Vg30ekid

I have a 1993 Nissan Maxima se with the ve30de. Very clean car except the engine has 206,000 miles but that’s besides the point. I recently purchased the car and two days later which was last night my wheel started making a funny noise. Boom. It fell off. One of the studs broke with the lug off on the passenger front side. My suspicion was the lugs were put in backwards and what do you know it all the wheels lug were on backwards cause people are really stupid and shouldn’t touch cars. I had a friend come to the rescue and help me with his jack and impact gun we put all the lugs on right so now I’m still stuck with the problem of replacing the studs on the front passenger side. If anyone knows how to go about this help would be gladly appreciated. This is one of the few things I wouldn’t know how to do.

Vg30ekid

I should add I’m changing all five on that hub because I’m not running the risk of any of the other studs being stripped which they most likely are

chrome91

iTrader: (1)

take the brakes and rotor apart and off, use an air hammer or mallet to pop out the old studs. line up the new ones, put a few washers on the side facing the hub, use a spare lugnut and airgun to suck in the new studs. ive replaced hundreds of studs that way

Vg30ekid

Sounds easy enough I was mostly curious because I know some cars require removing the dust shield or taking out the entire hub assembly to get the studs out which would be extra work

ac max 92

iTrader: (13)

Or you could just get a new hub with studs to save the headache of punching out the old and replacing them. Just a thought.

Vg30ekid

Not tryna do that much work and I’m broke rn not tryna buy an entire hub

chrome91

iTrader: (1)

most vehicles theres enough room to worm out the old ones and put in the new ones and you just have to remove the rotor and caliper bracket assembly, its been years since ive done studs on a 3rd gen but i dont remember having to do the whole hub and shield drama bit

Vg30ekid

The dust shield is entirely in the way and I have no clue how to remove it. I tried removing the hub but if I do this the dust shield will come off with it

Vg30ekid

I ended up cutting part of the dust shield just enough to punch out the studs.

CMax03

iTrader: (3)

If you have ABS remove than sensors out the knuckle or the banging of you knocking the studs out will crack your ABSsensor magnet