well, I put a lug back on the wheel and it wasn't threading correctly so I tried backing off of it and it got stuck, suffice to say, the stud broke. I've heard of hammering it out to replace it, someone please give me some suggestions. I'm frustrated to no end. :shit:

 

I'm not for certain if it works the same way on our cars, but you usually just hammer out the stud and it should fall out from the back of the wheel hub. Just push in the new stud being sure to align the groves and it should set in place when you tighten the lug nut.

 

Just echoing jpadilla's post. I've done this on other vehicles and you really just need to bang the piss out of the broken stud to pop it out. I had to remove the caliper bracket , hub and dust/water shield on my truck to get enough room for the stud to pop out. Air hammer might help. If that doesn't work, you'll probably have to take the wholy assy off and use a hydraulic press.

 

sorry, not so easy.

To switch out a stud, you have to remove the entire elbow, take it to a machine shop that has a puller to seperate the hub from the elbow, then you have to replace the bearings, and of course the stud, repack and reinstall.

Ive already been through this... its not funny...

I have one broken stud on each one of my front wheels. it does not affect anything. on a 5 lug, you can have 4 no problem... 3 is even OK, as long as you do not go high speeds.

 

Dayum I was afraid of this. I have a cross thread lug on my car. I have yet to pop it because I want to wait to see how much trouble it would be. I guess I'll have to take it to the dealer and get it done.

 

this happened to me on my EK9. Just hammer it out, it'll take a lil bit of time. But it worked.

 

Might not be that hard. On my other car, the service manual says the same thing. However, when I asked the shop, they said there is usually an access port on the back of the assembly, such that if you just rotate the rotor, you will have clearence to pop the stud out the back. It also helps to turn the wheel. They said you only need to use a press to pop out the stud, if you are interested in saving the stud. Since a new stud is only 99 cents, it's not worth the hassle. And no need to save a broken one. I've replaced studs on 2 different cars, and each time, it was a 10 minute job. I haven't done a rear one though, so don't know about that.... If you have doubts, a tire shop will usually replace it for you, for less then 20 bucks.