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probably an easy one for people who know what they're doing ..
one of my wheel studs is stripped so when I try to get the nut off its just spinning, hence, I cant get the tyre off blah blah..

any tips ?

edit: on a gq, if that makes any difference, and its a front wheel, so discs are in the way, access to the back of the stud is pretty limited.

My fist thought wought be an easy out, but then again you'd need the farker to stay still while you drilled it.


Cold chisel and a farkin big hammer?

Use a 4 inch grinder with a cutting disc , 1mm , split the nut , wear gloves , goggle's , Cheers Paul.

MART wrote:Use a 4 inch grinder with a cutting disc , 1mm , split the nut , wear gloves , goggle's , Cheers Paul.

yeh, grinder and then a hammer and chissel to finish it off where the wheel wont get into (without cutting your rim).

Hold the nut with vice grips, and use a diegrinder to grind a slot in the nut then split it... Dont overtighten the new wheelnut...

Nick

thanks for the tips, think I'll go the hack with the grinder and chisel tomorrow.

I'm pretty sure the cause of the stuffed stud is from a year or so ago when a tyre place didn't do the nuts up tight enough and I had the wheel fall off, maybe they didn't replace this stud afterwards when I went back to yell at the and get em to fix the damage. The other worry is that its the hole in the hub thats actually stuffed.. guess I'll find out when I get the stud out.

just ponderig this again, the rims are old alloys with nuts to suit, so there's about an inch of nut that goes inside the rim, so I wouldn't be able to split it all. I guess I could pretty much chop the top off though, then try to pull the wheel off, then cut the rest off once the wheel is off.

hi my sugestion would be to undo all the other nuts get a rattle gun and a friend, hold the rim against the nut with as much pressure as you can and get up it with the gun the nut should pick up a thread and come off

mikmav wrote:just ponderig this again, the rims are old alloys with nuts to suit, so there's about an inch of nut that goes inside the rim, so I wouldn't be able to split it all. I guess I could pretty much chop the top off though, then try to pull the wheel off, then cut the rest off once the wheel is off.

Yeh alloy rims make it hard,

could you get a grinder in the back and cut the back of the stud off?

aside from that, i would be drilling it.

This is going to extreme but is there enough access to remove wheel bearing slide hub off and attack the back off the stud or put a tack weld to hold it , you might have to undo the other wheel nuts and angle tthe tyre to slide calliper of disc or you can grind off nut head to allow access to drill it out , Cheers Paul.

been attacking it for a little while now, bit hard as I'm on baby duty at home so I could only work on it while the ankle bitter was asleep.

I dont have a welder, so trying to tack the back is out, access would be pretty impossible anyway.

Ya pretty much need to keep the head of the nut intact as long as possible so you can keep a shifter on it as the nut just spins when the drill hits it otherwise. So, i think my plan is to go get a 16mm drill bit (the size of the base of the nut) and drill the into the head of the nut untill it falls off the base. Then I should be able to get the wheel off.

ok. I'm 95% there, only about 2mm of nut left to drill out before the head falls off, but now my 17mm drill bit is blunt and doing nothing..

looks like tomorrow I'm off to get some drills sharpened.

are any of the bunnings special electric sharpeners ok ? or should I just get em done somewhere ?

mikmav wrote:ok. I'm 95% there, only about 2mm of nut left to drill out before the head falls off, but now my 17mm drill bit is blunt and doing nothing..

looks like tomorrow I'm off to get some drills sharpened.

are any of the bunnings special electric sharpeners ok ? or should I just get em done somewhere ?

I would get them done somwere as they will sharpen them very sharp and by the time u spend the money on one from Bunnings and learn how to use and become good at sharping them u may as well get them done for u

Rick.

mikmav wrote:ok. I'm 95% there, only about 2mm of nut left to drill out before the head falls off, but now my 17mm drill bit is blunt and doing nothing..

looks like tomorrow I'm off to get some drills sharpened.

are any of the bunnings special electric sharpeners ok ? or should I just get em done somewhere ?

buy a bench grinder and sharpen them your self

grab about 20 blunt drills and start practicing, thats how i learnt (with a bit of guidance from the old man).

Make sure you have a sharp drill bit to compare too, and eventually youl learn how to twist the drill so you get the correct shape.

Job done.. got borrowed some drill bits that weren't shagged, bit more attacking with the grinder and got the nut head off, then cut the stud so it out.

still need to get a new stud in there, but at least I can get that wheel off now.

302 cruiser wrote:hi my sugestion would be to undo all the other nuts get a rattle gun and a friend, hold the rim against the nut with as much pressure as you can and get up it with the gun the nut should pick up a thread and come off

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Bazzle