wheel studs

[Lindsaym151]

I striped out a couple of left hand studs. I need to replace them any suggestions as to where to locate them?

 

[Lindsaym151]

Im sorry, Wheel studs

 

[glcaines]

Erik's http://www.eriksmilitarysurplus.com/ $7.50 each.

 

[wreckerman893]

NAPA or Fleetpride.

 

[73m819]

Any truck shop, will be a lot CHEAPER, some napas

 

[cattlerepairman]

Some people junk all their left hand thread struds and replace with RH thread throughout. Just an uncalled for five cent piece of trivia

 

[mbehne]

Some people junk all their left hand thread struds and replace with RH thread throughout. Just an uncalled for five cent piece of trivia

Funny you say that. I recently had a conversation about doing that very thing. I finally got a torque wrench that will go either way, but was close swapping them out.

 

[73m819]

Left/right rotation for the studs is there BECAUSE the vibration that is caused by the wheel will cause the lug nuts to loosen on the left rotation studs if these studs are changed to right rotation.

 

[glcaines]

Left/right rotation for the studs is there BECAUSE the vibration that is caused by the wheel will cause the lug nuts to loosen on the left rotation studs if these studs are changed to right rotation.

Ditto!

 

[Merc1973]

Edit. Never mind. Found my answer in the TMs

 

[cattlerepairman]

Left/right rotation for the studs is there BECAUSE the vibration that is caused by the wheel will cause the lug nuts to loosen on the left rotation studs if these studs are changed to right rotation.

How, one might ask, do the other hundreds of different truck variants in the civy world manage this risk? No RH/LH threads there.

 

[73m819]

How, one might ask, do the other hundreds of different truck variants in the civy world manage this risk? No RH/LH threads there.

WRONG, ALL big over the road trucks and most trailers have left/right studs,

 

[doghead]

Must have never owned a Chrysler from the 60s-70s.

 

[doghead]

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_t...ft_right_handed_threads_on_wheel_studs#slide4

 

[doghead]

http://www.bridgestonetrucktires.com/us_eng/real/magazines/00v5iss1/ra5.asp

http://www.boltscience.com/pages/failure4.htm

 

[73m819]

Must have never owned a Chrysler from the 60s-70s.

OR dealt with big trucks before

 

[doghead]

I am often amazed at members that are not familiar with big trucks, yet they re-engineer their trucks, like they do know about them.

I think to myself, "hmm, he thinks he's a better engineer than the ones that built the truck."

Rather than re-engineer what they don't understand, they should in fact learn what they do not understand.

 

[mbehne]

Left/right rotation for the studs is there BECAUSE the vibration that is caused by the wheel will cause the lug nuts to loosen on the left rotation studs if these studs are changed to right rotation.

That is why we didn't in the end...also I like to do things correctly, ie the correct torque wrench. Maybe I don't understand things, and the two pop method is safe, as that is what most of my searches turned up for doing it "correctly".

But for discussion sake, which would be worse, an incorrectly torqued lug nut possibly to the point of stretching/failure or replacing with the incorrect/opposite stud/nut combo and being able to correctly torque it. This is what we were discussing...and If I had decided to go that route I was prepared to re-torque frequently.

Mike

 

[glcaines]

I once purchased a 1962 Triumph TR3 with wire wheels. Little did I know that someone had switched the front hubs, left to right. After driving for one day, I lost the left front wheel while driving. The right front knockoff was also loose. Keep the left hand studs.