twin wheel studs

[jay]

How do I remove the studs from my mk3 1989 luton twin wheel..I have got a snapped stud and the rest on the same axle dont look to great.
do I just heat the hub up and whack the stud towards the diff casing direction?

[100ps_drw_hicube]

yep thats how i done the ones on my van but then took me ages to get the drum off has the heads on yours started to pull through or just generally knackered ??:?

[jay]

the heads on the bolts on the van are ok on the rest of the axles its just on one wheel only..the left side rear felt like a gorrila had done them up..I had to heat them up and 4 came off ok using a 10 foot scaffold bar and 1 had a mashed up head that i cut off and one snapped...so i need 2 studs but i thought i may as well do all 6..dont fancy any snapping off when at the side of the road...

[100ps_drw_hicube]

i remember 4 yrs back we had just had new tyres on the van and heading up to scotland got up the m6 and we got a puncture oh well we tried changing it but snapped the ford brace in half ended up getting towed to the local ford place who snapped all 6 studs trying to get the wheel off 6 studs later we were back on the road but before we left there we got a melco wheel brace 2 part it's huge and undoes the tightest of wheel nuts

[Luke]

we used to have a works iveco and i took it for new tyre fitted, and i said to the guy fitting it can you tighten it up with the wrench not the air gun and he said it dosnt matter its done to a set torque and proceded to show me - what he didnt realsie was that he was overtightening it with the air gun and as soon as he put the torque wrench on it just went click and he said see thats now at the correct torque!!

i tried to explain but he didnt get it so i just put a scaff bar in the back of the cab

[bunston2005]

hi there its easy to do slacken off the handbrake adjusting bar pull out the rubber gromets in the backing plate they are oval shaped flat head screwdriver push the shoes back undo the retaining screws these should be big slotted screws put the wheels back on and pinch up the bolts then pull side to side and top to bottom and eventually the drum will come off. Undo the wheel nuts and hit out the studs from the drum or hub. Replacing is just the opposite. I know ths works as i have done this on my old transit 110 twin wheel and the whole job only took about an hour. any problems and give us a ring on 07891599910 im happy to help by the way a full set of studs and nuts will cost you about £60 from fords you may have to order them as i had to. steve

[100ps_drw_hicube]

by the way a full set of studs and nuts will cost you about £60 from fords you may have to order them as i had to. steve

6studs and nuts ours only set us back £30 ish tho that was 4 yrs back i had 4 studs only on my van last yr they cost just under £15

[jay]

I have already got new studs with left hand thread for the left and right hand for the right and have got plenty of wheel nuts...the studs cost me £95 but that was for the whole van....24 studs in total

[100ps_drw_hicube]

I have already got new studs with left hand thread for the left and right hand for the right and have got plenty of wheel nuts...the studs cost me £95 but that was for the whole van....24 studs in total

thats a good price mate forgot yours was older and had the opposite threaded studs

[jay]

was thinking of just putting right hand threaded studs in all of the axles but the place i got my studs from didnt have enough right hand studs..they only had 14 right hand and 14 left hand in stock..

[ovlov]

was thinking of just putting right hand threaded studs in all of the axles ..

Dont put rh thread studs instead of the lh ones they'll come loose esecially if you on twin rear wheels and not on spigot rims thats the idea behind lh thread to try stop wheel losses

[Rolo]

Dont put rh thread studs instead of the lh ones they'll come loose esecially if you on twin rear wheels and not on spigot rims thats the idea behind lh thread to try stop wheel losses

What's a spigot rim and how many different types are there altogether?

[FredTransit]

was thinking of just putting right hand threaded studs in all of the axles ..

Dont put rh thread studs instead of the lh ones they'll come loose esecially if you on twin rear wheels and not on spigot rims thats the idea behind lh thread to try stop wheel losses

Yeah, right. So that would explain why one of our passenger side front wheels worked loose on our Mk1 on Regant St once. I know the idea behind why this is done, but don't see anybody else's wheels falling off, and don't the new twin wheelers have all the wheel nuts going the same way now?

[100ps_drw_hicube]

my wheel nuts all go the same way and never had one come loose

[jay]

yeah thats what i thought all the newer vans have right hand thread..any way done it now got left hand thread on now