boosted7

Well the other night while taking a turn doing about 40km/hr she started to understeer then bang I see my front left rim rolling across the street. I managed to pull it to the side of the road. Recovered the wheel borrowed 4 lug nuts from the back wheels. 2 studs were broken, 2 bent and 4 were usable enough to put the wheel back on and limp it home slowly.

Anyways, I'm ordering a new rim today, lugs, studs etc. I haven't got it apart yet but I'm wondering if it's possible to knock the studs out the back of the rotor and slip the new ones in, or do you have to pull the whole assembly?

Oh it's a 93 W250...

jogl

I'd just take the rotor off.

Leaving it on would be the easy way. In my experience the easy way usually ends up taking longer and costing more.

Good Day,
JP.

archer39

have to pull the whole thing off

pulltilbroke

Yep, pull the whole mess off

Changing the stud ain't to hard of a job, take me about 30min start to finish on one side

archer39

as long as you have a press

pulltilbroke

You don't need a press

A 2lb sledge and a drift punch thats how I did all 16 on the front of my truck

DieselSmith

sledge hammer works wonders. and when removing old ones, I spin the lugnut onto the stud when i'm hammering them out, that way the nut takes most of the force and not the stud.

Haulin_in_Dixie

And don't forget to go around and tighten the lugs, that is what happened. They loosened up.

pulltilbroke

BTW do you got aluminum wheels on your truck

If so you always want to retorque em after 50-100 miles

flytrip

"At which point the left front wheel fell off, it fell off, it fell the %$#@ off, turning my van into a tripod, and spinnin' me into a demention of ****** off I've never been to before in my life!"

77machomopar

same thing happened to me but my studs all snapped off.

pulltilbroke

HAHAHAHA

Gotta love Ron White

Richie O

I lost one off my 1/2 ton chevy. It was the drivers rear. I was doing at least 60 and the truck droped down and hooked the tire on the fender and then rear bumper. I thought I was going to flip over frontwards. I bet the truck jumped up about 6 feet when it hooked the rear bumper. ( UM, dad,,,, can you come get me??? and bring the trailer. )

PapeCAT

Sounds like the w200 front ends are hard on wheel studs. Have you considered upgrading to 9/16" studs.

archer39

me to but i must not have as much ambition to do a side in 30 mins .