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05-20-2003, 11:30 AM
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Broken Studs
I was washing my 85 K5 and noticed while I was doing the wheels that two of the studs were snapped off. It's 6 lug and the two broken ones were directly across from each other. I have never seen this before and can not figure out what caused it. Has anyone had this happen or know why it would happen? I am stumped.
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05-20-2003, 03:38 PM
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ROCKET POWER!
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Reason: Impact wrench and serious overtorque.
[edit] Or did you mean they were fine the last time you looked but had just snapped? Most of the time it's because tire dealers do it the quickest way.
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05-21-2003, 08:56 AM
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They were fine the last time I looked. I put the rims on myself with a torgue wrench to the specified poundage. That is why I can't understand what happened.
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05-22-2003, 05:10 AM
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Maybe they were damaged by previous over-torquing.
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05-22-2003, 10:35 AM
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That's very possible. It just struck me odd that two of them would break off. I did have a problem with my drive shaft that was created from a lift that I installed. It caused a shimmy in the shaft so much that it leaked. I thought that may have thrown everything off in the rear end. I don't know.
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