In replacing my tires somehow a wheel stud broke off.  Sears claims it was crossthreaded when I put the wheels on.  They did the balancing of the tires.  In a previous post I found that it takes a #336 metric 10.9--12x1.25 37mm stud.  What is involved in replacing a stud on the rear wheel?  Also what is the danger of temporarily driving with 4 bolts?

Running around with only 4 bolt on a 5 bolt rim won't have a drastic change. It shouldn't be a problem.

Though I'd suggest when you have time, fix it.
Replacing it is rather simple, but time consuming. You will need to have room behind the flange to be able to press it out and press in the next one. A stud is a screw which is pressed fit into its location. There are longitudinal splines which hold the stud in it's location. So if you can press/push the bad one out with the axle in, then be able to press/pull the new one through, you won't have to remove the shaft.
Pressing the old out is the most of the work. Pulling one back through is the easiest. Once you get the old one out, you could press the new one in, or use a spacer and the wheelnut to pull it through.

Clear as mud?

just remove the rear drum and tap the broken stud out with a punch,fit new stud into hole and drive it into place with the same punch!easy!!

Wheel studs have a flange on them. This way you can't pull them out with over torqueing the nuts. You could use a punch, but it usually takes a good couple whacks of a 3.5# hammer to remove a stud. And this is on top of a bench and good layout for hitting it.

In replacing my tires somehow a wheel stud broke off.  Sears claims it was crossthreaded when I put the wheels on.  They did the balancing of the tires.  In a previous post I found that it takes a #336 metric 10.9--12x1.25 37mm stud.  What is involved in replacing a stud on the rear wheel?  Also what is the danger of temporarily driving with 4 bolts?

I thought it was a 12 x 1.50 thread, check before
you put it in, like screw the lug onto the new stud

Wild

I know the sammy's are 12x1.25 I believe the Kicks are the same.  

   Nissan uses this thread pitch and most Nissans have very nice Cadnium plated lug nut on them.  Cadnium = Fancy factory chrome that doesn;t rust chip or peal like the aftermarket ones allways do.

I know the sammy's are 12x1.25 I believe the Kicks are the same.  

   Nissan uses this thread pitch and most Nissans have very nice Cadnium plated lug nut on them.  Cadnium = Fancy factory chrome that doesn;t rust chip or peal like the aftermarket ones allways do.

12x 1.25 is correct I just replaced some of mine.

Mac

OK, My cornfuzion

Thanks, I want to get some new
lugs, this will help  

Wild

my studs are getting worn too.  in my case, dirt sometimes falls off the back of the wheel when putting it on the studs and it gets into the threads.  trying to wipe it off doesn't help much sooo :-/     good now i know what to order. thanks

stu

12x 1.25 is correct I just replaced some of mine.

Mac

Hey Mac, how much did you pay for your studs?  I'm going to need some this winter when I mount my winter wheels.

They are 12x1.25. You need to get the right overall length and the right shoulder length too. When we fitted my rear discs we replaced the studs for longer ones but we warned after we had knocked the original studs out the holes were too worn to fit the original diameter (shoulder) studs back in so we had to ream out and fit some with a slightly larger shoulder.

I got the studs from NAPA.  They were $1.60 each.  The chrome lug nug was $3.00.  To put them in all you have to do is take off the drum(not as easy as it sounds).  They pound right into it.  I'm not sure what fronts would require.