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ColoradoXJ13
06-17-2006, 10:10 AM
I helped a buddy put new rotors and pads on the back of his outback last night, and in the process of hammering the rotors off the car (they were rusted on) i hammered two of the wheel studs and messed up the threads. He tried to put the lugs back on and kind of messed up about 5-6 of the threads....is there any way to tap the threads, or should we start looking into replacing the studs?
Thanks

only1
06-17-2006, 11:21 AM
your better off replacing the studs... i've had the same problem with my high school car and tryed taping the threads and i lost 3 lugs and to find out they seem to weakin the threads quite a bit...