I was doing my springs a few weeks ago and my super strong friend was torqueing it to about 80 which should be about right i think? anyway one of the wheel lugs ended up breaking and i dont know how i can get it off any help?

 

ill tell you a trick if you tell me whos in your avatar...

 

 

Torque is 76 ft lbs, btw.

 

Last time this happened to me, on my other car, I pushed out the stud from the back and hammered in a new stud.

 

You guy's aren't helping out davedavetc here...

 

oh haha! honestly i have no idea.. i was on another forum and a guy had it for his avatar so i jacked it

 

in for the pic... I mean for the solution too.

 

You would basically have to take out the caliper, caliper bracket, rotors, and eventually knock out the stud from the hub with a hammer. Get a new wheel stud, place a couple of washers in between wheel stud and lugnut, and use a impact wrench to pull the new stud back in.

 

was going to say almost all of that except, you dont need an impact gun, you can use a deep socket and a nut (any nut that fits on the stud) and a whole bunch of washers to seat the stud, and then you'll have to get a new lug. so a step by step would be like this:

1: loosen the rest of the lugs.
2. jack car up to desirable height.
3. place jack stands under car.
4. remove lugs and wheel.
5. remove 2 14mm bolts on the back of the caliper and move caliper out of the way.
6. remove brake pads from caliper bracket.
7. remove 2 17mm bolts on the back of the caliper bracket.
8. remove brake rotor.
9. turn hub so that the stud that will be banged out is lined up with the little slot on the side of the hub (you will see it when you look there)
10. bang the stud out with a hammer. (be careful not to hit any other studs).
11. insert new wheel stud into the hole using the same slot for clearance.
12. place about 5-6 washers (maybe more depending on thickness of washers) on to the wheel stud.
13. thread nut on so that flat part of the nut seats against the washers.
(you may need an extra set of hands for next step.)
14. tighten the nut until the back of the stud is flush with hub. (reason for friend is the hub will spin so you might need a friend to hold it still, i didnt but thats because i was using an impact gun, but you dont need an impact gun i have also done this w/o using air tools of any kind.)
15. check to make sure the new stud is flush and even.
16. place rotor back on.
17. attach caliper bracket.
18. place pads back in bracket.
19. attach caliper back on.
20. double check to make sure all bolts are tight!
21. place wheel back on.
22. hand tighten wheel lugs.
23. jack car back up slightly.
24. remove jack stands.
25. slowly lower car just till tires tough the ground.
26. torque wheels to around 80 ft/lbs
27. lower car all the way.
28. all done

 

thanks =] and dgd is a good band.. i liked em better with the old singer though

 

no problem, and i still like them lol

 

is this a hard job? i copy pasted this to my friend who knows more about cars and he just told me about a shop that can do it for 25 bucks..

 

do it yourself, all you need is a jack, jackstand, rachet, 21mm socket, 17mm socket, 14mm socket, hammer, washers, and a nut that is 12x1.5 thats it.

 

Nice detailed tutorial.

Also, yirichie, I would recommend you do this yourself as it's not a complicated job. That way, if it happens again to you or a friend, you'll save yourself that $25 and more knowledge to you.

 

i try

 

it is not hard at all!!! you will spend LESS than 1 dollar for the new stud!!! oh and to add on to the step-by-step... use and open nut, not a closed one.. .usually they will sell it to you when you buy the stud... i've done this many times before, twice on my tC and millions on other ppls cars... its not hard at all and you learn something new of your own car...

 

thats why i said nut and not lug nut

 

just clarifying it a little better for him... ;)

 

i'm a little confused.. the wheel lug is a whole different piece from the washers + the 12x1.5 nut right? so i need to head over to autozone or wherever and pick up a lug and washers + nut? sorry for the noobness