So I did the front brakes and had the rotors turned on my aunt's Rendezvous today... not too daunting of a task, right?
Wrong.
I broke 2 adjacent studs, and a third has the starter portion of its threads messed up. I knew I should've followed my better judgment and had the guy take off the nut soon as I saw him trying to run it down with an impact ](*,) #-o Luckily they said they would replace them "this time", otherwise we would have had other issues.
My question is this: how often do you really have that bad of an issue with wheel studs? I mean I know the threads stretch a little when you torque them down, and over time they may not be as easy to turn as originally, but so bad that they have to be run down with an impact, then want to break when you try to remove them? This was on one hub, the other side didn't put up as much of a fight, though there was still some difficulty (couldn't turn it with my fingers, but wasn't much problem with a ratchet).
I didn't get any pictures of it, but the 2nd one that broke was the first one counter-clockwise from the already-broken one.
Wrong.
I broke 2 adjacent studs, and a third has the starter portion of its threads messed up. I knew I should've followed my better judgment and had the guy take off the nut soon as I saw him trying to run it down with an impact ](*,) #-o Luckily they said they would replace them "this time", otherwise we would have had other issues.
My question is this: how often do you really have that bad of an issue with wheel studs? I mean I know the threads stretch a little when you torque them down, and over time they may not be as easy to turn as originally, but so bad that they have to be run down with an impact, then want to break when you try to remove them? This was on one hub, the other side didn't put up as much of a fight, though there was still some difficulty (couldn't turn it with my fingers, but wasn't much problem with a ratchet).
I didn't get any pictures of it, but the 2nd one that broke was the first one counter-clockwise from the already-broken one.