it, you probably will ruin the wheel, but there's nothing you can do about it. Usually what you do then is start in the center with your torch. Also what you can do if you have open ones like these ones are, you can drill into the center and keep going bigger and bigger with your drill bit. Drill that out. That, that works a lot of times, nine times out of 10, but if, you know, so like a regular lug nut, but if you have one of these, you may have to torch it. If you have one of these, that's not the cap, that's a regular steel one. I'll tell you what I've done before. If they're sticking out, you can grind this off flat and you'll see, you'll see the center and you can, you know, because you can't, it's hard to center punch that when it's rounded like that and get your drill bit straight, but if you grind it off flat and center punch it, you can do the same thing. You got to take your time because if you get it off crooked, you can be screwed and then you will have to use torches, but if you don't have torches, I don't and I did it. So yeah, that's, that's for the caps. So there you go guys. Appreciate you watching. Shea Bearer the Myth of Man Legend. Gone for now. Thanks for all the well wishes for monkey. She's doing fine. She's still in her recuperating. She's a little sore, but her initial pain, the reason why she had that done is gone. All gone. She can move her arms and everything. So she's feeling pretty good today. So all right guys, I'm going to get my mess cleaned up here. I'll see you in the next one. We'll see you soon. Shea Bearer the Myth of Man Legend. Bye bye guys and take care.