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Remove Lug Nuts to Fix a Flat Tire

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Summary: Remove lug nuts from the wheel, being careful not to strip the heads of the lug nuts. Learn to remove lug nuts to fix a flat tire from an auto mechanic in this free auto repair video.

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By Mitch Jones
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Mitch Jones has been working on cars as a hobby and made it into a career over the past 11 years. Jones specializes in European vehicles, but can fix most problems on any make and...read more

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"Our next step is actually removing the lug nut; lug nuts. So, what you want to do, depending on whether you have the conventional style, you find your proper fitting to remove your lug nuts from the wheel. So, what you want to do once you have them loosed up while you're on the ground. This is probably the easiest step so you know you just take your time and remove each lug nut. You know, once you get it loose you don't really need the four way tool or whatever tool you're using. You just remove each lug nut in the same fashion. Now, sometimes this may get hard if your, the lug nuts have gotten cross threaded because it makes it to where they don't move as freely as they are moving right now; as you can see. So, you remove all of the lug nuts. Some wheels have five or six or more lug nut holes to them. The car we're doing only has four. So, depending on the application you may have to remove more than four lug nuts and so on and so forth. So, once you have all the lug nuts removed you just simply, you remove the tire and place it out of the way. There you have removing the lug nuts and tire."

eHow Article: Remove Lug Nuts to Fix a Flat Tire

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