ive seen those extended wheels studs b4 on cars, what is the correct way(if one) to put them on just the front wheels or on both front and rear? just curious, seen them both ways!

 

The hub needs to be pulled, which (depending on the car) can be easy or a real big pain in the ****. You'll then use a hammer or a small sledgehammer to bang the old ones out, and that same apparatus to bang the new ones in.

 

I would do it right and just take the hubs and your studs to a machine shop and get them pressed in. That's what I did and it was fairly cheap. Just my opinion though. I was a little skeptical of using a sledgehammer .

good luck,

aj

 

If you beat on them with big hammers and such be prepared to replace wheel bearings. Press the hub out, and press the wheel studs in, then press the hub back in. Shouldn't be too expensive deffinately cheaper than wheel bearings.

 

how does it hurt a wheel bearing if the hub is off the car? Just curious...

 

 

Remove spindle nuts, pull off hub. My fronts required a slide-hammer, rears came off by hand.
Pound-out stock studs, pound-in new studs.
Rear hubs went back on no problem, front hubs should seat far enough that you can sink all the threads of a new spindle nut over the end of the axle and then torquing the nut will press the hub in all the way into the wheel bearing. I made a few short, safe trips and re-torqued the spindle nut a few times before staking it.
Not a hard job, but may require a good bit of elbow grease.

 

because some people don't know what they're talking about.

 

You're not making sense?
It's damn near impossible to install wheel studs with the hub on the car...
With the hub off the car the wheel bearing is out of harm's way.
Well some cars have the wheel bearing in the hub and not on the knuckle, but still...

 

Yes it is damn near impossible. I made the mistake of being inpatient and grinding down a bit of the head of the new stud and grinding down a bit of the hub to get clearance for the the new stud to be put in. I will never make that mistake again, I hear pep boys will press it out for free and then it takes 30 sec to take the broken one out and put the new one back in.