Tires stuck...

[jstutz101]

Purchased a 2007 Yukon a few months ago and decided it was time for a front brake job. After watching various youtube videos and reading the helpful posts here I was ready to give it a shot. So I jack up the truck, remove the lug nuts and come to a abrupt halt. The tire wont budge.. I try kicking, hammering, kicking some more, nothing. Got on youtube and found a post that suggests trying leaving the lug nuts loose and going for a short drive. So I reinstalled the lug nuts just hand tight and backed them out half a turn and went for a spin.

Got back home and jacked the truck up again. The wheel was still stuck but now I was able to kick it a couple times and it broke loose. I had the same problem on both wheels.

The rest of the brake job was a piece of cake. Never had that problem before. It would really suck if I had a flat tire in the middle of the night. I already know how much of a pain it is to get the spare off.

 

[NathanJax]

It's easy to get the spare off. Tools are in the rear driver side under the cup holder. Make sure you only torque the lug nuts to the appropriate ft lb of torque and hopefully you shouldn't have a problem getting the rim off next time.

 

[TheFuzz]

Yeah, sounds like the lugs were over-torqued by a large margin. Was there any corrosion or anything that fused the hub to the wheel?

 

[mfdrookie516]

I always have to kick my wheels off the first time I take them off after winter. They salt the roads around here really heavy, and we rarely get much snow.

It's good practice, IMO, to remove the spare a couple times a year... and some WD-40 goes a long way in keeping everything under there in working order.

 

[TheFuzz]

It's good practice, IMO, to remove the spare a couple times a year... and some WD-40 goes a long way in keeping everything under there in working order.

Very good point.

 

[jstutz101]

Yeah, sounds like the lugs were over-torqued by a large margin. Was there any corrosion or anything that fused the hub to the wheel?

Not sure if the lugs were over torqued, they came off fine, but there was a lot of corrosion (white powder) between the wheel and the hub. I ran some axel grease between the wheel and hub when I put it all back together. I suspect just taking the wheels off know and then would help.

I dropped the spare shortly after buying the truck. I had a heck of a time getting the wheel to drop. That back up catch wouldn't release. I finally got it down and greased it also. Road salt corrosion sucks!

 

[fiatdale]

Road salt corrosion sucks!

I had to cut my carrier off because it was so corroded from salt. $80 later hopefully it wont happen again now that I don't live in the Salt belt anymore!

 

[TheFuzz]

Not sure if the lugs were over torqued, they came off fine, but there was a lot of corrosion (white powder) between the wheel and the hub. I ran some axel grease between the wheel and hub when I put it all back together. I suspect just taking the wheels off know and then would help.

I dropped the spare shortly after buying the truck. I had a heck of a time getting the wheel to drop. That back up catch wouldn't release. I finally got it down and greased it also. Road salt corrosion sucks!

Good, I was gonna suggest greasing the hub before putting it back together. That should keep it from seizing again.

I'm not a fan of rust belt trucks either. My Yukon was Colorado born and raised...not a spec of rust anywhere on it, other than the normal light surface rust on the exhaust. Nothing else. Then, I sold it and bought my Toyota, which lived most of it's life in Chicago - talk about RUST. I snapped bolts left and right on the underside of that beast when I worked on it, no matter how much PB Blaster I used to soak the heads. It was terrible.

Thanking my lucky stars that I'm back in a Colorado-owned truck - so much easier to work on. Once again, not a spec of rust on it. No road salt FTW!