Thread: wheel nuts

What do you mean by "busted", take a pic, worth a thousand words, Regards Frank.

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That's a broken stud, not a broken wheel nut.

As Ron said, either caused by excessive overtightening, or not tight enough, buy a new stud, knock out the old one and knock in the new, regards Frank.

Originally Posted by matthewk

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That sir is a broken wheel stud not the nut. I have yet to experience such a failure, but as others have said damage to the stud via lack of enough tightening could have weakened the stud. I'd expect damage to the threads before the stud sheared from over tightening, therefore more likely to have been an under tightened wheel nut resulting in some repetitive change in load resulting in a fatigue fracture or movement in the wheel which rested against and marked the stud and started a fracture.

I use a torque wrench with the listed torque setting - Not too slack and not too tight. Good not having to bend the wrench with my ample weight!

Originally Posted by slug_burner

That sir is a broken wheel stud not the nut. I have yet to experience such a failure, but as others have said damage to the stud via lack of enough tightening could have weakened the stud. I'd expect damage to the threads before the stud sheared from over tightening, therefore more likely to have been an under tightened wheel nut resulting in some repetitive change in load resulting in a fatigue fracture or movement in the wheel which rested against and marked the stud and started a fracture.

last time i had the wheel off to replace the last busted stud i used a pole as leverage to undo the nuts i had actually hand tighten them with just the standard brace no pipes were involved in tightening them or jumping on it

im going to go with movement in the wheel as it shudders from extreme poor wheel aline-ment and thinking about it could be panhard bushes think i might be doing some replacing of bushes

cheers guys


PS: nuts studs they both hold the wheel on

PS: nuts studs they both hold the wheel on

A good accurate description aids in solving a question asked from afar, have never seen a "busted nut" so very hard to diagnose what happened, on the other hand a Busted Stud, easy peasy, Regards Frank.