Breaking Lug Nuts for Changing Front Coil Springs on a Ford Taurus

Video Transcript

"In this step we're going to demonstrate the proper service procedure for breaking loose your vehicles lug nuts and jacking up the vehicle. What I have here in front of me is my four way, my preferred tool for breaking loose lug nuts. Just being that it comes with four different sizes, and they are the four most common. This one takes a nineteen millimeter, I'm going to take and slip it on there, and just begin breaking them loose. Now you're not going to want to take and put a whole bunch of turns on these lug nuts, just being that if you do if you loosen them up excessively that wheel make cock and damage the studs or even break them. Go just enough to get them loose. Alright right there that's plenty good enough. From here I'm going to take my hydraulic floor jack, and flip it right underneath the pinch well. It's the factory lift point for this vehicle. We're just going to take and jack it high enough so I got enough room to slip my jack stand underneath it and work on the vehicle safely. Alright, that should be plenty high enough. That is the proper service procedure for breaking loose your lug nuts and jacking up your vehicle."