Air wrench and someone else jamming the head with a screwdriver from under the
car did the trick when one of my studs tried the same thing on me during the
OTC a year ago.
-Carl
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allendorfer, Mike [mailto:mwa96imp@regionofdoom.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 9:46 PM
> To: MrPepsi(Brent Johnson); Autox List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Lug nut studs
>
>
> Uh, You're not gonna like this one. For most all cars except certain
> German ones, the stud is pressed into the hub. It is not
> threaded like head
> studs or exhaust manifold studs :( To keep the stud from
> pulling out of the
> hub, it is pressed in from the back side and has a head on it
> like a nail or
> screw. To remove the stud, you are gonna have to remove the
> wheel hub and
> rotor in one assembly, which is gonna be real tough, 'cause the brake
> caliper is not going to want to come off. The other way is
> MAYBE you can
> get someone w/ an air wrench to spin it off real fast, but,
> frankly, I've
> never been that lucky when it comes to problems like that.
> I'm sure that
> tire shops or dealerships have had this problem before, but I
> bet it costs
> you $100 to fix the problem. :(
>
> Mike Allendorfer
> Representing each of the Big 3 plus Honda w/ my automotive fleet.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MrPepsi(Brent Johnson)" <Soloii@mrpepsi.com>
> To: "Autox List (E-mail)" <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 9:54 AM
> Subject: Lug nut studs
>
>
> > Well something bad happened this morning while attempting
> to change my
> > tires.
> > I had a stud strip, break, something, I can't tell.
> > Now my lug nut is torqued onto the stud but the stud will
> not come off the
> > rotor.
> > It freely spins and is very loose but the lug nut will not
> come off, and
> the
> > stud will not come out of the rotor.
> > I thought when a stud came loose, which I did not plan of
> happening, it
> > would just come off the rotor with the lug nut.
> > But this isn't happening.
> > Any ideas?
> > What happened?
> >
> > Brent Johnson
> > '01 Mustang GT
> > FS #03
> >
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