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Bent wheel studs
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 4:16 am
by Adam in Wa
Four of the five, right front, wheel studs were bent; how is this even possible? There was no visible damage to the hub; maybe someone with a big breaker bar?
Re: Bent wheel studs
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 5:41 am
by Kaegi
maybe a hard life offroad? over tightened with a 3/4" drive gun? that is crazy. I dont think I have had any bent. anything can happen in 75 years tho
Re: Bent wheel studs
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 8:17 pm
by Gordon_M
All I can think of is loose or missing wheel nuts, but then the studs would be damaged as well as bent, and bending four of them would take some doing. Maybe someone lifted the whole truck sharply by just that wheel?
Re: Bent wheel studs
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 2:23 am
by gyknot
Loose lug nuts will do it.
Re: Bent wheel studs
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 3:26 am
by motto
They can be bent when pressing them out if you are not careful. It's even easier to bend them if you have left the nuts on for thread protection whilst driving them out with a sledge hammer.
David
Re: Bent wheel studs
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 6:46 am
by Adam in Wa
Good idea, but they were already bent, that’s why I replaced them... they came out without much effort, and the new ones went in pretty snugly.
Re: Bent wheel studs
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 8:01 am
by motto
Perhaps they had been removed previously to change a brake drum if it is a non-demountable?
David
Re: Bent wheel studs
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 3:57 pm
by Kaegi
motto wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 8:01 am
Perhaps they had been removed previously to change a brake drum if it is a non-demountable?
David
the brake drums are floaters. only held on by retaining screws.