One of those winter jobs I have to do on my Tiger is to replace a wheel stud on my sierra front hub. Is there a particular way to do this? ie heat the area or can I simply bang it out with the hammer! I`m assuming I can leave the hub in place on the car whilst I do the job too?
Thanks
Nick

Smack it with a big hammer Should pop out easy enough.

Wind the new one in with an old wheel nut and some washers. Dont forget to lube the thread before you start, makes the job 10x easier.

David

Wack out with big hammer. Replace
using lots of washers smeared with grease and use wheel nut the wrong way around to pull studs through the hole, try to line the splines up when pulling into position (GOOD LOOK).

Dont miss with that big hammer, cast hubs break. Last tine I did one I used a ball joint splitter to get it out, the screw up 'clamp' type.

I pressed the old ones out with one of these.

Very easy

Yep, ball joint splitter worked on my cortina hubs/studs.

However, be warned. When they first move tthey go with a loud crack!!

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Originally posted by big_wasa
I pressed the old ones out with one of these.

Very easy

Thats the job, but where did you get the fur lined tool box?

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big_wasa - 22/1/08 at 09:48 PM

The wife has always said I think more of my tools than I do her

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snippy - 22/1/08 at 10:03 PM

thanks for the replies so far guys, never thought about using a balljoint splitter.
thanks......

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NS Dev - 22/1/08 at 10:34 PM

hammer is fine, hubs are forged not cast, wont break, still best not to miss though, usually hurts one way or another

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RazMan - 22/1/08 at 11:13 PM

If you've got access to an air impact driver it makes things much easier. Use grease on the threads though.

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blakep82 - 22/1/08 at 11:15 PM

boiling water poured over, then whack with a nice big hammer. sledge hammers work good

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liam.mccaffrey - 23/1/08 at 12:46 AM

i went to the scrappy to get granada studs to replace the tina ones. i used a FBH and a length of ali bar. they came right out in a couple of whacks.

to get them in i lined up the splines and hit them in with FBH. then gave them a quick squeeze in vice with a big socket over the thread

people had warned me about keeping them straight. i didn't have a problem with this method though they are all straight

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02GF74 - 23/1/08 at 08:29 AM

I would go with ball joint splitter. I have found that when separating balljoints, you can wind them up to a point when it becomes very hard to do up any more without somethng bending or breaking. At that point a few taps with a hammer has always released it.

Fitting the studs, you can press them in on a vice but in my experience that does no guarantee they goi in stright so the heap of washers or car wheel and doing up the wheel nuts is the better way.

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snippy - 24/1/08 at 07:51 PM

Guys, I have now successfully removed the dodgy wheelstud using the balljoint splitter method. It worked a treat. Even better was I got a new wheelstud from Ford for just 72p. A nice cheap job for a change!
Thanks for all the above suggestions.
Nick

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