TJefferson2020

I’m test fitting new rims and found that my studs are too long for the new wheels (that’s what she said).

I used longer ones to compensate for wheel spacers way back when.

I assumed I would have to take the calipers and rotors off. So I started in the passenger side and wrestled with removing the rotor. As I was hammering the face, I smacked a stud dead center - and it flew out the rear side - with the rotor on!

Holy carpe’ diem! There is a space behind there that allows them to come out and put in shorter ones without removing nuthin’.

I know you are supposed to press them out but I smacked the other four while turning the rotor and they all came out easy. Almost zero stress on the bearing and hub.

Put back the caliper on passenger side and whacked out the other five studs on the drivers side in about a minute.

Posting for the next poor soul that needs to remove and replace wheel lug nut studs on a mid year. The space is on the rear side of the dust shield.

They will literally shoot out of there. One of mine flew under the car and out the other side.

Lou-Q

Were these the front or rear studs?
I have a loose one on the rear that needs to be replaced on my 67.
Thanks,
Lou

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Westlotorn

Pretty sure the pounding may be a little hard on the bearings sitting in that wheel hub.
Maybe if you backed up your pounding with a dead weight to absorb the whack it may not be so bad?

Drothgeb

vettsplit 63

I worked for five years in a brake and alignment shop a long time ago. That is the exact procedure we used to replace studs that were broken/had bad threads. Probably did several hundred, never a problem with anything. just be sure to line up the splines on the back with the existing spline cuts in the hub,,use some washers, or take an oversize lug nut and turn it around backward for a spacer, then suck the stud back into place using an air wrench and lug nut. Done

MikeM

Yep! The ones I've replaced, that's the way I've done it on the ones I've replaced. Didn't take a lot of hammering to get the studs out. Tap, tap, tap.

The way some work, it takes longer to get the right tools out and put them away and getting ready to go to work than it does to just go ahead and do it.

solidaxel

That can't be any worse than the deep pot holes around here!

AZDoug

Doug

bj1k

For removing the studs you can simply make a tool for your air chisel by taking an old straight chisel and cut it off blunt on the end and slide a 1/2 inch long piece of pipe 1/4 inch over the end and weld it on , leaving a 1/4 inch space at the end to keep the tool from slipping off of the stud . It creates less shock on the bearings and pops them right out .

Lou-Q

Snorkie said he did it with the rotor on.
What I want to know is, how it can be done without taking the rotor off. All I have to do is one.
Thanks,
Lou