Replacing rear wheel stud
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Replacing rear wheel stud
Does the parking brake assembly have to be removed to replace a wheel stud?
How do I go about removing the old stud? BFH?
How do I go about removing the old stud? BFH?
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From: AZ
Nope.
Not as long as you don't mind drilling a hole in your dust-shield at 9 o-clock on the driver side and 3 o-clock on the passenger side.
You may have to pull one end of one parking brake pad and the corresponding adustment spring, beyond that the worst part (for me at least) is the spring/bucket reinstallation for that one pad. Use two pair of forceps if you have them and/or long thin needle nose pliers. One pair to hold the pin from behind the pad, the other to get the bucket depressed just right. That was the only PITA involved.
Cut/grind the old stud off flush or dish it a bit for bite with the center punch. (with rotor removed, mark the shims, blah, blah, etc, etc....). Then take a center punch & BFH and knock 'er out the back. I actually drilled it most of the way out first so the impacts from the BFH wouldn't have any effect on hub/spindle internals. Just in case.....
Several old threads have more details on the actual stud installation, that's not the hard part though.....at least for me it wasn't.
VLTW!
Not as long as you don't mind drilling a hole in your dust-shield at 9 o-clock on the driver side and 3 o-clock on the passenger side.
You may have to pull one end of one parking brake pad and the corresponding adustment spring, beyond that the worst part (for me at least) is the spring/bucket reinstallation for that one pad. Use two pair of forceps if you have them and/or long thin needle nose pliers. One pair to hold the pin from behind the pad, the other to get the bucket depressed just right. That was the only PITA involved.
Cut/grind the old stud off flush or dish it a bit for bite with the center punch. (with rotor removed, mark the shims, blah, blah, etc, etc....). Then take a center punch & BFH and knock 'er out the back. I actually drilled it most of the way out first so the impacts from the BFH wouldn't have any effect on hub/spindle internals. Just in case.....
Several old threads have more details on the actual stud installation, that's not the hard part though.....at least for me it wasn't.
VLTW!
Last edited by 82XFire; Nov 21, 2005 at 06:08 PM.
