replacing front wheel stud help!
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Drifting
Joined: Feb 2008
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From: Port Charlotte FL
replacing front wheel stud help!
Hey guys tonight I was driving, and the front wheel stud just snapped...
I'm certainly not about to drive it with a broken stud, it was making all kinds of noises on the way home doing only 30 mph! How hard is this to fix, or what should i expect to pay at the stealership!?!
Thanks
I'm certainly not about to drive it with a broken stud, it was making all kinds of noises on the way home doing only 30 mph! How hard is this to fix, or what should i expect to pay at the stealership!?!
Thanks
Burning Brakes
Joined: Aug 2006
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From: Denville NJ
That certainly seems strange. Did you have any recent brake work done? How about tightening the wheels. I'm not one to ovetighten.
In any case, if you have done car stuff in the past, this should not be a big problem. Jack up the problem wheel and remove it. You will see the lugs sticking out of the wheel hub. They are pressed as far as I know, which is typical. So you can then position it and knock it through with a center punch and hammer. You will have to feed in the new one in from the back side and pull it through by tightening down a lug nut.
That's how it used to be done, if someone knows better they will chime in.
In any case, if you have done car stuff in the past, this should not be a big problem. Jack up the problem wheel and remove it. You will see the lugs sticking out of the wheel hub. They are pressed as far as I know, which is typical. So you can then position it and knock it through with a center punch and hammer. You will have to feed in the new one in from the back side and pull it through by tightening down a lug nut.
That's how it used to be done, if someone knows better they will chime in.
Drifting
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From: St. Louis Mo
That certainly seems strange. Did you have any recent brake work done? How about tightening the wheels. I'm not one to ovetighten.
In any case, if you have done car stuff in the past, this should not be a big problem. Jack up the problem wheel and remove it. You will see the lugs sticking out of the wheel hub. They are pressed as far as I know, which is typical. So you can then position it and knock it through with a center punch and hammer. You will have to feed in the new one in from the back side and pull it through by tightening down a lug nut.
That's how it used to be done, if someone knows better they will chime in.
In any case, if you have done car stuff in the past, this should not be a big problem. Jack up the problem wheel and remove it. You will see the lugs sticking out of the wheel hub. They are pressed as far as I know, which is typical. So you can then position it and knock it through with a center punch and hammer. You will have to feed in the new one in from the back side and pull it through by tightening down a lug nut.
That's how it used to be done, if someone knows better they will chime in.
I just can t imagine a stud to snap off like that but i believe it did.
Team Owner
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St. Jude Donor '06-'08-'10
If the other four lugs are tight there should not be any noise caused by the broken stud.
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In most circumstances you shouldn't have known the stud was broken. In my younger days I drove a car without a lug stud for several months without ever having a problem.
You may want to check the other lug nuts to make sure they are tight. You may have another one getting ready to break.
Bill
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St. Jude Donor '06-'08-'10
In my younger, dumber days I ran north of 100 MPH several times with only 4 lugs. Of course it was not on a public street or highway....
Or with any degree of intelligence either for that matter.
Le Mans Master
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From: Longview Texas
I would check the torque on the lugs on all the wheels, not just the one that broke a stud. If they are under-torqued, it can allow the wheel to move and flex the stud, causing a fatigue break.
Burning Brakes
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From: Miami Fl
YOUR ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ITS NOT TO HARD TO FIX. ONCE YOU POP OUT THE DAMAGED STUD, TO INSERT THE NEW ONE YOU FIND THE WHOLE IN THE BACK WHERE THE STUD CAN GO IN. YOU JUST TIGHTEN IT WITH A LUG NUT.
ITS NOT TO HARD TO FIX. ONCE YOU POP OUT THE DAMAGED STUD, TO INSERT THE NEW ONE YOU FIND THE WHOLE IN THE BACK WHERE THE STUD CAN GO IN. YOU JUST TIGHTEN IT WITH A LUG NUT.
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That certainly seems strange. Did you have any recent brake work done? How about tightening the wheels. I'm not one to ovetighten.
In any case, if you have done car stuff in the past, this should not be a big problem. Jack up the problem wheel and remove it. You will see the lugs sticking out of the wheel hub. They are pressed as far as I know, which is typical. So you can then position it and knock it through with a center punch and hammer. You will have to feed in the new one in from the back side and pull it through by tightening down a lug nut.
That's how it used to be done, if someone knows better they will chime in.
In any case, if you have done car stuff in the past, this should not be a big problem. Jack up the problem wheel and remove it. You will see the lugs sticking out of the wheel hub. They are pressed as far as I know, which is typical. So you can then position it and knock it through with a center punch and hammer. You will have to feed in the new one in from the back side and pull it through by tightening down a lug nut.
That's how it used to be done, if someone knows better they will chime in.