{"id":4128,"date":"2012-12-02T00:13:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T08:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=4128"},"modified":"2012-12-02T00:15:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T08:15:40","slug":"arp-extended-wheel-studs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2012\/12\/arp-extended-wheel-studs\/","title":{"rendered":"ARP Extended Wheel Studs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m starting to get back into the groove of things. It has been a couple months since I last turned a wrench – now the project beckons. There will be much to do. I’m taking it one step at a time and picked the wheel studs to tackle first. <\/p>\n

The reason why I’m changing out the front wheel studs is because I foresee the use of small spacers. I won’t be touching the rear wheel studs because they are a pain to replace (entire hub needs to be disassembled) and I will not need spacers in the rear. <\/p>\n

First step was to remove the caliper from the hub and take off the rotor. I’m wondering if the front wheel studs can be replaced without touching the rotor. I did it anyway because it was so easy, and allows greater access. <\/p>\n

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Next I used a 2lbs hammer to bang out the old studs. A few well-placed whacks and they popped right out. Here’s a comparison of one of the OEM studs versus the new ARP’s, which are 1″ longer. Since I don’t plan on using spacers thicker than 5-10mm, I’ll have to run extended\/open-ended wheel lug nuts.<\/p>\n

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To install the new studs, I greased up the splines and stuck it through the hub. To pull it through, I used a couple washers with a stack of nuts and then tightened down with a lug nut. This procedure was a major impetus to buy the impact wrench<\/a>. A lot of force was needed to fully seat the stud. If I turned the lug nut by hand, I would have to figure out a way to stop the hub from rotating. The impact wrench made it easy.<\/p>\n

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I’m starting to get back into the groove of things. It has been a couple months since I last turned a wrench – now the project beckons. There will be much to do. I’m taking it one step at a time and picked the wheel studs to tackle first. The reason why I’m changing out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4135,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions\/4135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}