snippy
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| posted on 22/1/08 at 09:17 PM |
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Best way to replace wheel studs?
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
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flak monkey
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| posted on 22/1/08 at 09:21 PM |
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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
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madteg
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| posted on 22/1/08 at 09:24 PM |
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studs
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).
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r1_pete
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| posted on 22/1/08 at 09:25 PM |
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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.
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big_wasa
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| posted on 22/1/08 at 09:26 PM |
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I pressed the old ones out with one of these.
Very easy 
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GaryM
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| posted on 22/1/08 at 09:28 PM |
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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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r1_pete
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| posted on 22/1/08 at 09:34 PM |
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quote:
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
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| posted on 22/1/08 at 09:48 PM |
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The wife has always said I think more of my tools than I do her
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snippy
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| posted on 22/1/08 at 10:03 PM |
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thanks for the replies so far guys, never thought about using a balljoint splitter.
thanks......
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NS Dev
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| posted on 22/1/08 at 10:34 PM |
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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
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| posted on 22/1/08 at 11:13 PM |
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If you've got access to an air impact driver it makes things much easier. Use grease on the threads though.
Cheers,
Raz
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blakep82
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| posted on 22/1/08 at 11:15 PM |
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boiling water poured over, then whack with a nice big hammer. sledge hammers work good
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liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 23/1/08 at 12:46 AM |
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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
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| posted on 23/1/08 at 08:29 AM |
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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
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| posted on 24/1/08 at 07:51 PM |
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JOB DONE!
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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