need brake help fast please!!!!!

[Z71paramedic]

No worries man. I really think if you put it all back together with the studs pressed in as far as you can get them that they will seat the rest of the way with the lugnuts.

You don't have any pieces of scrap, another hammer, or anything you can "stack" on the studs to be able to get a more solid hit on? Also, how are you holding the rotor while you try to pound them in? I would lay the whole thing into your wheel turned upside down with the studs through the holes in the rim, that way the studs aren't bottoming out on something that would stop them from seating all the way.

 

[89k5350]

i just have the rotor on top of the hub up side down pounding them from the back

 

[89k5350]

how bout a long socket i dont care about?

 

[Z71paramedic]

You might be hitting the floor which is causing it to bounce back and not seat all the way.

 

[89k5350]

no no the hub HOUSING so its like 6 inches off the floor like the housing all the hub
gears go into

 

[Z71paramedic]

Oh, my bad. Completely forgot about that bit...

Well I'm not sure what else to recommend...I do think you'd be ok putting it together and torquing the lugnuts a few times and putting a few miles on it and repeating. Otherwise I'm not sure other than getting a press/air hammer.

 

[89k5350]

ok im going to try to find stuff in my garage to use to hammer them in but thaks for the good advice and help ill post later tonight my progress cause im not going to sleep till this is done and i still have pads and new calipers and the other side!!! ill add u as a friend for sure

 

[Z71paramedic]

ok im going to try to find stuff in my garage to use to hammer them in but thaks for the good advice and help ill post later tonight my progress cause im not going to sleep till this is done and i still have pads and new calipers and the other side!!! ill add u as a friend for sure

Definitely. Hopefully you can find something that'll do the trick

 

[sweetk30]

get a real mans punch and 3-4lb mini sledge and dont hit them like a girl.

i use to change them all the time on 8 lug stuff try that day in/out .

thay are wheel studs you dont wana be screwing around and get these wrong.

 

[89k5350]

not even an ordinary hammer will fit do i need a pic to show u?

 

[BoondocK5]

get a real mans punch and 3-4lb mini sledge and dont hit them like a girl.

i use to change them all the time on 8 lug stuff try that day in/out .

thay are wheel studs you dont wana be screwing around and get these wrong.

What SweetK30 said^^^^^^^^

Put your big girl pants on and hit that Focker!
I use a 3LB sledge and 1.5 inch diameter, 12 inch long kingpin, there isn't stud that says "no" to it.

Wait till you get a Dana 60 thats been sitting in a field...I had to replace a Snap-on air hammer because of that.

 

[89k5350]

for one its already done and for 2 where am i going to buy that at this time when i ive in the middle of nowhere

 

[Z71paramedic]

for one its already done and for 2 where am i going to buy that at this time when i ive in the middle of nowhere

You wind up getting them in there?

 

[MTBLAZER89]

Yes use a socket or a piece of pipe on the bottom so when you pound on the back of the stud the whole assembly cant move so much. Once its solid they will seat.

 

[Avery4jc]

get a real mans punch and 3-4lb mini sledge and dont hit them like a girl.

Yes use a socket or a piece of pipe on the bottom so when you pound on the back of the stud the whole assembly cant move so much. Once its solid they will seat.

Both these comments sum up what I was going to post.

With a decent punch and a real sledge they go right in. Making sure it's on a solid surface makes just as big a difference as anything though.

 

[Fordum]

The big hammer and punch will work eventually. If you had a deep socket or piece of pipe that the threaded end of the stud would fit in without bottoming out that you could set on the concrete or whatever, it might be better.
That would concentrate the force on that one stud and the hole.

A good bearing press would be best.

On another note, I was a little alarmed by the title of the thread. I had a vision of you heading down a hill with no brakes typing frantically on a smartphone..........

 

[89k5350]

yea i made this thread as i was going down a hill with no brakes hehe

 

[British Slave]

Both these comments sum up what I was going to post.

With a decent punch and a real sledge they go right in. Making sure it's on a solid surface makes just as big a difference as anything though.

Somebody taught you well. Safety glasses, vice grips on the punch. brass punch so there's no hardened surface to hardened surface, work well supported.

 

[jekquistk5]

I need to invest in some good brass punches.

 

[Avery4jc]

Somebody taught you well. Safety glasses, vice grips on the punch. brass punch so there's no hardened surface to hardened surface, work well supported.

I've worked in a machine shop for a little over 5 years (since high school) so it's not my first rodeo.