One of the lugs in my wheel broke!! how do i replace it?
10-02-2007, 12:44 AM
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One of the lugs in my wheel broke!! how do i replace it?
the guy was removing my bolts with an air gun and one of the things where i put my lug on broke... how do i go about replacing it?...
10-02-2007, 02:38 AM
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They are called lug studs/wheel studs.
I recently had to change a few of mine.
What you do is you take of your rim, then remove the brake caliper.
It should be two 17mm bolts, iirc.
You pull off the caliper, and the brake rotor should come right off, if not, just tap it a few times with a dead blow hammer.
Then you have to hit the studs with the hammer until they pop out.
You put the new wheel stud in, and hammer it in from the back.
I did have a few problems with mine though, like i couldnt hammer it all the way in no matter how hard i tried. I ended up just putting the rim on and tightening up the lug nut as much as i could, then tightening it again after i drove around for a bit.
I also could not pound one of the rear lug studs out either.
The fronts came out easily, but i could not budge the rears at all.
Good luck.
I recently had to change a few of mine.
What you do is you take of your rim, then remove the brake caliper.
It should be two 17mm bolts, iirc.
You pull off the caliper, and the brake rotor should come right off, if not, just tap it a few times with a dead blow hammer.
Then you have to hit the studs with the hammer until they pop out.
You put the new wheel stud in, and hammer it in from the back.
I did have a few problems with mine though, like i couldnt hammer it all the way in no matter how hard i tried. I ended up just putting the rim on and tightening up the lug nut as much as i could, then tightening it again after i drove around for a bit.
I also could not pound one of the rear lug studs out either.
The fronts came out easily, but i could not budge the rears at all.
Good luck.
10-02-2007, 07:39 AM
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As wiggafly808 said, just beat them out and pull them back in. Easiest way is with air/electric tools, put the new stud in the hub, and get either an open ended lugnut (M12x1.5) or a few washers and use your stock acorns, just keep tightening the lugnut on the stud until it's pulled in to the hub. Alternatively, you can do like above, just torque the lugnut to spec, let it go through a heat cycle, torque it again, until the base of the stud is almost flush with the back of the hub.
10-02-2007, 08:12 AM
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They are called lug studs/wheel studs.
I recently had to change a few of mine.
What you do is you take of your rim, then remove the brake caliper.
It should be two 17mm bolts, iirc.
You pull off the caliper, and the brake rotor should come right off, if not, just tap it a few times with a dead blow hammer.
Then you have to hit the studs with the hammer until they pop out.
You put the new wheel stud in, and hammer it in from the back.
I did have a few problems with mine though, like i couldnt hammer it all the way in no matter how hard i tried. I ended up just putting the rim on and tightening up the lug nut as much as i could, then tightening it again after i drove around for a bit.
I also could not pound one of the rear lug studs out either.
The fronts came out easily, but i could not budge the rears at all.
Good luck.
I recently had to change a few of mine.
What you do is you take of your rim, then remove the brake caliper.
It should be two 17mm bolts, iirc.
You pull off the caliper, and the brake rotor should come right off, if not, just tap it a few times with a dead blow hammer.
Then you have to hit the studs with the hammer until they pop out.
You put the new wheel stud in, and hammer it in from the back.
I did have a few problems with mine though, like i couldnt hammer it all the way in no matter how hard i tried. I ended up just putting the rim on and tightening up the lug nut as much as i could, then tightening it again after i drove around for a bit.
I also could not pound one of the rear lug studs out either.
The fronts came out easily, but i could not budge the rears at all.
Good luck.
10-02-2007, 08:39 AM
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hit the studs from the side that the wheel would be if you look at them thats the only way you can hit them out there is a lip on the other side when i did mine I took the whole hub off so I could work on it off the car then when i was putting in the new ones used one of my old rims to make sure they lined up right put it all together put good rims on and drove around for the afternoon then went and checked all the lugs to make sure they were tight and tightened where needed
10-02-2007, 09:35 AM
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You cannot hit the studs of the odd stud that happens to be behind the hub. One needs to pull the stud, for that you will have to put a larger bolt on the rotor and then put the stud bolt on top of the larger bolt (like spacer) and tighten.
10-02-2007, 02:38 PM
#8
They look like that, available at your local checkers/autozone.
I believe the dorman ones are universal for the front and back.
As you can see, the stud can only be pounded out one way.
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