Corolla Broken Lug Nut Stud

Well, I managed to break a lug off my wife's 2013 Corolla while switching from winter to all season tires. Anyone ever tried to replace one of these themselves? If so, how difficult was it?

 

It's not hard to do, press old one out replace with new 1. easy as pie!

 

Get a punch and pound it straight through as your looking at the broken part, put the new stud in from the back add some washers and the lug nut and tighten it up until the stud is flush on the backside. Should take about 10mins total.

 

Yeah, pretty strait forward. Once you get the old one out you can use lug nuts to pull new one in.

 

Thanks, guys. I think I'll give it a shot one evening this week rather than paying someone $100 to do it.

 

Front or rear? You’re either removing the caliper and rotor or the drum, then knock the broken stud out and pull the new one in with flat washers and a nut. If you have alloy wheels with the washer-style wheel nuts, I highly recommend buying a plain M12x1.5 wheel nut like this to install the stud.

Thread it on flat side first against some 1/2” flat washers, a bit of lube on the threads, and crank it in. Then clean the lube off the stud with brake clean or something.

 

Rear so yeah, brake drum will have to come off. We have alloy summer wheels and steel winter wheels so I'll just use one of the winter lug nuts and thread it on backwards with some big washers.

 

Forgot to close the loop here. My brother in law and I chickened out trying to get the drum off without breaking anything so I ended up taking it to Kal Tire (which I won't ever do again but that's a separate issue).

Thanks for all you advice.

 

I replaced all 12 of my rear studs on my truck because the high dolla alignment place I used one time put about 7 ugga duggas too much on the studs.

It wasn't a bad job, and I would have been done with all of them in a few hours, but I was wire wheeling, and painting my rusty drums (one of which I had to replace due to a stud hole to stud hole crack) waiting on paint was the hardest part of the job for me. Waiting... *Jeopardy theme plays*

I did the same thing as everyone else. Used a lug nut, but I didn't have washers. I used a smaller flat wrench as a washer. Once I was close to flush I busted out the torque wrench, and torqued each stud to lug nut torque which ensured I was 100% seated. Probably over kill, but hey while I'm I here.....

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