Hey guys! So long story short, I cross threaded a lug nut and trashed my stud on my rear wheel and want to replace all of them with extended studs. I was wondering if anyone in the bay has done this and could help me out. I got a good idea of how it's done but could always use some help. I would gladly come to you if someone would want to help. Thanks guys!

 

That sucks. Good luck with the replacement as it's a royal PITA. You have to disconnect all of the parking brake stuff and putting it back together can be a btich. I can't recall all of the details because I did it on my '93 Legacy turbo wagon in ~2004 (in my apartment parking garage ).

-Brian

 

You are wanting to replace the studs on all four hubs?

 

autozone, oreaily sells replacement studs for like 2 bucks. its easy to replace that one.

Jack car up, take wheel off, take caliper off, take rotor off, take off abs sensor, allen tool unbolt the abs sensor ring, grab a hammer and beat the crossed stud out, make sure its on netural, rotate the hub until the stud falls out. Put the new one in turn it to where the teeth catches and gun the stud back in.

hmm.. well its like that.. maybe a little more work for someone that hasn't don it before.. if anything just take it to the shop. it shouldn't cost you that much just to replace one stud.

 

Super simple man. I just replaced 2 in about an half hour. They are $1.99 each at autozone and had to say that I had an 06 WRX to get the studs. They are the same on the 2008+.

Mine were super bad due to an air gun mistake.

 

Thanks Mike! I had a air gun mistake as well but done by Americas tire. I have a buddy local that had put on extended studs in the past on his car. He said he would help me out. I am going to do extended studs in the rear just for the heck of it since he has done it and said it isn't to bad.

 

if anything just take it to the shop. it shouldn't cost you that much just to replace one stud.[/QUOTE]

Yeah I thought it wouldn't cost that much but EQ tuning told me two hrs of labor to fix it. I said F*** that!

 

Guys replacement studs and extended studs are 2 completely different amount of time. It took me 4.5 hoirs to do rear extended arp studs. But takes me 5 minute if I were to I stall factory studs

 

The fronts are relatively easy. The rears...not so much.

-Brian

 

Yeah I thought it wouldn't cost that much but EQ tuning told me two hrs of labor to fix it. I said F*** that![/QUOTE]

Hah thats EQ .im not going to bash on any shop, it is ridiculous how much they can charge for something simple, but thats what you are paying for...quality and a peace of mind.