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2. Lug wrench - Wikipedia

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   Lug wrenches may be L-shaped, or X-shaped. The form commonly found in car trunks is an L-shaped metal rod with a socket wrench on the bent end and a prying tip on the other end. The prying tip is mainly intended to remove hub caps or wheel covers that may be covering a wheel's lug nuts.

3. Socket wrench - Wikipedia

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   Socket set with ratchet (above), four hex sockets and a universal joint. A socket wrench (or socket spanner) is a type of spanner (or wrench [1] in North American English) that uses a closed socket format, rather than a typical open wrench/spanner to turn a fastener, typically in the form of a nut or bolt.

4. Lug nut - Wikipedia

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   From left: 9 lug nuts and 4 lug nut attached to screw-in wheel studs. A bolt circle with four lug nuts on an Acura. A lug nut or wheel nut is a fastener, specifically a nut, used to secure a wheel on a vehicle. Typically, lug nuts are found on automobiles, trucks (lorries), and other large vehicles using rubber tires.

5. Hubcap - Wikipedia

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   They then serve to protect the lug nuts or wheel bolts from rust and corrosion that could make them hard to remove when it was necessary to change the wheel to repair a tire. [ 6 ] An option on some cars was a chrome-plated trim ring that clipped onto the outer rim of the wheel, in addition to the center hubcap.

6. Loose wheel nut indicator - Wikipedia

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   The Checkpoint / Dustite / Dustite LR is attached to two adjacent wheel nuts in such a way that the respective indicator tips point towards each other. Should a lug nut become loose, the pointer will move in line with the movement of the lug nut, i.e. the tips no longer point to each other.

7. Wheel spikes - Wikipedia

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   Wheel spikes attached to the hubcaps of semi trucks are essentially stylized versions of plastic lug nut covers, which may offer protection from rusting and have more common round and flat counterparts.

8. Nut (hardware) - Wikipedia

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   Insert nut: Threaded socket A threaded socket for a wooden workpiece, similar to a wall anchor. Knurled nut: Thumb nut Has a knurled outside surface which facilitates tightening by hand (thumb nut) or secures the nut into a handle or cover (insertion nut) Sex bolt: Barrel nut, barrel bolt, binding barrel, Chicago screw, post and screw or ...

9. Impact wrench - Wikipedia

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   A 1/2" drive pistol-grip air impact wrench. An impact wrench (also known as an impactor, impact gun, air wrench, air gun, rattle gun, torque gun, windy gun) is a socket wrench power tool designed to deliver high torque output with minimal exertion by the user, by storing energy in a rotating mass, then delivering it suddenly to the output shaft.