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- Forest Falls, CA
So here's the deal. I had some new tires and rims put on last month. The tire shop that installed them stripped some of the rear wheel studs when they used some clueless kid to torque down the lug nuts with about 5 minutes of cranking on them with an impact gun. They had to replace all 10 rear wheel studs. I figured all was good. I then decided a few weeks back to do some work to my rear brakes. When I yanked the lug nuts I saw about 3/8" of a wheel stud sticking out. I can get about 3 turns on a lug nut before they stop. That's NO GOOD. So I figured I would do it myself and replace them with the correct lenght wheel studs. I ordered a 10 pack of 1/2" x 2" wheel studs from chromoly USA, which is what I had before. Today was the day to do the swap. After a few issues I got the axle shafts out (33 spline chromos) and was ready to yank the short wheel studs and I ran into a problem. I am assuming the same moron who stripped my wheel studs the 1st time threaded on these wheel studs. I have tried with my breaker bar to get these short wheel studs off the axle shaft flange with no luck. (These are the threaded on kind and not the press in kind) I have now destroyed the head of 2 of them. I badly need someone with air tools to come up and help me get these off with an impact gun. I also am confused about one thing. When I yanked the axle shafts the plate in front of the outer bearing was COVERED in RTV silicone. Should the outer seal be sealed with silicone? Sorry for the length of the thread but I wanted all the details provided.