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Can i drive for a few days with 4 out of 6 wheel studs?
I got a flat tire on the rear, and when I replaced it, I busted two of the wheel studs. Required a breaker bar to get the studs off, so clearly put on with a impact wrench!
Unfortunately broke the two studs out of six right next to each other. I'm in the mountains, and it's a long ways to town. Any suggestions on driving like this for a few days? Check them every X miles or hours? Or is this a drop everything and get it fixed? Hoping to not come off the mountain quite yet! |
I've certainly done it. For weeks.... Not on my 4Runner but on several older toyota trucks I have had. My father had a 98 Tacoma with a broken stud on the front for about 5 years. I wouldn't sweat it too much.
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I've heard of it being done before, but my OCD would 100% prevent me from doing it myself!
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Most cars/SUV's only have 5 studs, some even have 4. So its not like the rim is going to fly off, but i would be cautious at higher speeds. Besides the slight imbalance if the remaining 4 are solid you should be fine for now. I would be weary of though terrain as well.
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Any licensed technician would say "no" with good reason. The vehicle was built to run with 6 so 4 makes it unsafe. Has it been done...yes. I would be getting 6 on there as quick as possible.
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You could take one off another wheel and have two with 5/6 instead of one with 4/6. Had to do this trick to get home a long time ago when someone must have loosened all the lug nuts on one wheel in a parking lot and my wheel came off on the highway.
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Hmm, posted back in July and no response. I hope he made it.
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other people posts for advice and doesn't care to at least provide additional info how he ended up doing.
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I would never try such a thing with a 6th gen...
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He logged in last December so he must have made it.
Yes you can borrow a lug nut off another wheel and have 5 & 5 if you were missing lug nuts, but his problem was that he snapped off 2 wheel studs. Kind of hard to replace those when you're on the road. :) |
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