Diy Yourself Wheel Stud Replacement

[turbo_brian]

1) without spacers the wheels hit the caliper.

2) i didnt put the wheels or spacers on, and they must be legal since it has passed 2 rwc's with them on.

3) go f**k your self.

1. Wheels are wrong offset, piss the off, piss the spacers off at the same time, and get proper wheels.

2. Cops wont care if you have God himself change the laws of physics to make them safe, spacers are illegal. RWC means shit, my old 180sx was passed twice with a rust hole 18" long under the passenger door, and a 9cm roung role through the floor, does this mean O should have left the 180 on the road in such an unsafe condition??

3, Nah, not as much fun as when I was 13yrs old, it's kinda lost it's edge a little.

Look, I was driving back from Brisbane to Sydney in my 180sx, had recently done a read brake pad change, but the people changing the pads didn't insert the spacers properly.

Guess what, driving back the car was very wiggly, started at Currumbin, got

worse as I was going, but I blamed it on the slipstreaming of trucks I was doing, 100km/h sitting bout 50cm off the back of the trucks, I assumed the wind draft was causing the wiggle.

Anyway, it got very bad, and by Coffs harbour I thought I better check it out. There was an asscociated noise, so I climbefd under, had a look and found a loose tailshaft.

Tightened the bolts on the shaft, had a coffee, and took off to catch up to the trucks.

Got to Nambucca heads, car still swinging and moving in the rear like a mofo, so I pulled over, relieved myself, and coming back notived the rear tire sitting at an angle of about 50 degrees to the car.

Got the torch out (1am in the morning at this stage) and had a closer look, I had 1 bolt, sheared 2 bolts, and the remaining bolt was bent, and the nut had literally fallen off.

Jacked up the rear of the car, removed both wheels, hammered a stud from the other side to give me 2 studs, hammered the bent stud semi-straight, got the wheels back on.

Called NRMA road-side, and got escorted back into the town area, slept in the car, and went to Bridgestone the next morning.

They had a selection of studs, replaced the 3 that needed replacing on the rear with studs that where similar (either the same or longer with the same thread) and replaced the nuts, so I went home with 3 on the effected wheel, 4 on the other side, and the fronts where fine.

Anyway, long story short, because of incorrectly positioned spacers, my wheel came loose, sheared and snapped studs, and I could have almost lost a wheel. Something to note was that before I pulled over due to busting for a piss, I was doing 130km/h, can you imagine the consequences of 130km/h, loosing your rear wheel??? Not focking pretty!!

Now my advise, get new wheels, remove your spacers, and get your car safe. Yes, here is probably other cars on the road that are in worse condition to yours, but you have illegal components causing a very potentially dangerous issue, which has already made it's self known by stuffing 2 of your studs, so rather than bandaid the problem and fix the 2 studs, Resolve the issue perminantly and become safe

B.

[W0rp3D]

for starters i dont have the money to buy new wheels, if i did i wouldnt been trying to fix the problem, the next best thing is to replace the studs, i know what the problem is and im not about to replace the 2 stripped studs with standard studs so they can strip again, i have ordered 10 longer studs (nobody stocks them and only the fronts have spacers) i know these wheels have been on this car for atleast 4 years without a problem so with longer studs they should last for a few more months.

i know this is not the perfect fix, i would rather get new wheels as im not real happy with these wheels but thats not an option atm so im doing the next best thing.

[nm8u]

hay guys sorry i didnt reply earlier. my bad.

i got these long wheel studs from auto 1 they had longer ones for the car in a book they had there.

the guys matched the patterns and they are 74 mm rather than the original 45 mm.

they really good. they are about 13 dollars for one thats the only down side.

sorry no photos for the walk through. sorry.

hope that helps. later

[just32gtr]

Just changed all my wheel studs to arp wrx upgrade kit on my 32 gtr

Fronts are direct fit but because the studs I chose are 75mm had to remove all the hubs

Rear require drilling out to suit 14.5 mm and to pressed in

Also had rear left wheel come flying off on the highway while doing 110km because some piece of sh@t try to steal my wheels and must of been scared off during the night and been held on by two nuts and they sheard off NOT fun at all to watch the tyre go past you thank god escaped without a scratch and car was fine

[Footnah]

I also just used ARP WRX studs on my GTS-4 hubs.
Fit straight in, but I used a solid tube with a hole drilled in the middle for the hub to sit on/ stud to sit in, so they pressed in straight. (I was using a hydraulic press rather than the tightening nut procedure).

I have pics somewhere, let me know if you want to see them.

[just32gtr]

because i have spacers on my front wheels the nuts only bite by about 5mm, have stripped 2 and neeed to replace them, apparently bursons here in vic have standard ones but dont have longer ones.

any one know where to get longer ones?

Mate I enedup getting my studs from Arp the wrx ones and are direct fit on the rear and front are need a slight taper to press them in. If that helps??

[W0rp3D]

Mate I enedup getting my studs from Arp the wrx ones and are direct fit on the rear and front are need a slight taper to press them in. If that helps??

Thanks for the info, but this thread is now over 5yrs old and my skyline is long gone, soon after this thread i ended up with 3 snapped studs on one wheel so bit the bullet and bought new wheels.