LUG NUTS

LUG NUTS

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can I talk about me? Of course, it's your show.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Uh. Look, I'm gonna preface what I'm about to say
by saying I don't anticipate anybody feeling sorry for me,
and I don't want anybody to. But you know, there's
some things I gotta get off my chest. I'm a
fairly nice guy. I think I'm intense. I guess sometimes
I'm a bit surly in the morning, you know, and
get a little antsy in the mornings, and I don't
like to be pestered with. I don't like my routine

(00:26):
to be kind of messed up a little bit. But
you know, generally speaking, I just like, you know, I've
learned to be a friendly, nice guy, right, cordial, Yeah,
that guy you know, you know, and you know I
like hanging out with people, like doing things. But you
do something to me that's wrong. I'm gonna I'm gonna
remember it. I'm gonna remember that now. I don't know

(00:48):
who did this, and I don't really really care about
that because the fact that anybody would try to do
this for any reason ever really peeves me. I walk
up today, it was just an day. Got the car started,
it's warming up, right, You want to get the car
warmed up.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Oh for sure. Yeah, today's the day. You got to
get out there early, get that puppy started.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
But I got a remote start right now. Now, a
remote start, I don't have to see the car to
do it. I can hear that the car started, and
my garage in my driveway. I have a one car garage.
The car is in the garage. I have another car
in the driveway. And I'm looking you look down on
it right, like it's kind of below. I live on

(01:29):
a hill, so it's below where you know. I'm standing.
As I'm starting it, I can't really see down into
the car right. So you know what happens is I
sit in the car and I get ready to drive
to work to do my morning show today, and I'm like,
why is my back window open? My back passenger window,
it's open. And I tried to roll it up, and
then I recognized for a second, Oh, the window's just gone,

(01:51):
and there's glass all over the place inside the car. Oh,
and my center console is open and a bunch of
stuff is pulled out of it. Sitting in the passenger seat.
Oh no, I've been I've been robbed before. I stupidly
left a car unlocked, parked on the street in my
old college town, and I have an iPod stolen out
of my car. Once it's a good lesson, don't have

(02:13):
anything of value just sitting in your car. Right the
most valuable thing that's in my car is probably my sunglasses,
and I don't buy very expensive sunglasses for whatever it's worth.
So nothing was stolen out of it. But somebody decided
they were going to ruin my day by trying to
get into my car. And what was it overnight? Like
it felt like minus thirty or something like that.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, it got down well, the forecast said it's down
as cold as minus twenty six. I'm not sure where
it got last night. Right now, we're sitting at minus
twenty two win chill.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
It's crazy, right, that's the night you're gonna decide to
go carjacking. Like I thought, maybe like it was an
animal or something that you know, it's really cold out,
maybe an animal somehow broke in. There's no way the
center console would have been open and all that stuff
if like an animal was trying to get into my vehicle,
and what animal even things to do that? So it's
obviously a person that decided they were going to break
my window and try to get into my car. Now again,

(03:06):
I'm just I'm throwing this out there. I don't want
you know, I Like I said, if the person who
did this is listening to the radio and you knew
whose car that was, you know, congratulations.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
I appreciate your patronage.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Hopefully you know it was a waste of your time
and somebody a couple of blocks over also mentioned on
our neighborhood Facebook group, but they also had the same
thing happened to them. So I was the only one
on my block that I know of. But so what's
the thing that you do in that situation? Okay, So,
like I know that I have my back window, I
just drove to work. I mean, it's like I didn't

(03:39):
have time to address it. Then I just called my
wife and said, hey, this is a thing that happened.
I'll be home after my morning show and we can
come up with a game plan here. So what would
be the contingency plan for the time being while you're
trying to address that for me knowing that I have
to come back here today, you want to by tarp
it over? That is definitely one of the options. Gets

(04:00):
the duct tape, not duck car, but but tape in general,
and you know, some plastic or something. Yeah, yeah, what
else could you do? I'm asking, genuinely because I've never
done this before. You got to go out and get
some of that flex seal. No, no, no, no, I
don't want that. That that the flex seal is not
gonna help my car. They they good, good, good free
shout out to the flex seal guy at seen on TV.

(04:24):
I was thinking I could just drive my other car
for the time being. Does that makes sense?

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Right?

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, I gotta I got two cars. Well, I don't
for a while.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
We're waiting on figuring out if we can get this
window fixed, because somebody's got to have the right window.
All these cars have their own specific window. You gotta
have the right parts for the window, right, Okay, So
if that's happening, then how about we uh we address
you know, why do I get the other car? So
I called my wife on my way home from work
and I'm like, okay, so can you pull the car
out so I can just drive that back to work

(04:53):
while we address the and we can put plastic over
the window or whatever until we figure this out, right,
you know, she told me we can't because the right
front tire on the car is flat. Now this is
a car that she drove yesterday, so I know that
this wasn't a problem that was just sitting there and simmering.
This was a problem that apparently has happened overnight. And

(05:13):
this car was protected in the garage, so nobody came
in and just slashed that tire. But something was run
over because you can actively hear the air coming out
of the tire when you try to put air in it.
It's one of those so it's not even just like
can you put enough air in it just to get
it somewhere to get resolved.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
It's like, we have to change the tire.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
So while we're addressing that, I'm in my garage and
you know, but the two of us are kind of
tag team, and it's trying to figure out how to
change this tire. One of the lug nuts is stuck
on there. It won't it won't come off. It's like
stripping while I'm using the wrench. So I got the
other four lugnuts off. I can't get the fifth lug
nut to even loosen up, and I only have finite
amount of time and resources here to resolve this before

(05:52):
I have to come back to work, So eventually I
just punt on that. By the way, that vehicle also
has its tire sensors not working. Windshield has been cracked
on that thing for like six or seven years, and
I've just kept punting it down.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
You know.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
It's just like not an ideal situation for that. Oh
and the check engine line on that car just came on.
I've gotten a lot out of that car, so I
don't want to complain too much. That car is is older,
and I've kind of driven the wheels off of it,
so to speak. I've never had a car this long,
so I mean it's been a good girl, if you
know what I'm saying. But still it's got a lot
of problems. And now you're kind of into that mode

(06:25):
where it's like what do I do with this car?
Do I do I go and get all these things fixed,
or do I just say screw it, trade in for
whatever it's worth and start paying off another car?

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Like I'm I'm I'm, I'm in all of this.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Like my mode today is like this, So I'm just
in a generally just like foul mood. I had a
lot of things that were going really good for me.
But you throw in my dog having to get stitches
a couple of fridays ago for you know, running around
like a maniac and cutting her foot on something. Then
you know, I had another car problem with the car
that got its window knocked out, the check engine light.
I had to try to get that resolved, you know

(07:01):
what I mean. So you had that that was like
fifteen hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
You could say.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
A lot of that was just kind of like regular maintenance.
We've had the car for like four years now, so
it was due for some of that. But you know,
it was just like, Okay, now now I'm seeing, you know,
it's raining and pouring a little bit on me, and
I just wish I could be mad at somebody that reasonable.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Well, so it's a couple of tough circumstances, for sure,
What would you do?

Speaker 2 (07:26):
I mean, I I honestly thought about just like throwing
the uh that wrench that I was using to try
to get these lugduns so off. I was thinking about
throwing that at something, but you know I thought better
of it.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
You know, you do that, and now you got two problems.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
I already have two problems. Okay, you do that, now
you got three problems. Whatever the number was before it.
After you throw the wrench, it's gonna be another problem.
You're right, But I mean, I'd feel much better if
I just like, and I told you this. I did
boxing classes for a while, so I have boxing gloves
and like hand wraps and all this stuff. I need
a heavy bag that I can just start beating up
because that, I mean, that does release a lot of
the angry issues. I don't know what else to do, Like,

(08:02):
I don't know, and maybe somebody can email me e
mari ikfab dot com with how you deal with frustration.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
But yes, this is a.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
It's not great and this is bad timing to have
one of your windows smashed out, so minus ten degree
weather can just start sifting through your car even when
you're sitting in there, no matter how warm you try
to get it.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
I mean, come on, man, you get a little flex seal,
a little tarp.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
No, no flex seal, all due respect to the fine
folks of flex seal. Maybe a sham wow, that would
absolutely not help. How about just stuff a snuggie in there? Okay,
the next thing you're gonna do is say I need
to wash out the seats with toxy clean.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Is that what's next?

Speaker 3 (08:38):
You know what I would? I would do that just
to be just to be a charm and sure you
know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
I just I really feel like I feel like the
a scene on TV store has somehow made its way
into this studio today.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Get one of those skillets you can use in your bedroom.
I don't think that's a good idea. Maybe see if
that'll fit in the opening.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, well, uh, I'll get on I'll get you on
the horn with the people that run that store.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
You might need us Dadium Pal now the stadium Pow.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
We have already said we are not going to be
needing the Stadium Pal two seventeen. You know, near never
know if you try to drive the car that has
the messed up tire and try to get it to
the service shop without having to change it, which is
I guess an option we could consider. But I mean
in that situation, you might just be stuck in your
car for a while while the tow truck comes and
gets you. Because that sounds like a good idea. Oh oh,

(09:24):
you know what, I think I need to punch something,
is what I think no, yap up. Oh dude, take
it easy. I'm getting a little getting a little fiery today.
We've got a lot to talk about phone lines. Let's
just go ahead and open that up. I'm sure money
people are gonna call and say, hey, you think you're
the only guy that ever had bad stuff happened to you?
Stop talking about it, get dummy. Or if you have
an idea of how to remove a rustyal lugnut that

(09:46):
won't come off my car, feel free to let me
know on that for four h two five five eight
to eleven ten. Is that number? Four two five five
eight eleven ten. Hey, you know what it is a day?
It's a Tuesday. And we've already established Tuesdays pretty much
the worst day of the week already. My Tuesday just
happens to have been a little bit worse than usual.
And uh, well, we'll suffer through it together. I guess
on news radio eleven ten kfab and there he's stung. There,

(10:08):
Maybe you can help me out. Tracy's on a phone line. Tracy,
welcome into our show today. What do you got on
your mind?

Speaker 5 (10:14):
Well, I want to help my brother Iowa guy out. Anyway,
maybe you could get some of that window film like
we put on the windows at home, you know, with
the sticky tape and you put it around their heat
up with the blow dry.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
I can get you through for a couple of days,
keep you warm.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
I I okay, So here's what I ended up doing.
I have like very thin plastic like like plastic wrap
that we had on hand, and I did we were able,
and we just kind of stuffed it in the car
because I don't know if it's the cold weather or whatever,
but the tape wasn't working. So I did get a
little bit of like plastic just like inside the door
and just shut the door on it, so it's kind

(10:49):
of sealed to it. It's not perfect, but you know
what it it at least keeps the air out for
the most part.

Speaker 5 (10:54):
You know, you know, keep your cars in a long time.

Speaker 7 (10:57):
That's me.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
I want to drive and see how many miles like
get out of if I take care of it. Do
you save a little money in the end.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Too, Yeah, that's it's a good point. You know. I
think my wife loves that too.

Speaker 8 (11:07):
You know.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Once we paid off that car that I've had for
a long time, which was you know what, probably like
six years ago we paid it off or something like that.
I mean, it's a while ago. I mean it's been
nice not to have to have to pay a car
payment and just have the car, you.

Speaker 8 (11:22):
Know what I mean exactly.

Speaker 9 (11:24):
Well, you have a great day. I hope it gets better.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
But hey, thanks man, appreciate you. Mike's on the line. Mike,
thank you so much for listening to us today. What's
going on?

Speaker 6 (11:33):
Well, I just had kind of an opinion I could
offer to you about at least a security.

Speaker 8 (11:37):
Perspective, because oh yeah, it'd be good.

Speaker 6 (11:39):
I understand what it is like to have my vehicle
broken into and vandalized. Have you ever thought about checking out,
like getting a ring camera or like some kind of
camera surveillance system.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, yeah, I actually have. My my neighbors across the
street have one, and they show us videos all the time,
just stuff that they notice outside their yard, like either
creature or people approaching.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
So I've thought about that.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Fortunately, where my garage is versus where kind of my
front door is, those are not in the same place,
so I would not have coverage on that, so I'd
have to put another camera to see. But after this episode,
I mean, I definitely am looking into that. I mean,
like it'd be stupid not to at this point.

Speaker 7 (12:20):
Oh yeah, and for.

Speaker 6 (12:20):
The most part. I mean, there's a couple of different
brands you can go with, but I personally use Ring
And it's a little price you can run you one
hundred dollars or so just to get a camera. But
if you get a couple of them, you can fill
in those blind spots and that helps me sleep a
lot better at night.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, I think I think that's the route that I
need to go. We need to do a little bit
of shopping for that. So I am not as easy
a target on that from Mike. I appreciate the thought though.
Thanks for calling in.

Speaker 6 (12:45):
Yeah, no, you are welcome to have a good day, man.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah you too.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Do you have you had? Have you ever had something
like that? I have one that I put in my
house just so I can watch the dogs. I mean,
so it's like looking at my living room, you know
what I mean?

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Like it's just to monitor make sure my dogs are okay,
And I can see him in the living room. And
I guess if somebody decided they were going to break
into the front of my house, then I could see
you know, them walking in and walking out or whatever.
So I have that, but obviously, you know, maybe I
need to have one on the outside. I got a
bunch of emails coming into people helping me out with
this lugnut situation too, so, uh that that would be interesting.

(13:21):
Got Jimmy on the phone line, note four oh two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Jimmy, thanks for calling. What's going on?

Speaker 9 (13:26):
Yeah, you're you've got a broken window?

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (13:29):
Yeah, Oh, maybe you ought to call Meghan Hunt?

Speaker 1 (13:32):
What's that mean?

Speaker 9 (13:34):
Well, I don't know you in that blue dot area
in Omaha.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
I mean I live around blue dots.

Speaker 9 (13:40):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Well, it seems like they're
worried about everything but crime, So I don't know, a
lot of people get their windows broke out.

Speaker 8 (13:49):
I mean, I don't know, just just.

Speaker 9 (13:51):
Throwing it out there, not throwing it. Yeah, get your
window fixed. But maybe you ought to, I don't know,
call Meghan, see what you do, or maybe missed the cabanag.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, yeah, I appreciate the thought there, Jimmy.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
I yeah, thanks for calling.

Speaker 7 (14:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
I mean, as far as I know, our neighborhood has
been pretty pretty clear of this. I've talked to our neighbors.
They've lived there for over a decade and they never
had anything happen to them. So my best guess is
that this is a random act. You know, it is
what it is? What are you going to do?

Speaker 8 (14:22):
You know?

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Part of part of living and having your car on
the street in a big city. I suppose I've known
this to happen to other neighborhoods a lot worse than
anywhere around our neighborhood. But yeah, Matthew's on a phone
line four two, five, five, eight eleven ten. Welcome in, Matthew.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
What do you.

Speaker 10 (14:37):
Think You had a caller tell you about a security
cameras and stuff? Yeah, and my wife got some for
our house and it was like one hundred and sixty
bucks and that was a bit really and we have one, two,
we have.

Speaker 11 (14:54):
Like four or five.

Speaker 10 (14:56):
And it's all based off of your Wi Fi on
your phone.

Speaker 8 (15:00):
Uh huh.

Speaker 10 (15:01):
So when you arm the system and something comes up there,
you'll get a notification on your phone like, hey, something's happening.
The problem of it is is some of those security cameras,
like if the leaf flows by or whatever.

Speaker 8 (15:16):
It'll trigger it.

Speaker 10 (15:17):
Yeah, yeah, but that will help you out at least
see you. Who in the hell's you know breaking in
your car?

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yeah, that's a good that's a good point four cameras
for for one hundred and sixty bucks.

Speaker 10 (15:28):
She got it off of if I remember, like Amazon Prime,
but the deal was called a blank.

Speaker 8 (15:36):
Okay e L I n K okay. It works like
a champ okay, all right.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
I mean I would figure that would put me out
more than that. But if that's the price, I mean,
I'm definitely in business here. So all right, all right, Matthew.

Speaker 10 (15:49):
Yeah, she she got it there. Oh last summer when
someone tried to steal.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Our stiller, Yeah, what of all the things, of all
the things to steal, I guess.

Speaker 10 (16:02):
I live down in Missouri and everything, So why they
would still a tiller? I have no idea, but I
got the tiller back.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Oh that's good.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
That's good. Well, Matthew, this is a good Thanks for
letting me know. Appreciate you.

Speaker 8 (16:14):
No problem, all right.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, there you go. I'm working on that.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
The lug nutt thing is definitely something I got to
solve today though, because I'm not calling somebody to come
help me get this lug nut off.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Is that like the stupidest thing.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
I had a rental car once when I was in
Miami and accidentally it was flooding there because there was
a tropical storm. Yeah, great vacation. Asked me about it later,
But I gotta be honest with you. It was like
a nightmare scenario. It is literally pouring, you know, tropical
storm level rain, and I'm in flooded waters and I
pulled basically right in front of this store so I

(16:48):
can really see the tire as it's like going flat.
I definitely ran over something that made the tire go flat.
You know what ended up happening. I could not get
this tire off in the middle of this rain. I
had to call the police and have them come and
help me. Yeah, it was real embarrassing when I was
down there on vacation in Miami. But I'm not calling
somebody to help me take this tire off. I am
telling you that right now. Thank you for listening to

(17:11):
our show today. It's two twenty eight. When we come back,
we'll take more calls. If you got some thoughts on
how get the stuck lug nut off of a tire?
What do you think about my window getting busted out?
You know, just general angst. I'm here for you. We
can help each other out. On news Radio eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
And Marie's songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
I got a stuck lug nut on my backup car,
which happens to have a flat tire somehow that was
collected by my wife driving it last night. I'm not
saying that she did it intentionally or even new that
it happened, but we woke up and you could hear
the air coming out of the tire, which is obviously
not a good thing.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
We're talking about it.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Let's go ahead and get back to the phone lines
at four h two five five eight eleven ten and
Kevin is on the phone line. Kevin, welcome to the
show today.

Speaker 7 (17:55):
I am Mury.

Speaker 12 (17:55):
Hey, hey, I got a bad day story like you though,
a right fire away. I was driving down the Highway
seventy five between blatch Lift and Bellevue and I had
a tire blowout. I look at the rear tire and
it's just shredded, and I'm trying to get to work right,

(18:19):
So I get off the jack, back it up, take
the tire off, go to put it on the.

Speaker 13 (18:23):
Side of the road. So I could get to spare out.
When I look at the other tire, it's just shredded.
I blew out both rear tires at the same tart.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Geez, So what did you do?

Speaker 13 (18:37):
No, I didn't have a phoe, so I had to
walk up to the next exuit.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
How far was that? How far was that?

Speaker 8 (18:45):
What's that?

Speaker 1 (18:46):
How far was that?

Speaker 8 (18:48):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (18:48):
It felt like ten miles, but it was probably a
mile mile and half.

Speaker 8 (18:52):
Okay, okay, And.

Speaker 13 (18:54):
I got to a convenience store, called my wife. He
had to come get mood. We took the one tire in,
got it replaced with that, had to take the stir
off with that wheel on, but to stare on the
other side, and I had to go back and buy
him as a car.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, that's a bad day there, Kevin. I gotta be
honest with you. I'm thankful that I haven't had something
that catastrophic happ into a vehicle I was driving. But
that would really, that really put me in a bad mood.
I would be in a bad, bad mood, that's for sure.
I thanks for listening to us and for calling in.
It makes me feel less bad about my day. Yeah, thanks, buddy.
Bob's on a phone light of four O two, five, five,

(19:34):
eight to eleven, saying, Bob, how you doing today?

Speaker 7 (19:38):
I'm good. I told about the lugnut situation.

Speaker 10 (19:43):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 7 (19:45):
What I would do is take an angle grinder with
a cutoff wheel and basically you just set it where
the lugnut lug bolt is, run it through the nut
up to the wheel. Don't get all the way up
to the wheel. You'll damage it. Yeah, but take off

(20:09):
most of that with a cut wheel, and then use
an open end wrench to get on what you have left.
Do it one hundred and eighty degrees, and then take
that cut wheel and start back up and at that
lug I don't worry about messing up the blood. This

(20:30):
is actually it's going to be really fun for you
because when you get that lugnut cut off of there,
you take a hammer and you whack that.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
Lug Oh yeah, that's what I'm signed out.

Speaker 7 (20:45):
And then and then basically you pull a wheel off
and once the wheel is off, you finish knocking that
lugnut out of there.

Speaker 8 (20:57):
Yeah, I get you plug bolt brother, nothing right the bolto?

Speaker 7 (21:01):
Yeah right, you knocked the bowl out. When you can
go to a part store and take in what your
dad laugh and tell them what to talk of. Yeah,
they'll give you another love bowl and a new nut.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yeah, that would that would help you know I I
I appreciate this, Bob. I need to get myself one
of them grinders though, because I definitely don't have one
of those.

Speaker 7 (21:25):
But well, you have to have one, and you have
to make sure you use safety glasses and there's gonna
be sparks. Guarantee, I guarantee it'll work.

Speaker 8 (21:38):
Just be careful, all right.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Hey, Bob, good stuff. Thanks for calling in with the
help man. Really appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (21:43):
You bet, good luck, brother, Yeah, thank.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
You, thank you.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Let's go ahead and go to John, who wants to
help me with my tire problem. John, what you got
for me?

Speaker 7 (21:51):
Hey?

Speaker 11 (21:52):
Yeah, Emery? Do you does your car have steel wheels.

Speaker 8 (21:57):
Or are the alloys?

Speaker 1 (21:58):
I believe they're alloy.

Speaker 7 (22:00):
Okay.

Speaker 11 (22:01):
Is the lug nut recessed into the rim? Or is
it exposed on the outside of the rim?

Speaker 1 (22:06):
It is exposed on the outside of the rim.

Speaker 11 (22:07):
Oh okay, easy, go to a go to a hardware
store and buy a nut splitter, and what you do
is you put that around the nut and then you
twist one end of it until it cuts right through
the nut. It what may not, It shouldn't damage.

Speaker 7 (22:18):
The bold at all.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
Interesting, So so say that one more.

Speaker 11 (22:22):
Time you go to it.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
Excuse me.

Speaker 11 (22:24):
You go to a toolstore, apart store, right right, and
get the splitter and you get this tool called a
nut splitter, and it just it just sits over the
nut and then you twist the other end of it
with like an open end ranger a box in. Yeah,
and you just keep twisting until it splaits the nut.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
All right, Well, interesting, I will I will look into that.
That seems a little bit more simpler than Bob's plan
where I have to go, you know, get one of
those grinders and try to figure that out.

Speaker 11 (22:48):
But John, well it'll save you on the cost of
a pair of goggles.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
There we go. Hey, John, I appreciate the call man.

Speaker 8 (22:54):
Thanks, not a problem without it.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, Brian's on the phone line four two, five, five
eight elevens in. Welcome back, Brian. What do you got
for me today?

Speaker 14 (23:01):
Well, there's been times I haven't been able to get
a tire off, and the last time I couldn't get
the tire off, Triple A roadside Assistance couldn't get the
tire off and had to have a toad to a
repair shop. Now, I'm sixty seven and I've had injuries
and some arch riders, but I'd like to think I
can change tire myself. And it's understandable that you'd be

(23:24):
angry after having your car broken into that. I think
maybe it's time to just decide that having it towed
to a professional repair shop or tire store where they've
got the tools for doing this sort of thing might
be a thing to do.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah, and I know that, Brian.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
I suppose I'm just and I could be called stubborn
for this, but I'm already going to be like out
a few hundred dollars and that doesn't even account me
trying to get my you know, some surveillance and cameras
in the areas that I need them to avoid this
from happening in the future without me knowing who it was.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
I guess I just don't want to.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Spend the money to get towed because I can't get
a lug nut off.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
I guess I'm a little too proud.

Speaker 14 (24:04):
Well, you might end up trying all those different things.
I'm still having a problem and having to get a
toad anyway. Yeah, I'd say just go ahead and get
a toad and get it fixed.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
I mean that's possible, that is true. I'm no handyman
that we have established. Appreciate the call, Brian, thanks for
the Thanks for the heut today, Joel Rick Shane. We're
going to take your calls when we come back. If
you have thoughts, call us four h two, five five
eight to eleven ten. I'm just a small town dummy.
I'm a small town dummy that has no handyman skills.
The only thing I know how to do is catch

(24:35):
live mice in a bucket. It's the only thing I've
successfully done handyman wise in my entire life.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
It feels like and I've just.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Had a bad, no good, very bad day, and uh,
I can't get this stupid lugnut off my wheel. So
if somebody wants to help me out, I'd love to
keep talking with people. Everybody seems to have their own ideas.
I'd love to share that. We'll take your calls at
four two, five, five eight, eleven ten and more calls
coming on news radio eleven ten. K.

Speaker 9 (25:00):
Everything seems so important then, even love the way we were.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
On news Radio eleven ten kfab minus ten degree weather.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
And then my other car that I would like to
drive has a tire problem, among other things, and I
can't get this stinking lugnut off. Well, everybody seems to
have an idea for this, and our phone lines are full.
Let's go ahead and start with Joel. Joel, welcome to
our show today.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
What's going on?

Speaker 4 (25:30):
Haldy, Sorry about your bad day, but yeah, if you
just even have just a smaller socket, like the next
size down, you can just beat it on with a hammer.
You might ruin the socket, you might not, but you'll
be able to get it off. And once you get
it off, take a punch and you can punch that
lugnt out and knobs are you probably won't ruin the socket.
But just easy if you got a socket, said, you

(25:52):
already have everything you need in SOGT and a hammer.

Speaker 8 (25:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
So so you're saying, if it's like stripping, just like
go down down a size.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Guys, Yeah, beat it on. You just got to beat
that socket on. So whatever size, you might even have
to go metric or whatever, huh, but just try to
get one that's not gonna fit on. But you know
you'll be able to beat it on.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Well, I have I always Yeah, I have the ranch
and I have the hammer, so I think I can
do that if we.

Speaker 8 (26:15):
If we, yeah, that always works.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
If you have an impact, it's even better because then
you can just zip it off. But if you don't,
you could get it with your ratchet, but that's usually
the easiest way. And yeah, you probably have everything, so
cool cool man.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Well, I appreciate the thought there. Thanks for listening to us.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
Yeah, they neat if you don't have an impact too,
if you just got a little short rat so you
just find like a piece of pipe or something to
put on the end of it to get better leverage.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Too, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Hey, I appreciate this is all all right, Hey, thanks
for listening, buddy. Let's go to Shane. Shane's a little
phone line of four two, five, five, eight eleven ten. Shane,
welcome in. What do you got for me?

Speaker 13 (26:53):
A lot of times, what I'll do it's not rounded off?

Speaker 9 (26:57):
Not round it off.

Speaker 15 (26:58):
You still get a hang on there.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, it takes a little now, I think so, I
think I think I can still get it on there.
It's just when I turn it and get a lot
of torque on it just kind of slips off like
it's stripped more so than just like actually being able
to like loosen up.

Speaker 8 (27:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (27:12):
Well a lot of times I'll do was you get
one of those little uh bottles.

Speaker 8 (27:17):
With the torch on top of it, you know, Yeah, yeah,
and heat that.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Thing up and it should break it any break a bar,
Just just just heat up the outside of the lug
nut or the bolt.

Speaker 15 (27:27):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 9 (27:27):
And I was strongly not recommend putting the angle grind that.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Okay, all right, well I was. I would be honest
with you.

Speaker 13 (27:35):
I think you'd take a chance to run that stead,
you know, right, the thing that the lugnut goes onto.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah, I wasn't real keen on having to go buy
a grinder. I'll be honest with you. Appreciate it, Shane.

Speaker 15 (27:44):
If you don't have the prop paint sorts, I think
corber praise or tool use it.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Yeah for sure, he's Shane. I appreciate that. Thanks for
listening to our show. Yep, have a good day. Rick's
on our phone line four two five five. Welcome to
the show. Rick, What do you got?

Speaker 15 (28:03):
Okay, So I worked at a service station. If we
had trouble taking the lugnuts off. Do you do you
own a hammer?

Speaker 1 (28:10):
I do?

Speaker 15 (28:10):
Okay, take the hammer and tap on the side of
the lug nut and tap, tap on either side, opposite sides.
Tap on it and try it and see if not,
take your lug nut and actually tighten. Try to tighten
the lug nut. That will break. That will break the
rust loose and then you can loosen it.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Interesting.

Speaker 15 (28:34):
Try that or or the third third option, go to
an autopart store buy a can of the fix a
Flat depending on how big the hole is in the tire,
really really big. If it's a really big hole, if that,
fix a Flat won't work. But what it does is
it pumps a solution into the tire, and it'll also

(28:56):
blow it up for you enough to get to somewhere
where you can have fixed.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Interesting. Yeah, I can hear.

Speaker 8 (29:02):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
I couldn't find where the hole was, but I could
hear it kind of hissing the air out of it,
and it was getting flat fast enough that it definitely
is of some size. I'm not exactly sure how big, though,
Rick that that's a It's a good idea because I'm
not far away from my place.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
That fixes this car.

Speaker 15 (29:19):
So yeah, and if you do use that, if you
do use to fix a flat, when you do go
and have it fixed, make sure you tell them you
put that in there, because this stuff is kind of
flammable and when they when they pop the tire, loose it, well,
it can it can flare and and hurt somebody. But
it's a quick and easy. I carry a can of

(29:40):
fix a flat with me when I go traveling, and
if I have a low tire, I can blow it up.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Interesting. That's good stuff. Rick, thanks for so much listening
to our show and calling in. All right, let's go
to John on the phone line four two, five, five,
eight eleven ten.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Welcome in, John. What do you think?

Speaker 16 (29:55):
Yeah, it would have to pick a daylight there to do.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Something like that, you know, I know, I know, right,
what come on, man, seriously, like of all the days?

Speaker 16 (30:03):
Really, you know, I got a plan. Try an impact
socket on that thing. Okay, if you have an impact socket, by.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Chance, I can buy one. I know, I know what
that is.

Speaker 16 (30:15):
Take a love network you if you can go down
there to the fire storm buy buy an impact socket.
Try how bad are they rolled over?

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Uh? It's it's not too bad.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
I mean, it's just like it's I think it's just
like the other guy said, just kind of probably rusted there.

Speaker 16 (30:32):
You got a half inch racket or happens break your bar?

Speaker 1 (30:35):
I do?

Speaker 16 (30:36):
Okay, get a half inch impact socket. I put that
on there. I like the man said, get some PEB
blaster if uh uh paint oil uh put tb blaster on.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Okay, now loosen it. It'll help make it able to
be loosened up.

Speaker 16 (30:53):
You think, yeah, I should loosen the right up. And
like the other guy said, the gentleman said, yeah, tighten
it and they lose to it.

Speaker 15 (31:00):
You know.

Speaker 16 (31:01):
Let's break that rush for you.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Hey, John, good stuff man, thanks for calling in today.
Really appreciate it.

Speaker 16 (31:06):
Good luck, Hey warm writing the storm out man?

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Yeah, thanks man, you too. Hey, we'll take more calls.
Thanks for being a part of my family here on
news radio eleven ten kfa B.