Hi All,

looking for some help here, I have a 07 QC ram with the 20" wheels, this morning i got up to go to work and had rear flat on me. After cursing that, I got the truck up on its jack and removed the lugs...however, I can not for the life of me remove the wheel from the truck. It is stuck on there some how or I have missed some step with these rims that is escaping me on what to do. And I've spent the better part of my evening trying to remove this wheel.

Luckily my 2k Dak R/T was around so I still made it to work but, Id rather drive the ram at this point.

Anyway thanks in advance for any help you can give

EW

 

First off, i would set the rear axle on jack stands and make for certain you removed all lug nuts and the take a block of wood and hold it against the inner side of the tire and carefully strike with a mallot or hammerand rotate wheel and repeat in several spots. Hopefully this helps, but be careful not to drop the vehicle on yourself, hence, the jackstands.

 

+1^.... but if that doesnt work you can take a torch or a one of those handheld LP torches and heat the center up. i have to do this to my moms intrepid a couple of times.

 

the dis-similar metals will bond together.... the aluminum wheels will almost weld itself to the steel hub, just grab a big hammer and smack it from the backside, around where the wheel weights would be, it will come loose.

You could apply a thin coat of anti-seeze to the wheel where it would touch the hub, to prevent this from happening again.

 

definitely have all the lugs removed unfortunately no jack stands around that i think will support this truck. I may try that torch idea though and see what happens

 

Do not hit the rim though our else you may be buying a new one.

 

yeah I only do it a few times a day at work with no damage.... but whatever.

Just dont go hitting it with a fricking sludge hammer, or a small claw hammer or somthing.

 

The FIRST flat I got was on a cold and rainy night. It was low temps out but what else can you do when you have a flat. So I was out in the rain for a long time and just like you I could NOT get the damn rear tire off. Mine was jacked up and secured and all the lugs off but it would not budge. I had a big rubber mallet (sp) in my truck and I beat the crap out of my rim. I didnt care. I was wet and cold, it was still raining and I was soaked. I kicked it, pried it, hit it and everything else I could think of. Finally I said the hell with it and went and got a can of Fix-A-Flat and used that and took it to a shop the next morning.

Never in my entire life had I ever had something like that happen to me.

 

Yall need to get all teh wheels off and put some antisieze on the backs. Put it on the lug studs as well. I've had a few wheels I've had to beat the hell out of to get off, and that is on a lift and in texas where we don't have a lot of road salt.

 

I run into the same thing every time I rotate the tires, I now carry a large rubber dead blow hammer in the tool box for just such emergencies.