Wheel Studs!!

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  1. ApeHangerGod

    ApeHangerGod Bobtail Member

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    I’ve got a 2000 FLD120 that presume still has the factory wheel studs. This normally wouldn’t be an issue, but somewhere before I got the truck someone swapped out the outside steel wheels for aluminum. Since aluminum wheels are thicker, this leaves me with very little thread on the studs for my lug nuts. I’m wanting to go 100% aluminum on the rear, but can’t unless I change out my wheel studs too.

    does anyone know what length of wheel studs I need? I went by Freightliner and the parts “expert” said that all he can sell me is what came factory unless I carried a stud into him and then he can measure and match things up. I’d prefer to have everything at the house and ready to go when I tear into the truck since nothing is open after 12 noon on saturdays.
     
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  3. Big Road Skateboard

    Big Road Skateboard Road Train Member

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    Get with a Fleetpride or Truck Pro. An inch longer should accommodate your needs
     
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  4. Goodysnap

    Goodysnap Road Train Member

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    Any truck shop should be able to pull a stud out and match up the stud to a longer one. A good tire shop should be able to handle this as well, but most will probably turn you away. Its alot of work changing all those studs on the truck.
     
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  5. ApeHangerGod

    ApeHangerGod Bobtail Member

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    I guess you missed the part where I said that I want everything here at house before I tear into it because all parts resources close at noon on Saturday’s.

    I’m not paying a shop $120 an hour to do a job that I can do on a Saturday afternoon. These truck was manufactured in 1999. I’m sure someone along the way has changed a wheel stud along the way and know what length I need to order.
     
  6. spsauerland

    spsauerland Road Train Member

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    If "part guy" can get you original P/N, all he has to do is look at specs of original stud and then get a longer one. Stud specs are published in all parts catalogs I have.
     
  7. Goodysnap

    Goodysnap Road Train Member

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    Yup, sure did. Good luck!!

    I'd still pull one and match it if I were you......
     
  8. Mr Bob

    Mr Bob Light Load Member

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    i would pull a stud and match it. its the only way to be sure. yes it may seem like a double job but its the only way i will do it. i just did one recently. came out perfect. i would recommend looking at all your brake parts from behind if there are no backing plates on there. you may have missing or damaged parts that you could service at the same time you do the studs.
     
  9. lester

    lester Midwest's #1 Feed Hauler

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    Tape measure, ruler, yard stick?
     
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  10. spsauerland

    spsauerland Road Train Member

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    Done correctly, studs take time to do. All service manual for hubs state not to hammer studs in and out with hub on axle due to possible bearing damage. We have a tiger tool stud remover/installer press at work that makes short work of them, but prior to that I pulled hub and pressed new ones in. Aftermarket Con-Met loaded pre-set hubs are priced pretty well these days, just saying.
     
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  11. Rideandrepair

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    That’s the best thing to do. Studs aren’t cheap, and Labor can be tough. Friend of mine changed his, fairly easy on a Trailer. Beat them out, and air gun pulled them in. He got Lucky. Much easier and not much more. New hubs, bearings seals. Nice.
     
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