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#11216 11/11/2003 12:59 AM | Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 272 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 272 | I have several broken lugs on my rear axle. I am guessing that these can be replaced by pounding them out and driving in new ones. Does anyone have any tips? Is this gonna bend all up when I start hitting it? Should I use a drill?
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#11217 11/11/2003 1:22 PM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,115 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,115 | I don't think that you pound the new ones in, do you? I think that you use a lug nut and some spacers and pull them in to place. | | |
#11218 11/11/2003 5:02 PM | Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 2,773 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 2,773 | Metalman is right on removal, truckernix is right on installation. Also, replace all of the studs, not just the broken ones. Someone obviously had them too tight and the ones that aren't broken are probably stretched beyond their yield strength.
Fred
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#11219 01/26/2004 7:25 AM | Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 272 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 272 | Ok
I tried to pull the new ones through with no luck i stripped them out.
Pounding them in did not work either.
Any other suggestions?
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#11220 01/26/2004 6:26 PM | Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 452 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 452 | Never tried it, but it seems to match some common practice: get a Big A** C-clamp and a socket that will fit over the lug when it is fully inserted. Tap the lug in, put the socket over the threads and th clamp around the whole business. Tighten the clamp. It may help to put the lugs in the freezer the night before. If your shop isn't heated, aim some kind of space heater at the flange for a while as well. Freezing the lugs won't help if the truck is already -15C. WARNING: if your lugs stripped while trying to pull them in, make sure the clamp is the BIGGEST one that will fit in the available space!
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#11221 01/26/2004 8:22 PM | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 | I use a combination of pulling them in with a nut and tapping them in from behind. Be sure to lube the threads with oil first. Tighten the nut to what you would on the wheel and then give the back of it a few taps, and repeat until it is in. It has always worked for me. The freezer idea helps a lot.
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#11222 01/27/2004 5:22 AM | Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 2,773 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 2,773 | If all else fails take the axles and lugs to a shop with a press. A station that I worked at in high school had a big vise with holes bored in it for R&R u-joints. It also worked for studs.
Fred
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