I've tried Soooo many times to get it off, and believe me i even stood on the wrench that i was using trying to get it free, but not even a budge. it is the rear passenger side tire. And not moving an inch. what do i do. Help please!! i dont get to drive it, the tire is completely flat.
Impact gun maybe? If you could find someone with one and a small portable compressor or an air tank.
Try an energetic squirt of penetrating oil into the lug recess to allow the oil to seep into the threads of the bolt, and then take a large johnson bar with 4ft of black pipe over the handle- steadily turn.
If everything one can possibly think of fails, there's always the extreme remedy of centre punching the bolt head, drilling a 1/8" hole STRAIGHT thru, and then trying a screw extractor. When that fails, drilling the bolt out may be the only fix.
Is it an original long bolt or the replacment shorter type? The long bolts reach to the outer edge of the wheel. If its a long bolt be very carefull. They are easy to break, and once broken they're pretty much impossible to get out. Come to think of it, if the short bolt breaks you've probably got just as much of a mess because of the flanged seat on the bolt. But the short bolts don't break as easy. If the bolt breaks than you will most likely have to destroy the wheel to get it off. There isn't any pratical way to drill out the flange on the bolt that holds the wheel on. You'll have to drill into part of the wheel.
I would think you will have better luck with an impact gun than a long breaker bar. But don't hold the gun on the bolt for more than a few seconds. Give it short blips at full power. Sometimes giving it a blip in the clockwise direction first helps break the rust.
If you feel that you can't get it off yourself, let a pro do it. Two years ago, one of the lugs on my 190 was very stubborn. After 5 minutes of pulling and yanking, my friend came in and he stepped on the wrench putting his body weight on it. It caused the head of the lug to snap right off. Had to take it to a pro to get whats left out of the hub. Wish I just took it to a pro in the first place with such a stubborn bolt.
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1990 Mercedes-Benz 560SEL; California version(soon to be European), extra factory options, many AMG bits
1991 Mercedes-Benz 190E; European version, AMG factory tuned In for restoration: July 1, will be ready by October 1, 2008
i've used a blow torch before to get a rusted bolt free,
heating it up and cooling it down must crack the corrosion holding it fast.
Not sure if its appropriate here though alomst certainly mess up the laquer on the wheel, and with there being so much metal acting as a heat sink it would take ages to get it hot enough.
Use PB blaster. Let it soak in. Get a long metal pole-one that the rachet handle can fit into. It should come right off. I saved a 5 foot section that I got at Lowes for this.Harbor Freight also has breaker bars-2 or 2.5 ft that can help. They are usually $10 or so. Too bad you don't have an impact gun.
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Mike
1990 Mercedes Benz 300 SEL
2001 Mercedes Benz ML320
1999 Mercedes Benz SLK230
1986 Porsche 911 Carrera
I've tried Soooo many times to get it off, and believe me i even stood on the wrench that i was using trying to get it free, but not even a budge. it is the rear passenger side tire. And not moving an inch. what do i do. Help please!! i dont get to drive it, the tire is completely flat.
If all else fail, you can consider using a nut-cracker, if it is possible to fit one on. And if the bolt/stud is damaged in the process, you would have to get it replace, but that should not be too expensive.
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