View Full Version : Where to get wheels studs pressed in?
Preferably Cumming/Buford area.
Thanks.
You don't need to press wheel studs in. All you need to do is knock the old ones out from behind (just remove the caliper so you can get them out the back) and hit them with a hammer. Then feed the new ones in from behind. Find an open lug nut that will go all the way down the stud and just screw it on which pulls the stud into place.
Any questions?
I tried that and ended up stripping a stud and it hadn't even gone all the way in yet. There was still space between the end of the stud and the hub.
I'd rather be safe and take the hub off and press them in.
Well if you really wana do it that way I can do it for you at Tora Motorsports in marietta... May be kinda far for you but if you're willing to make the drive out just let me know.
If you're going to the trouble of pulling the entire hub out you can probably just whack them in with a hammer from behind.
Either way let me know.
Whacking them in with a hammer sounds like a good way to get them in crooked.
Yeah that's a bit of a drive.
omgwtfbbq
08-19-2007, 02:37 PM
Did you thread it correctly? You have to take it very slow, and if you feel any resistance back off and wobble it around if possible. My friend messed up a few hubs trying to put extended studs in.
Wheel studs isn't rocket science. Once they're all the way in they will set themselves straight. Even if theyre still a tad crooked, after you put the wheel on and tighten the lugs down to spec it will pull it streight.
You say you stripped the stud. Are you sure that the splines in the hub aren't stripped? These are usually the first to strip over the actual stud itself.
I didn't feel any resistance. It felt normal so I kept going.
Yeah it was the stud that stripped. You can see it.
I already got new ones from PDM Racing. I just want to get the job done today.
omgwtfbbq
08-19-2007, 02:43 PM
Your hubs are probably just stripped then. You could weld the studs into place. I'm not sure how well that would work out though.
Cool, good luck and hope you find a solution. Thats odd the studs went first.
I didn't feel any resistance. It felt normal so I kept going.
Yeah it was the stud that stripped. You can see it.
I already got new ones from PDM Racing. I just want to get the job done today.
Yeah, I'm guessing that your hub is partially or completely stripped as well. Sunday isn't the best day to try to find somewhere to do this... Most shops with presses are closed.
Your hubs are probably just stripped then. You could weld the studs into place. I'm not sure how well that would work out though.
Cool, good luck and hope you find a solution. Thats odd the studs went first.
One of our members had us weld his studs on since he was at a meet doing the 5 lug conversion if i remember correctly. It worked but I wouldn't recommend it...
omgwtfbbq
08-19-2007, 02:59 PM
Yeah, I'm guessing that your hub is partially or completely stripped as well. Sunday isn't the best day to try to find somewhere to do this... Most shops with presses are closed.
One of our members had us weld his studs on since he was at a meet doing the 5 lug conversion if i remember correctly. It worked but I wouldn't recommend it...
That was Omgtofu. He was doing a 300zx brake conversion using wheel spacers for a four lug 240, 300zx make brembo rotors that he drilled to four lug. He didn't want to have to buy 5 lug pattern wheels. When he would go above a certain speed it would start to vibrate really bad. I think the welds eventually broke and he put his stock brakes back on.
I had to do this a while back and I did them the same way flip was talking about. I hit them in with a rubber mallet and then put a lug nut on the other side and tightened down until the stud was all the way in.
v-empire
08-19-2007, 05:12 PM
victor.
use a deep socket and impact gun.
make sure the back of the stud is flat and impact the thing in. it wont strip. unless you are using the wrong wheel nuts/lugs.
takes about 10 seconds for each lug nut.
good luck
victor.
use a deep socket and impact gun.
make sure the back of the stud is flat and impact the thing in. it wont strip. unless you are using the wrong wheel nuts/lugs.
takes about 10 seconds for each lug nut.
good luck I have no access to an impact gun.
If you're going to the trouble of pulling the entire hub out you can probably just whack them in with a hammer from behind. So I tried whacking them in with a hammer while aligning it with the brake rotor to make sure they go in straight.
I got them about halfway in but the studs are starting to look like shit on the backside.
use a rubber mallet instead of a hammer. it doesn't fowl up the studs like a hammer can possibly do.
Find someone that does. That will be easier to find on a saturday than a press...
use a rubber mallet instead of a hammer. it doesn't fowl up the studs like a hammer can possibly do.
If you're hammering studs out, you shouldn't use them again so any hammer should do... You really gotta bang them so rubber mallet would make it quite difficult in most cases.
I have no access to an impact gun.
So I tried whacking them in with a hammer while aligning it with the brake rotor to make sure they go in straight.
I got them about halfway in but the studs are starting to look like shit on the backside.
Once they go in all the way, they will be streighten themselves out... Its so much easier just to pull them through with a lug nut. Maybe get them started with the hammer the pull them the rest of the way through with a lug nut...
omgtofu
08-19-2007, 09:53 PM
ya welding doesnt work, the studs are aluminum, the hubs are iron. if you can get the hub off, its not that hard to get them in straight. just make sure you use studs that are the right size, thats the main thing...
If you're hammering studs out, you shouldn't use them again so any hammer should do... You really gotta bang them so rubber mallet would make it quite difficult in most cases.
oh, i thought he was saying he was hammering the new ones back in from the back side. yea, if you're hammering them out it definitely doesn't matter what happens to them on the way out, just as long as they come out.
oh, i thought he was saying he was hammering the new ones back in from the back side. yea, if you're hammering them out it definitely doesn't matter what happens to them on the way out, just as long as they come out.
Ah, gotcha. Yeah if you're hammering them out, metal hammer works. If you're hammering them in, dead blow hammer or rubber mallet is best... I think he was talking about hammering them in. Good call. :)
I got them in with a hammer. They all went in straight. Thanks for all the help everyone.
I got them in with a hammer. They all went in straight. Thanks for all the help everyone.
Great! Glad it worked out.
JJ Alfano
08-21-2007, 03:50 PM
that was the most information on wheel studs ive ever seen in my life.
i remember the first time it took me like 2 hours cause i had never taken brakes apart before lol
that was the most information on wheel studs ive ever seen in my life.
i remember the first time it took me like 2 hours cause i had never taken brakes apart before lol
:)
Always better to give more information then less! :bump:
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