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Summary: Learn how to remove the wheels when restoring a car in this free DIY car-restoration video from our expert mechanic, body shop owner and professional hot rod designer, builder and racer.

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Doug Jenkins Doug, of “Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods”, not only servers the entire nation, but even customers outside the U.S have found the shop's services indispensable. ... read more

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How to Remove Wheel for Car Restoration

Hi! I'm Doug and I work with twenty great guys in St. Lous at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we are going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. In order to allow good access to the working area, we want to remove the wheel. Nice plastic wheel cover; nice metal wheel; they always have a little notch there where you can get a nice screwdriver in and remove the center cap. We're using an impact gun to remove the wheel. The...whenever you're using an impact gun, you want to use a black socket. All manufacturers agree to that. The harder sockets are done in a black color so you can distinguish them and never use a silver one. When using a hand tool...you know, Alex is using an impact gun to remove this wheel...If he were going to be using hand tools, he'd loosen up the lug nuts while the vehicle was still on the ground. Don't try to hold the wheel still using the parking break or the engine or anything like that. You'd want to loosen it while it's on the ground. Alex is threading the lug nuts back on the lug studs to protect them while he does the work. He doesn't want to dribble any body filler on them. He doesn't want to hit them with a grinder or tool, get anything in them. So he's just protecting them and if they are on the lug studs, you can't lose them. If you set them on the floor, they get swept up or kicked or something.

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