Thought I would share the job I just completed. Had to go to the airport to pick up my mother in law, figured I would rotate my tires before I went as they were overdue and the trip is a couple of hundred miles.
Well I started to break the wheel nuts loose, they were all super tight and they were tight all the way off. After trying a couple I decided to not do the rotation at this time. I then went to re-tighten the nuts, they went down hard all the way then one of them broke off!! Damn, so while I consider driving on three nuts I am tightening the others, then SNAP another breaks off!
So it looks like I am taking the minivan to get MIL.
Today I take things apart to see what's up. All the nuts are hard to take off. I popped the broken studs loose before I even took the wheel off. I then removed the caliper and torque plate. Luckily they thought to give access to remove and install studs without removing the hub, I had to tap them in with a punch as it wasn't a perfect alignment. I then went through the painful job of seating the studs, I was drawing them in with a nut and spacer as per the Toyota service manual. It was not going well and I was worried I would break the new studs. I tried a hammer and punch but there was not really enough room to get a good hit, so back to the nut and spacer and big ratchet. I finally got them all the way in and seated.
With the hard part done i proceed to change the brake pads. I popped for a $26 hardware kit as I somehow lost one of the anti-squeal springs. I also bought all new lug nuts front and rear and a cheap tap and die set (studs are 12X1.5). I ran the die down each stud, a painfully slow process, the new nuts spin right on now. Torqued the wheel nuts to 76 ft lbs.
Next week I will run the die down the rear studs and replace all the lug nuts. Kind of a pain in the butt job but I got it done! :clap:
Well I started to break the wheel nuts loose, they were all super tight and they were tight all the way off. After trying a couple I decided to not do the rotation at this time. I then went to re-tighten the nuts, they went down hard all the way then one of them broke off!! Damn, so while I consider driving on three nuts I am tightening the others, then SNAP another breaks off!
So it looks like I am taking the minivan to get MIL.
Today I take things apart to see what's up. All the nuts are hard to take off. I popped the broken studs loose before I even took the wheel off. I then removed the caliper and torque plate. Luckily they thought to give access to remove and install studs without removing the hub, I had to tap them in with a punch as it wasn't a perfect alignment. I then went through the painful job of seating the studs, I was drawing them in with a nut and spacer as per the Toyota service manual. It was not going well and I was worried I would break the new studs. I tried a hammer and punch but there was not really enough room to get a good hit, so back to the nut and spacer and big ratchet. I finally got them all the way in and seated.
With the hard part done i proceed to change the brake pads. I popped for a $26 hardware kit as I somehow lost one of the anti-squeal springs. I also bought all new lug nuts front and rear and a cheap tap and die set (studs are 12X1.5). I ran the die down each stud, a painfully slow process, the new nuts spin right on now. Torqued the wheel nuts to 76 ft lbs.
Next week I will run the die down the rear studs and replace all the lug nuts. Kind of a pain in the butt job but I got it done! :clap:
Once you cross the threads, they're trash; never mind the lube. So now I use a torque wrench every time. We'll see for sure.
