 Changing my wheel, bolt wouldn't budge
So I finally get around to changing over to my winter tires tonight. All goes well with the first 3, until I get to the right front wheel. One of the bolts is STUCK. Badly. And it is the lock bolt. After a LOT of grunting and sweating, and with a 1" drive I happened to have, I was finally able to get it to start budging. It was stiff the whole way out.
Once I got the bolt out, I inspected the threads, suspecting the shop may have cross threaded it, but it appeared fine. It did have a bit more rust on it than the others though. I ran one of the other bolts through the hole a couple of times to see if that would clear it out, with only limited success. I had to work to get a bolt back in there again.
Should I be worried? Is there something I can do to loosen it up a bit so I don't have this same problem again? Is my lock bolt now toast due to "stretching"? |