Stripped Wheel studs

[FDavid]

Went to rotate my tires and stripped 2 wheel studs on the front passenger wheels and 1 in the rear passenger wheel. Called my local mechanic and he said Dodges are more prone to this than chevys or fords and proceeded to tell me he highly reccomends the dealer do the repair. This has me pretty ticked off as i am sure the delaer will charge me a pretty penny especially since the truck has a dually rear end. Anyone else have his problem?

Dave F

 

[Bertram65]

That's a bummer, how did it happen?

 

[nickleinonen]

i am pretty sure i have one stripped on the pass. side front... it wouldn't take torque when i last rotated the tires. i have never used an impact to final tighten the wheels. just snugged them up with a gun and then torqued to 130lbs. when i next rotate i will look and see and hopefully it is the nut...

 

[67guzzler]

Went to rotate my tires and stripped 2 wheel studs on the front passenger wheels and 1 in the rear passenger wheel. Called my local mechanic and he said Dodges are more prone to this than chevys or fords and proceeded to tell me he highly reccomends the dealer do the repair. This has me pretty ticked off as i am sure the delaer will charge me a pretty penny especially since the truck has a dually rear end. Anyone else have his problem?

Dave F

Just got the 315's put on a the local Goodyear franchise (Boca Tire -- good folks) and ironically we had just this same topic come up in conversation. The manager said they had a Dakota come in that had a stripped stud and it took them 3 hours to get the lug off. They said that Dodge uses really soft studs for some reason.

 

[JHardwick]

They said that Dodge uses really soft studs for some reason.

That's not a very comforting thought

 

[67guzzler]

That's not a very comforting thought

Nod. I could have the wrong term in there in saying "soft" and probably should modify that by saying "problematic. " He told me he would encourage his customers to do regular rotations and the net result was stud damage even with the utmost of care by his guys.



My feeling from the conversation is that he's a consciencious guy so he feels trapped -- knowing what he's seen should he still encourage the Dodge owners to rotate regularly or not... What frustrates him is that the problem ends up being his because the customer assumes they did something wrong.

 

[jelag]

When I went to change tires on my 04 the first time..... it was 7 or 8 months old and had 60K miles... we have to drive the wheels off the hubs because the wheels were so rusted... I think the only thing that kept the lug nuts from rusting in place was the hub caps.....



We put a liberal amount of neverseze on all the metal parts... including the studs... .



On the second set of tires we had no problems... . So when I took delivery of my 05 the first thing we did was take it apart and neverseaze the hubs to wheels. . and the studs...

 

[JHardwick]

Nod. I could have the wrong term in there in saying "soft" and probably should modify that by saying "problematic. "

Whether they are so soft that they contort or so hard that they fracture, I may have to modify my practices.



I typically use a 3/4" impact to remove the wheels and a 1/2" impact to put the back on. The 1/2" gets me somewhere around 120-130#, because I get just a nudge with the torque wrench set at 140#. Maybe I'll back the impact down, and set the torque wrench at 120#.

 

[rbattelle]

I sometimes use a 1/2" impact to remove the nuts; always a regular torque wrench to put them back on. 2 steps: 100 ft-lb, then 135 ft-lb.



I use liberal amounts of anti-seize. But I'm still a bit fearful every time that I'm going to strip one. And since my hub/bearing assemblies are certainly welded to the calipers, it's going to be one very expensive repair when it finally happens.



-Ryan

 

[Bagger]

<snip>stripped 2 wheel studs on the front passenger wheels and 1 in the rear passenger wheel<snip>

What are passenger wheels?

 

[KCJackson]

What are passenger wheels?

As opposed to drivers wheels... passenger wheels are on the passenger's side.

 

[Bagger]

As opposed to drivers wheels... passenger wheels are on the passenger's side.

Oh! OK! Alrighty then. I've always identified my wheels as LF, RF, LRI, LRO, RRI, RRO, and referred to the "sides" of my vehicles as #1, for left, and #2 for right. It's an aviation thing. Thanks for squaring me away.

 

[fox]

I have had duals come off of a chevy truck. They had been over torqued by tire shops. They use impact wrenches that are 250 ft lbs. They most think the studs are torque to yield!!!



VERY lucky no one was killed.