Ok i have a 02' Es all stock. what happened was the last shop that put my lug nut on last cross threaded one stud. So im on my way to get new rotors..... and i get a flat 400 ft from the auto parts place..... ok put on doughnut, and nope that some how got flat with in 3 weeks of me last using it..... wait ....... get a ride to get a new tire. come back put it on and its real rough. So i get my parts and go to a friends house to put the rotors on...

so again the one lug is really tough getting off, i slap the new rotors in and go to put the lug back on and its toasted i torque and torque and snap i go flying forward and the stud is snapped.

so i go and get new ones and search real quick on how to do it to make sure (since im used to American cars and classic cars) and find the thread on here (the only one that really matched my search) so i go to town disassembling everything again.... well i can easily tap the studs out but when i try to take them out they hit on the dust shield... so i look and i didn't notice any bolts to remove that... it looked to me that the only way was to remove the spindle nut and take the hub off then replace them ( was going to do them all while im at it) but im doing this with just the bare min tools i do have a 32mm socket and a large ratchet to remove the nut... my problem is that it wont budge!!!!! ive givin' it everything i have and so has a friend... nothing..

is there a clip/pin/retainer of some sort i dont see?? i know most cars have a cotter pin my car doesnt seem to have it

would an impact wrench fix the spindle nut problem??? (if so ill have to go rent one... it suck moving away from your parents house a few states away now i need to fix stuff and dont have all the tools my dad had)

ive been looking more online, and am i just being stupid in thinking that turning the wheel wouldnt do squat and that the dust shield wouldnt magically move?? should it turn the wheel??? does that some how give me room to remove the stud??.... if so im going to be sooooooo pissed


sorry about the lengthy post its just been a crap day and tomorrow i need this fixed ( i have appointments to go to that i missed today because of this stuff)
any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

 

The service manual shows that you should remove the entire caliper assembly, and at the caliper's location is a gap in the dust shield. Rotate the hub so the stud you want to remove is at that gap, then it should come out.

If that doesn't work, then you'll have to remove that spindle nut. It's assembled at 181 ft/lbs, so you'll definitely need an impact to get it off.

 

Oh, I remember the joys of having to beat out an old broken stud in my Ford Escort. When it got right down to the dust shield, I said f it and hammered it off! LOL Put in the new one, and never did have a problem w/o that shield.

 

Oh, I remember the joys of having to beat out an old broken stud in my Ford Escort. When it got right down to the dust shield, I said f it and hammered it off! LOL Put in the new one, and never did have a problem w/o that shield.

 

Oh, I remember the joys of having to beat out an old broken stud in my Ford Escort. When it got right down to the dust shield, I said f it and hammered it off! LOL Put in the new one, and never did have a problem w/o that shield.

 

ya thats exactly what i did.. infact i just hammered out one stud that was there (in the cut out of the shield) so i didnt have to get off my butt and put in in neutral and spin the hub..... anyway its not hitting the main part of the dust shield its actually hitting the small thin piece of it that sits right behind the hub (the part thats actually wraps around the whole assembly) thats why i would have to pull the hub becasue of that damn thing......

crap so it looks like ill have to go find a tool rental place and go get an impact to do the job any one in phoenix area want to let me borrow theirs? hahah jk

 

OMG, I've hear and seen double posts before...but triple posts!!! LOL I didn't even hit the Post Quick Reply button that many times, only once I'm sure of it.

MODs, feel free to delete the unnecessary posts!

 

hhaha. Im going to have to replace one of my studs soon so this was good to bring up. The center hub nut is insane. need like a $30 socket and a impact wrench. I had to take it off to replace my CV boot. You can rent those kind of things from a autozone.

 

Ya this was a fun time so i did some minor searching and well if someone does rent a impact its only air powered not electric which i was afraid of knowing that ive only seen air powered ones. but home depot sells two electric models so i had some hope but ya no one rents an electric one and i dont have a compressor so i took it down to big O (only because they where the only ones that could get me in today i went for 2.5 hours from shop to shop trying to get in one today) and they did it for $75 since i had all 8 studs i just gave them those and charged for the labor (they also put on the other new rotor for free [they had them off already] because i didn't get to it from the broken stud and i was beat after that day to even try the other side)

but it def requires the spindle nut being removed which sucks but oh well

everything on this little adventure is fixed but please read my other post i just put up on the persistent slight shake im still getting

 

For what it's worth, electric impacts are really not all that useful. They really don't go above 250 ft/lbs worth of power. A bolt that's on that tight will probably need a lot more breaking force than that. Time to make friends with a neighbor who has an air compressor.

 

haha ya i just moved into a condo last week so not to easy to do that im probably going to just buy a small compact upright (any recomendations on the smallest compressor with enough psi to run air tools and that wont crap out after 30 sec. of using a impact

 

the studs can easily be replaced WITHOUT removing the spindle nut OR even removing the dust shield. they just kinda have to be finagled out and back in. kinda have to bend the shield back. ive done this several times.