Lost a wheel

Mitsubishi vans are the same,wheel studs like to snap if overtightened,very easy to replace them though.

The D4 nuts, if overtightened seem to sort of stretch,the studs don't break,well mine didn't.i just had to replace some nuts once,thanks to a tyre shop.

As a teenager, a brother of mine broke all the studs on a left wheel of his recently-acquired AP6 Valiant when trying to undo them, then spotted the L on the end of a stud.

This morning I pulled the wheel off (again!) and ran the die nut over the thread of each stud - some only needed a spanner for the last couple of turns, two were spanner all the way.

And that was an issue - I had neither socket nor tube spanner large enough (42mm), so had to use an OE spanner at 1/6 turn per go. And the clearance from the hub is barely enough for a socket or tube even if I had one

Replacing the wheel was a lot easier than getting it off - spin all nuts on with a 1/2" adapter in the battery drill, then torque them up. I will check them at the gate on my next trip (probably just to the village on Sunday).

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Originally Posted by p38arover

With 5-stud wheels, remove one nut from each of the other wheels and one from the spare (on a Defender) and you have 4 nuts to get you home. Been there, done that.

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Good thing to remember…I know that somewhere within the car they’ll be 4 or 5 of those bolts and a flange

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

I first had extensive experience with Landcruisers in 1965-6 in the Simpson, my employer having re-equipped with them. Driving in the sandhills all the time, with oversize (9.00x13) tyres run at low pressures, we did a lot of pulling wheels on and off.

By the end of the job, every Landcruiser glovebox had a handful of new wheel studs, and most of us were adept at replacing studs as a routine part of changing wheels.

(And rattle guns were not even dreamed of.)

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Yep wheel studs weigh bugger all…I’ve got 3 odd in the car
Scary, I haven’t experienced that ..it’d be like the bonnet of an s series valiant opening at 90 kph

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Originally Posted by mfc

it’d be like the bonnet of an s series valiant opening at 90 kph

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The only vehicle I've ever had do that was the same FJ45 toyota that lost a wheel.

The early 40 series tojo's only had the spring clip on each side of the bonnet at the front corners and eventually due to body flex the shaft up the middle either wore the clip casing enough to allow the shafte and spring to exit or the shaft snapped which meant the bonnet opened at speed or the next large bump.
A lot of us either replaced the clips at regualr intervals or some fitted racing car style bonnet pins which didn't work very well as the bonnet moved a round a lot.
Eventually Toyota fitted safety catches operated by an underdash cable, probably as a result of regulation rather than just wanting to save customers grief.