Stud broken on front hub? Lug spinning.

[redciv1]

BTW Speedminded, I just went through the whole impact gun situation with my wife's car. Seems like the car went in for transmission work and they obviously used a impact gun. Went to change the brakes and could not get 3 of the lugs off. Have a Chrysler Concorde so they have those "caps" on the lug nuts. Those broke off. A simple 1 hr brake job took 4 days to complete. People don't realize that it doesn't take a lot of muscle to tighten the lugs.

[speedminded]

Hey man, from experience, never take your car to sams club to get tires put on, trust me i know from expirience. They stripped out 6 of my studs, one time, then three, the next time i got it aligned and balenced, i highly recomend sears.

BTW Speedminded, I just went through the whole impact gun situation with my wife's car. Seems like the car went in for transmission work and they obviously used a impact gun. Went to change the brakes and could not get 3 of the lugs off. Have a Chrysler Concorde so they have those "caps" on the lug nuts. Those broke off. A simple 1 hr brake job took 4 days to complete. People don't realize that it doesn't take a lot of muscle to tighten the lugs.

The best part is they aren't liable for broken studs, isn't it great?! They crank them down with the impact and for the ones that do use a torque wrench I see them bouncing on it like it's an inflatable blow up doll. They have no concept of what they are doing...com'n, it's not that hard to properly use a tool!

I went to Harbor Freight and picked up a 36" breaker bar for like $20-25 then a 1" to 1/2" converter for the impact sockets, not to mention the handle from my steel jack will slide over the end of it...that's what I use to break axle nuts loose and undo retarded peoples mistakes

[redciv1]

lol that's funny Speed. When I replaced my Civic motor I did not have a "breaker bar" so my brother-in-law just happen two have to still pipes, one to fit a smaller 3/8" rachet and a bigger one for a 1/4" rachet. So we use the bigger and longer bar for the axle nuts and it was soooooooo simple. Not to mention that when the nuts are torqued right, it doesn't take that much to break them with a breaker bar. Breaker bars work great on suspension parts I bought the CB7 with the sole intentions of swapping an H22 so I was basically looking for a shell. It's aggravating but for now I am working around the stuck lug nut.

[StraightSix]

FWIW, I've never told anyone that the impact uns we used were "calibrated" for 85ft-lbs. of torque. The procedure we adopted involved using a "torque stick" to run lugs down and then checked them with a torque wrench. All of our guys knew how to use the tool. Really, that's not neither here nor there.

I agree tire shops that don't know how to properly torque lugs are really aggravating. It really baffles me how something so easy to do right gets done so wrong all the time.