Tip on how to get MAD really easy

[Neosaber]

...let a mate put one of your wheels back on and not notice that e is doing the wheel up with the wrong LOCK NUT!!!!!! now it has f*ked two of the threads on a couple of the bolts....is this an easy problem to fix? also would a place like bob jane fix it easily, i live closeby to one.

cheers.

Dave.

[666DAN]

I don't think bobjane will fix your mate..he's too far gone But they may help with the thread, if not just get a couple of new studs.

[Neosaber]

A couple of new studs.....is that costly? iam going to kill my friend

[nedb]

They're uner $5 each. You just need to find someone to change them, that'll cost more.

[krawler]

Has it damaged the thread on the stud? Or actually borked the stud?

If its just the thread, you can take the wheel back off and run a thread fix0r over the stud, either the thread repair kits or proper thread die/nut will do it for you.

[Neosaber]

It has wrecked the thread i'd say, the locknuts wont do up properly at all and there were shaving of metal in there.....arrrgg

[krawler]

Take the wheel off and take a sample locknut with you to something like Trade Tools, Glenfords, whatever.

Hopefully they can sell you a single thread repairer to suit that thread type.

Err, and make sure the same wheel nut / lock nut isnt one of the fscked ones Better yet is if you can find a bolt with the same thread as the wheel stud, and take that with you. But they SHOULD be able to line up a thread repair with only the female part to match to.

[krawler]

Whups, the purpose of taking the wheel off in the first place is so you can run the thread repairer over the studs once you've bought it

[GTS_DUY]

just go to repco or something like that and ask for a new bolt, tell em what car and they should be able to supply them. it's not a hard task. you need to take off the wheel, caliper then rotor, bang the shit out of the bolt so it comes out, and put the new one in. before putting everything else back on, put the nut onto the bolt and tighten it against the hub - this pulls the bolt all the way thru, preventing it becoming loose later on.

[race_snooze]

simple guys go straight to bobs and say hey broken pls fix will be cheap end of the story

[Neosaber]

Yeh it was simple, went to a mechanic, they put 3 new bolts in (coz 3 were shithouse) then wacked new locknuts on and whamooo its awesome again!

[race_snooze]

cheaper then you thought to hey.