piotrush

Sup guys, wondering if anyone has done this here on an 8th gen. Do you have to remove the hub? Or can you just hammer them out with the hub on the car and put the extended ones on? Thanks in advance?

ironworker

I think a couple of guys have done this. You have to get the studs pressed out, i think you have to replace the wheel bearing too.

02KRacing_JM

Just hammer them out carefully. Then when you put the new studs in, just screw on the lug nut and tighten it so the studs get pressed in tightly. That's pretty much it.

piotrush

Is there enough clearance to put the extended bolt through? I just want confirmation from someone who has done this personally. My studs are 10mm longer than stock.

ironworker

Thats not how these new studs are done. you have to take the hub off get a new wheel bearing and get the studs pressed out.

kgibson16

done it on a 06 si. hubs need to come off. fronts a bitch and the rear is easier. need a slide hammer for the front and the rear hub can be unscrewed from the back of the trailing arm. buy arp studs. i have used blox,skunk2, and other brand x stuff that came with wheel spacers and they all come loose unless u tack weld the stud to the hub in the back. be careful doing the front u cant mess up your wheel bearing putting it back on if your not careful. your actually not suppose to reuse the wheel bearing after the hub comes off but i have always reused cause of the low miles on the bearings.

piotrush

what if you just pull the hub out with a slide hammer enough to clear the extended bolts in? Would you still need to remove he hub completely and a new bearing then? And as for pressing the old bolts out, can you just tap them out with a hammer, and 'press' the new ones in by tightening the lug nut till it pulls it through the hub?

kgibson16

the hub only has like a 1/2" to pull out of the knuckle so it still leaves u with **** clearance. might as well pull the hub off all the way to make life easier taking out and putting new studs in. when the hub is yanked off i just blast the old one with a hammer and they pop out pretty easy. to put the new ones in i didnt feel like going to the store to buy a bunch of open ended lugs to pull them into the hub so i made a this template out of wood where the hub sits face down and theres holes that the studs can go through and hammered them in from the back. if u do it that way u have to be careful and not hit the surface where the ball bearings slide on and make sure the grooves line up with the hub and stud before u hammer them in. make sure there snug in the hub because if it comes loose when u go to loosen your lug nut the stud will spin then your fu**ed. that why its smart to tack them form the back for security but arp's fit really nice and i never had to tack them. but doing the fronts is no picnic, i have a smaller slide hammer so it took alot of elbow grease to pull the hub off so if u know someone with a bigger slide hammer it wil be easier.

piotrush

damn, if I need to buy all new ARP studs its going to cost me a lot more than its worth. I might just be better off buying 15mm spacers with the bolts already pressed in, and just selling the ones I have now, especially if bolts will fail on me like you say. They're Ichiba spacers, which have a good reputation, but who knows what company made the studs. Once you tack the new studs in, can they still be removed in the future?

kgibson16

def. the studs i have installed that required being tacked in work great u just need to tack each stud twice on opposite sides and make sure u have enough heat on your mig to penetrate the metal on the stud and hub. after that they aint going nowhere and if u want to take them out just take a grinding disc and cut through the tack welds and hammer the studs out.

i-VTEC_DOHC

i remember before when i said that you should tack weld the studs and everyone on here raised hell saying that i was wrong and asking why. this thread is your answer for those who doubted me!

EM2Civic

Interesting so honda changed they're studs. Pre 05 you could just hammer in and out easy, sounds like a bit of a bitch now, what uselessness to bring your car to the dealer booo. I've broken skunk2 studs on my eg, I would go Arp as well. Just changed a Csx stud the other day by hammering out and pressing back in didn't have to remove the hub just the rotor?

i-VTEC_DOHC

are you sure about that?? because everyone is saying to remove the hub

kgibson16

stock studs no doubt u can pop them in and out with the hub on. arp's no way.

i-VTEC_DOHC

so ur saying that with the stock studs u can just hammer them out on the front and back? but before you said the hub needs to come off?

piotrush

I think he's saying if you replace the oem studs with extended ones, like I'm considering, you need the hub off bc the extended ones will not fit with the hub in place.

prelude318is

for non-Si model, you can do the studs without removing the hub..

but for Si, you are pretty out of luck...

i am going to replaced the studs on my Si but i dont know if i should reuse the wheel bearing or not..

piotrush

Just curious, if the stud does get loose, how do you take the lug nu off? I seems pretty impossible with the wheel still attached.

kgibson16

extended studs u can sometimes take a vice grip and clamp the end of the stud and use a crows foot socket of something that will fit around the vise grip and loosen the lug. if not u can take a torch and melt out the lug but and wheels is gonna suffer a bit.