Just wondering here... I have spider trax spacers on my jeep. The bolts have a good amount of red lock-tite on them to hold them onto the axles.

Also, in haste, the bolts were pretty much cranked down pretty well... with an impact wrench . I realize it was a very bad idea, but it was done regardless.


So, if I were to ever want to replace the wheels, would I be out of luck??? Is it too risky to take those buggers off?


Are the studs replaceable? What kind of cost would I be looking at???

 

Pretty sure I saw a write-up here on replacing wheel studs. If not, there are several good videos you can find with a quick search online. Looks easy enough, just pound them out, put the new stud in, pop the nut on and tighten it down to seat the bolt in the hole. Then take the nut off and go to the next one. (never done it, but the video makes it look relatively easy and quick)

Here's a vid I just found
http://www.ehow.com/video_2328000_re...eel-studs.html

Probably take you longer to break the old lugs out of there than to get the new ones in.

 

If you were to replace the wheels, replace them with ones having proper backspacing. Then just yank the spacers off and leave'em off. If anything's screwed up from using an impact wrench (yes we all make mistakes) it'll probably be the aluminum seats on the spacers themselves.

 

Replacing the studs isnt difficult. So if you do snap the studs off when pulling the spacers off, you can change them out with mostly basic tools. The biggest pita is getting the olds ones out.

 

Well, this is a little reassuring. I was thinking about putting some 35's on in the future (next summer at the soonest), but I was thinking today, that maybe I screwed myself over.... I guess I'll have to see next summer...

 

Unless you end up like, uh, think it was Clackey?

 

That sucked! Just recently a guy over here was killed by a tire that came loose from an oncoming vehicle. I encountered one last summer from a semi trailer although I was considerably more lucky. Fckin' scary. Check them for tightness at every rotate if not sooner.