<VV> Re: VirtualVairs Digest, Replacing wheel studs - LM

[AKG]

4 feet of pipe on a breaker bar!!  Sounds like a sure fire way to overstress
the studs to ensure they fail at a very bad time.  There's a reason that the
lug nuts are torqued to 65 ft-lbs not 300 ft-lbs.

The Artful Dodger

> From: "Roger Gault" <r.gault at sbcglobal.net>
> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:32:01 -0500
> To: "Corvair List" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Subject: Re: <VV> Re: VirtualVairs Digest,  Replacing wheel studs - LM
> 
> Joe,
> 
> If you've removed them all, just start all 5 of them back in enough to be
> pretty stable.  Then you can put the drum back on and lock the brakes to
> stop the rotation while you wrench them the rest of the way in.  Four feet
> of pipe slipped over the breaker bar will be worth the price of the pipe.
> 
> Roger
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Taruffi57 at aol.com>
> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:44 PM
> Subject: <VV> Re: VirtualVairs Digest, Replacing wheel studs - LM
> 
> 
>> Well, after combinations of various rachets, 1/2" breaker bar &  straining
> to
>> the limit of my puny physical strength, I was able to "pull" a new  1-5/8"
>> stud into place.  (I cut them down to the size I wanted)  1  down - 9 to
> go.
>> However, I don't think I can do more than maybe 2 a day as  difficult as
> that
>> was.  My compressor is puny so I couldn't use the impact,  but since it
> was VERY
>> difficult to keep the axle from rotating against  breaker bar force, it
> was
>> VERY physical.  (can't set the emergency brake  with the drum off)  I need
>> another answer to this puzzle but now I know it  can be done w/o pulling
> the
>> spindle/lug flange.  Any brilliant ideas out  there?
>> 
>> Joe Dunlap
>> Cen. Florida (still stinkin' hot here)
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