Wheel stud Removal

[126coupe]

I did a search, no luck. Need advise on how to remove wheel studs

[Zeke]

Fronts and rears press out. If you support the hub well on either side of the stud and place on a real solid surface, like concrete, you can drive them out.

You can sacrifice a lug nut if you want to save the studs.

I recommend a press to reinstall, but many have reinstalled by pulling the new stud in with a lug nut. You have to make sure they bottom out or double check your torque when you intall wheels.

It's a tricky business to place the hub on the press bench in order to install real long studs. I did this with some scrap metal billets.

[chrisp]

I hammered mine out. No worse for the wear. I think John Walker gave this recommendation.

I "pulled" the longer ones back in with a steel lug nut and a spacer.

There's a way to aline the rears so they come out without removing the hub. You can reinstall up to a certain length with the same technique. I installed 66mm studs (45mm is stock) and they went back in easily.

Keep searching the info is out there. I used search results before I did mine.

[drl911]

After exhaustively searching this board, I did exactly as ChrisP describes above. I did everything on the car and believe 66mm is the longest you can do on the car.

Dan

[Chuck Moreland]

If you do it on the car, leave the hammer in the tool bench. Those hammer blows are transfered to the wheel bearings.

Use an air chisel with blunt face to drive them out with less abuse of the bearings. A bit of penetrating will ease the job, also heat the hub around the stud (not too hot!).

[ruf-porsche]

You can press them out with a BIG C Clamp. Place a pipe with the inside diameter bigger than the head of the stud at the back of the stud and just tighten the c clamp until it push the stud out the hub.