ZUKIWORLD Online | Suzuki 4x4 Editorial and Forum
ZUKIWORLD Discussion Forum => Suzuki 4x4 Forum => Topic started by: AJMBLAZER on May 18, 2006, 03:34:41 PM
-
Yeah, so I sold my 31's about an hour ago. Drive home, put the Tracker up on jacks, and start removing the tires and wheels so I can take them into town to have the tires dismounted. :)
Then one of the lug nuts on the right front starts spinning...and just spins freely. I can look through the hole in the back of the knuckle and see the stud spinning. >:(
Thoughts on how to fix this? I'd love to do it tonight, not ruin the wheel, and if possible, not ruin the stud (to late? ???).
-
Bueller?
-
remove the lock and take the baring retainer off. pullthe brake caliper off and remove brake disk with tire atached pute braker bar to hold it from spinning and drill out the stud from behind. or if you have a good srong rim remove all the lugs but the one spinning get some freez in a can freez stud and pull the tire back and forth it shold breke the stud if its a steal rim this could bend the rim its a risk. of you can hit the nut with a hammer you can brake it too if thare is room.after you fix it get some anti seez from your auto parts store and put it on all your studs threds and you wont have this problem again.
-
They also make a tool that will split the nut. Might be hard to get it on a lug nut tho.
George
-
Do you think I stripped the stud or the part it mounts to?
The screwy part is I changed the oil and rotated the tires not a month ago and I ALWAYS use a torque wrench on my lug nuts. I even know the semi-common fact that you SHOULDN'T torque these things to 100ft/lbs like most other vehicles. Just frustrating. :P
Thinking about trying the hammer/snapping the stud trick as it's the only one I can do at the moment. Broke as a joke and the auto parts stores are closed anyways.
-
Easy tapping with a 2 to 5 Lb hammer,
snap that puppy off, this is a good wrecking
yard trick to get locks off
-
Studs are less than $5.
-
If you can reach around the back with a mig gun, tack that stud in a few spots and then take the nut off. Weld it if you need to. Next time you pull the rotor, cut off the stud and replace it, or leave it..
-
Yeah, I was just going to post that.. just a spot weld should hold it from spinning, and you can grind it off later to replace the stud
.. if you need to replace the stud
-
Can't weld....yet I own a stick welder... :P
Tomorrow I'm going to attempt to find a nut splitter and if that fails out comes the angle grinder.
-
If you're good with a cutting torch it's pretty easy to nip off the nut on the outside or the back from the inside.
-
A couple hours of cursing, grinding, hammering, and chiseling and it's off.
Looks like the stud's splines wore down just a bit and meanwhile the splines in the hub wore off as well. It's nice and smooth in the hole. :( Anybody got any options?
Wonder if I could get a bigger stud for this hole and press it in? Probably have to drill it out a bit...ideas?
Oh yeah, it looks like a roller skate with the 215/75R15's on. :P
-
on a samurai hte front and rear studs are just a little diffrent dia. but the fronts are longer than the rears so no go, what I would do is get a new stud and weld a small piece of key stock to the back side of it just to keep it from spinning, should not have to be very long at all and you can take it some place by hand (carry it)to be welded.
-
hmmm....stud still doesn't want to seat and bite all the way. Just spins at somewhere near 60-70ft/lbs...but I was able to get the lug nut off and it didn't spin with the impact. Contemplating pulling one off of the '90 and seeing how it does.
If not I wonder if it'd be possible to weld it THROUGH the hole in the dust shield... :P
-
hmmm....stud still doesn't want to seat and bite all the way. Just spins at somewhere near 60-70ft/lbs...but I was able to get the lug nut off and it didn't spin with the impact. Contemplating pulling one off of the '90 and seeing how it does.
If not I wonder if it'd be possible to weld it THROUGH the hole in the dust shield... :P
That's with a new stud?
-
Yeppers. Brand new NAPA one that looks identical to the other 4 on that particular hub.