replacing front lugs
replacing front lugs
How do I go about replacing a couple of bad lugs on my 87. Front discs. Thanks
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Check out these two links:
viewtopic.php?t=1435&highlight=lug
viewtopic.php?t=521&highlight=lug
The latter is for the rear wheel - I would check these lugs as well; when I replaced my front, I checked all wheels and found that one was broken in the rear.
If you have two broken on the same wheel, I would definitely replace all four; they are inexpensive ($3.50 each) and certainly worth the time - who knows what kind of stresses those remaining little guys have endured...
I did not use the hammer method, but pressed out the front with the gear puller mentioned in the first link; I was not brave enough to give a whack with a 2# sledge, as I thought I might miss and screw up something. I did use the hammer method on the rear, though. The removal and replacement was really easier than you might think. I used PB Blaster on the studs, but that usage was probably redundant.
I prepared a nice guide with pix and all, but abandoned it when I realized that there were really no tricks at all to the procedure.
A note for convenience, though; take an OE nut to the store and match it with that of the replacement stud. Sometimes the included nuts are a different size than the OE, and you then must have two sizes of sockets (ask me how I know...). The OE are 21mm (at least on my '86).
Tom M.
viewtopic.php?t=1435&highlight=lug
viewtopic.php?t=521&highlight=lug
The latter is for the rear wheel - I would check these lugs as well; when I replaced my front, I checked all wheels and found that one was broken in the rear.
If you have two broken on the same wheel, I would definitely replace all four; they are inexpensive ($3.50 each) and certainly worth the time - who knows what kind of stresses those remaining little guys have endured...
I did not use the hammer method, but pressed out the front with the gear puller mentioned in the first link; I was not brave enough to give a whack with a 2# sledge, as I thought I might miss and screw up something. I did use the hammer method on the rear, though. The removal and replacement was really easier than you might think. I used PB Blaster on the studs, but that usage was probably redundant.
I prepared a nice guide with pix and all, but abandoned it when I realized that there were really no tricks at all to the procedure.
A note for convenience, though; take an OE nut to the store and match it with that of the replacement stud. Sometimes the included nuts are a different size than the OE, and you then must have two sizes of sockets (ask me how I know...). The OE are 21mm (at least on my '86).
Tom M.
T4WD augury?
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"Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' Let us go and make our visit."
T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"Now and then we had a hope that, if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
Mark Twain
Lugs are in
New lugs from the napa store went right in. Thanks