Can i knock them out without disassembling brake or axle components.

 

You mean WHEEL studs?
if you have the factory dust shields on, you can't pull them without pulling the hub I don't think. I've cut the dust shields off and have plenty of room tho.

 

Tire studs wheels studs same thing yea my dust shield not on there............. u pull them out or knock them out wit hammer and chisel

 

Tire studs implies studs on tires, like winter tires.

 

this is exactly what I thought when I read the thread title... it's spring, now, why would you want studded tires?

 

you can do it if the dust shields are notched with a grinder to make room for them to come out.

when i put all new front studs on back in september:


see the notch between the mounting holes for the brakes? anyhow, i just sprayed everything with PB blaster (even the new studs), and put the hub onto a wheel and just bought 2 spare lugnuts and tightened them down through the wheel. I didn't take the old ones out.. the hubs belonged to Goon previously, who had his own superlong wheel studs for his spacer'd wheels, and he kept those studs.

 

i dont want studded tires lol I guess i made it confusing yes im talkin bout wheel studs the ones u put your wheels over sum broke and i just want 2 replace them

 

i would love studded tires! i want to take my new max off road like i did my old one. hmmm maybe thats why i when threw two trannys?

 

no, that was just cuz it had a re4f02a. mine died at 15% throttle leaving the highway and getting onto the local route.

 

mine blew at 70 while cruzing to work. input shaft seized and when bang! but the trans put up a good fight untill then

 

That blows - I hope there was at least some warning and you could make it home really slow at least.

 

nope. it went from being 100% fine to 100% dead instantaneously. i had just enough speed (40mph) to coast across 4 lanes and onto a side street. then i called a friend and we pushed it into a parking lot (engine running so we at least had powersteering & power brakes). that's how come i did the 5spd swap in the middle of winter (just 6 days after i bought the parts car) instead of doing it in april or may like i'd originally planned to. then i swapped again for a VLSD 8 months later. which is when i had to do wheel studs, cuz the first set of VE hubs i got had crap wheel bearings and i didn't feel like using the crusty rusty old wheel studs over again.

 

I think that removing the wheel studs from the front or back hubs requires a complete tear-down of the assembly. I don't remember which though. I am positive that when I put 60mm extended studs on I had to completly tear down two of the assemblies, that's for sure.

 

had to be the rears. you can't tear the fronts apart without a press.

 

i changed the rear studs couple of months ago...i jus hammered them out without taking apart anything ...jus be careful with abs sensor tho ( if u have one )

 

Yeah it was the fronts... I have a 5 ton press for bearing jobs and other random rigged up jobs. My favorite is using sets of different sized sockets to pop out bushings and things, can't tell you how many time's I've done that.

 

the rear hub can be unbolted off the car so there's plenty of room for rear studs.

 

oic. i wish you lived closer to me... you coulda saved me a few Franklins during the last year.

 

For sure...I think it's one tool every home mechanic needs but doesn't know it. Use it once, it pays for itself. Like a ShamWOW.