Hey all,
recently discovered I was missing a rear lug nut which turned to not having a stud at all surprisingly. I've replaced the front ones before, but this is a lot less clearance space so here is what I did.
Take note: The rear studs are about 4mm longer than the front ones. I got mine from Rock Auto under the Dorman brand, they are normally pretty solid.
Upon removing the rotor and all that other stuff you will see the e brake surrounding the wheel hub.
There is very little space here, so what I did is fished through the stud coming up from the bottom opening. Before I did this though I took two fishing lines and tied them on both ends of the bolt so I would be able to maneuver it kind of like a puppet would be controlled.
This takes a fair amount of playing around with it and jimmying but if you pull the front thread fishing line through the hole it makes it a lot easier.
Picture below for reference
Once its through, the procedure is the same as the front, either use a bunch of washers or a lug stud pull tool and tighten until the back end of the stud is flush with the hub.
If I had to do this again I would try to align the broken one a lot closer with the opening of the e-brakes but I was short on patience and it was too hot out.
recently discovered I was missing a rear lug nut which turned to not having a stud at all surprisingly. I've replaced the front ones before, but this is a lot less clearance space so here is what I did.
Take note: The rear studs are about 4mm longer than the front ones. I got mine from Rock Auto under the Dorman brand, they are normally pretty solid.
Upon removing the rotor and all that other stuff you will see the e brake surrounding the wheel hub.
There is very little space here, so what I did is fished through the stud coming up from the bottom opening. Before I did this though I took two fishing lines and tied them on both ends of the bolt so I would be able to maneuver it kind of like a puppet would be controlled.
This takes a fair amount of playing around with it and jimmying but if you pull the front thread fishing line through the hole it makes it a lot easier.
Picture below for reference
Once its through, the procedure is the same as the front, either use a bunch of washers or a lug stud pull tool and tighten until the back end of the stud is flush with the hub.
If I had to do this again I would try to align the broken one a lot closer with the opening of the e-brakes but I was short on patience and it was too hot out.
