get creative here people
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get creative here people
Need to save the hub spacers are seized on the studs spacers actually have studs that thread onto the factory studs ive tried days of soaking and double nutting with no luck need more options i am willing to buy new spacers and studs if need be heres a few pics of the problem
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Only one way those things are coming off and that is with the help of a torch. I would double even triple nut those things up toward the top of the stud so that the top nut is flush with the top of the stud, then heat at the base until the stud is cherry red. Put a wrench on there and put pressure to loosen it and give it a good rap with a heavy hammer. The combination of heat, leverage and impact should jar them loose, but if not, then heat them up good and then let them cool. Spray liberally with your favorite penetrating lube (again, Aero Kroil is the best stuff available IMO, but it is hard to find without ordering it online). Let it soak a while and then try again.
The reason I would stay away from heating them up and then dousing them with oil or water is this. When you do that, you do a couple of things. One is that rapidly cooling the stud causes it to stay slightly larger than it was before you heated it. While this may help you get the stud loose, it isn't a good thing if you intend to reuse them for holding the wheels onto an truck that weighs 8,000 lbs when it is empty. The other reason is that doing that changes the molecular structure of the steel. It makes it harder, but more brittle. You're essentially heat tempering the steel studs and changing their strength properties. Again, doing this may help you get the studs off, but I would be leery about using the studs again after that. If you can get new ones, well then have at it, but I thought the whole point of this was to avoid having to get new studs and spacers.
The reason I would stay away from heating them up and then dousing them with oil or water is this. When you do that, you do a couple of things. One is that rapidly cooling the stud causes it to stay slightly larger than it was before you heated it. While this may help you get the stud loose, it isn't a good thing if you intend to reuse them for holding the wheels onto an truck that weighs 8,000 lbs when it is empty. The other reason is that doing that changes the molecular structure of the steel. It makes it harder, but more brittle. You're essentially heat tempering the steel studs and changing their strength properties. Again, doing this may help you get the studs off, but I would be leery about using the studs again after that. If you can get new ones, well then have at it, but I thought the whole point of this was to avoid having to get new studs and spacers.
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We have been through this already. They don't drive out. They are threaded extensions that thread over the stock studs and sandwich the 3" spaces onto his brake drums.
Here's a link to "The rest of the story" as Paul Harvey would say...
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...xle-setup.html
Here's a link to "The rest of the story" as Paul Harvey would say...
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...xle-setup.html
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If you can't separate the stock studs from the studs that go with the spacer, your only recourse will be to cut the head off the stud (or drill them out) from the back side of the hub and then press them out toward the spacer. It's that or buy everything new...
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We have been through this already. They don't drive out. They are threaded extensions that thread over the stock studs and sandwich the 3" spaces onto his brake drums.
Here's a link to "The rest of the story" as Paul Harvey would say...
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...xle-setup.html
Here's a link to "The rest of the story" as Paul Harvey would say...
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...xle-setup.html
some heat and a goot stud extractor or nuts as aforementioned will be the way to go,i guess this is my learning experience for today,thanks! Haha