nongv

i just mess up my wheel stud and need to replace it. has anyone replace their wheel stud before? i mess up two of the stud. the thread on the stud is all mess up. need help now.

lowriding619

did it on my cutlass not civic but should work the same -go to honda get two studs and take it to a place were brake work are preformed or i think even checker and auto zone and them will do it to but they will push out the old one and press a new one in but you have to supply them with the stud should be at the most $10 each stud hope this helps

lowriding619

also save some money and take the rotor off when you give it to them

duyaknow

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work on our cars is expensive because you have to do more than just push the stud out. You have to remove the entire hub and rotor to get to the stud. It's alot of work. You will need an impact wrench and a axle puller I think. Not sure of the name of the last one, but you need it to pull off the hub, so maybe hub puller..haha.

Theres a few threads about this, with me starting one. I ended up jsut taking it to pep boys, b/c i didn't have or wish to rent an axle puller. Too scared to rip off the axle out of the boot, which would be pretty catastrophic. Do it some other place than pep boys though. I had no choice, since i had only 1 lug left on 1 wheel.

nongv

how much did it cost at pepboys so i can get a price range on it? because if i cant fix it i'm going to have to bring it to s shop to do it.

Kairi

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I did mine at pep boys, they replaced three lug nuts and did an alignment. In the end, I paid about 600 bucks. Good luck.

Kairi

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Oh, and I highly recommend you don't do it at pep boys, since all the employees are *******s, and they take their time with your ride. Taking their time meaning three days to replace three lug nuts.

phatcyclist

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I would say go to honda and get the studs, then replace them somewhere else..

BTW, How did you guys manage to mess up the studs on a civic???

xRiCeBoYx

iTrader: (22)

i'd imagine that the lug nut(s) were overtightened or the heat from the brakes/wheel area kinda fused the lug nut and the stud together and when they tried to take it off, it snapped off... i've done that before with my old car.. many, many times...

what i did when that happened, i just took the rotor off with a rubber mallet and pounded the stud out with a mini-sledge... being very careful about it too... to put the stud in, slip the threaded part through the back, and use the (new) lug nut to pull it through all the way

cambo

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my cousin had to do this. over torqued 1 stud. Honda charged him $230 for it.

xRiCeBoYx

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dayam... that sucks..
was it 230 to replace the stud (inc. parts and labor and whatnot)?

xblkcivicx

I replaced mine myself, took about 2 hours. It isn't that bad if you know what your doing, and you dont need an axle puller. You need to take the hub (just disconnect it from the axle, it slides right out after you remove the nut -use air-) I took out the wheel bearing and the backing plate off, hammer out the old stud, hammer in the new stud and put it all back together. Save you a few hundred if you have access to air tools.

xblkcivicx

Oh yea, i recommend you get a new lug too because it is probably cross threaded, but the stud and lug come to about 17 bux.
Good luck.

wannabeblown

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10 Easy steps to replacing your studs!

1. Pull off the calipers and rotors.
2. Bust off the axel nut. Use a 32mm spindle socket and a big wrench(take out the little notch with a flat head screwdriver first)
3. Take a hammer and a screw driver and hit the axel that the nut was on. It should start to move back.
4. Goto autozone, oreily, or equivilent and barrow an axel puller and slide hammer.
5. Attach the axel puller and slide hammer to the 2 remaining studs
6. Slide the hammer outwards from the hub. HARD. it may take a few whacks.
7. Once the hub is out, hammer out the studs.
8. Push the new studs in until you can see thread, then put an open-ended lugnut on the new stud and tighten until the stud pulls through
9. use a rubber mallet and put the hub back in.
10. put rotor and caliper back on.


Takes about 30 minutes. I had to replace 3 of mine, which cost only $2.88 total.

cdmx

iTrader: (7)

how much torque on a lug nut again?

wannabeblown

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80 ft/lbs

nongv

damn you gus are saying it is like a walk in the park. it looks hard to me but i am willing to try it out. anybody willing to help? i'm in the sacramento area. i have a air compressor. what tools do i need for the air compressor?

xRiCeBoYx

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man.. if it were a week earlier, i'd lend a helping hand.. i was up there (stockton/modesto/tracy area) for about 2 months, and i came back last friday..

nongv

damn i should of look at it sooner. and you would of help me out and it would of been fix already. thanks for offering to help.

xRiCeBoYx

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yea, no prob dude

nongv

well i just took it to the shop to do it. it was a good deal too only cost me 80 bucks. i thought it was going to cost way more than that. well now i'm fine and now i need some 15 steelie. the dude said that it was because of the 14 steelies that i had on. the steelies wasn't touching the rotor all the way so when i drive it would move back and forth mess up the stud. now on to the wanted fourm.