Recent content by TheCarbideRat

Wheel stud install tool: http://www.lislecorp.com/divisions/products/?product=97 You can do it the ugly way w washers and the lug nut [chews up the lug nut usually] but this tool just gets it done budda bing. Maybe they have a loaner at your parts store.

But then again, our guns opoerate in the 800 - 1,000 ft lbs range so maybe your lugs would zip right off, nobodyn knows.

Snap those sh*ts clean off, install new. Installing new studs is well within DIY range and Im sure GJ members will assist you or link you to a wheel stud thread. Guys are awesome and let me be clear I learn some things here on GJ, Im not a knows-it-all. If you went the "tire rotation route" at a...

Hey good find! Nice to have a scientific anecdote backing this up. Im never returning anything to lowest setting again, no time to lose in the shop plus I have a cal cube, a cheap one maybe but it came with certification and as I had posted Ive played around with it alot and it seems bang on...

DGC = Dodge Grand Carabland, i mean van.

They're too bulky and costly to have around, they are a specialty tool and do have their place. And you probably can use them to take a wheel off too who knew

We don't use those they wont fit into most [all?] lug wells. Problem wheels get a 3/4" gun, a 56" breaker bar and some heat maybe.

Never broken a stud but - broken studs do get broken. Ive had lug nuts come off with my impact that that had the broken stud section still inside that nut. Maybe on heavy equipment with 1" + studs this isn't prone to happen, for several reasons usually trained personnel are tightening them in...

To the OP: check all the lugs / studs on your vehicle, you might want to use a commercial garage to do this so damage can be assessed and a repair bill made out to be presented to the individual who caused your whole problem. Best luck to you.

You got your vibration, you got your heat, chemicals, and you got your brute force. An artful combination of these is what the job will take in bad scenarios like this one. Might not need all 4 but these applications are traditionally used. The parrafin method is an old timey approach that...

I'm sure you do have rust, it's a brother on brother razz, that's all. ;) I like to be brotherly! Dangit! We might have a LEETL more rust here though. ;) You can get salt probs too out there near your coast im sure. I had to replace the brake lines in their entirety on a Jeep a little while...

And if you have to google plasticity, dont backtalk me. Disagree yeh sure, WHATEVER but understand your knowledge level first.

Snap the ***** off, needed a stud anyway if it snaps and not bcz you snapped it, this has to with yield factor and plasticity.

No problem w your post bro. Just,....u know, trollin for dollars Lol

California guy inquires about rust ^ Rust belt guy smirks.....:D