You can also try drilling the stud to weaken it and break it off. I don't
think the studs are real hard at least the ones on my neon aren't.
Patrick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Merritt" <CMerritt@luminous.com>
To: "Allendorfer, Mike" <mwa96imp@regionofdoom.com>; "MrPepsi(Brent
Johnson)" <Soloii@mrpepsi.com>; "Autox List (E-mail)"
<ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:50 PM
Subject: RE: Lug nut studs
> 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
> > >
> > > [demime 0.99d.1 removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef]
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