Stuck Spinner

[ACHiPo]

You can also try this:
Cobra Valley's Spinner Removal Tool

Remember—“everybody likes a tight ass”—spin toward to the back of the car to tighten, front to loosen.

[Ron61]

The tool that ACHIpo shows is what I use and they work great. And the easy way to remember how to turn the spinners is always turn both sides toward the front of the car to loosen and toward the rear to tighten. If you have to write it on a piece of paper and stick it on your garage wall.

Ron

[patrickt]

In the embedded video in this thread you can see the correct direction for the passenger side. The driver side is just the opposite (normal, as you would expect).
I Can Remove My Spinners With One Finger

[HI Cobra]

I recently tried the spinner removal tool when I had to remove all 4 wheels to do
a brake bleed. The tool worked great - put some tension on a spinner with it and
smack with the hammer, tighten, smack, then they came off easily without much
degrading of the hammer. Much easier than with the hammer alone. Be sure to
put a sharpie mark on the wheel/axle so you can the movement. Tight ass works
well for me for remembering rotational directions. LOL

[rodneym]

Originally Posted by patrickt

In the embedded video in this thread you can see the correct direction for the passenger side. The driver side is just the opposite (normal, as you would expect).
I Can Remove My Spinners With One Finger

*SPOILER ALERT*

He used more than one finger.

[DanEC]

Originally Posted by ACHiPo

You can also try this:
Cobra Valley's Spinner Removal Tool

Remember—“everybody likes a tight ass”—spin toward to the back of the car to tighten, front to loosen.

I may have to look at one of those to help save my hammers. Wish they would work on my Corvette KOs too.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by DanEC

I may have to look at one of those to help save my hammers. Wish they would work on my Corvette KOs too.

Whatever you end up doing, make sure you can fire it up with an impact wrench. Believe me, it makes all the difference in the world to your elbows and shoulders.

[DanEC]

Originally Posted by patrickt

Whatever you end up doing, make sure you can fire it up with an impact wrench. Believe me, it makes all the difference in the world to your elbows and shoulders.

Now Patrick, I'm still trying to keep my 67 year old body is shape with regular exercise like wheel borrowing and spreading a truck load or two of dirt across our yard each year, getting up and down from a creeper 20 or 30 times a day, swinging my lead hammer on these KO spinners, huffing transmissions in & out of my cars and howling at the moon or any group that has offended my sensibilities of late.