mth
Been here awhile...
Just a heads up. Broke a stud on 15 5.0 yesterday. After researching found a post in the Coupe forum and can confirm that you can remove and replace stud easily. Here is the post:
I canconfirm there is enough room in the rear to remove and insert new studs without removing the wheel hub. I've done it a couple times (bc I'm a fool). Easiest way is to just raise the car (make sure you can let the parking brake off and set to neutral later) and leave the brake on for now, remove the two bolts that hold the rotor on (theyre either 14mm or 17mm and torqued to ~40lbs), remove the brake caliper and support it with like a bucket so the brake line inst just holding it in the air, remove the two Phillips screws holding the rotor face on but be CAREFUL because they strip easy as'L. I used a harbor freight handheld impact screwdriver that cost like $8 bc mine were seized on there.
Now let the parking break off bc so you can remove the rotor face plate. If it doesnt come off just give it a couple wacks with a rubber mallet (or hammer+woodblock) around the circumfrence of it and it should pop off a bit easier.
Now.. home stretch... put the parking brake back on and hit the front and back of the stud that betrayed you with the lubricant you prefer (I like the black WD-40 with the bending metal tube bc aesthetics, or WetPlatinum) let it sit a min, knock out the existing stud with a hammer + wooden block, undo the parking brake, shimmy the stud out at a mild angle in the open spaces on the left and ride side of the rotor. Cant find a pic for example but you'll see what I'm saying.
Now get your new stud and slide its tip inside that open area on the left (theres more room if I remember correctly) with the studs tip pointed downward and towards you (outward, so towards the hole in hub it sets in). Make sure the hole its going into is bellow the tip of the new stud you have so that when you rotate the wheel clockwise the hole will eventually catch the tip and you can slide the rest of the stud into place. From there.... redo parking brake and pick your preferred method of setting studs. I'm a fool (as previously mentioned) so I just grabbed an oversized nut (or similar cylinder shaped object) or two and placed it onto the stud (like over the stud without screwing it, so big ole' nuts) and a washer so that when I put on my stud that fits, It pulled the stud into the hub. More lube here is also appreciated. Just be careful when you do it that the big nuts(or whatever) and washer on the stud aren't resting on the threads bc that'll end up messing them up. Ask me how I know.
I canconfirm there is enough room in the rear to remove and insert new studs without removing the wheel hub. I've done it a couple times (bc I'm a fool). Easiest way is to just raise the car (make sure you can let the parking brake off and set to neutral later) and leave the brake on for now, remove the two bolts that hold the rotor on (theyre either 14mm or 17mm and torqued to ~40lbs), remove the brake caliper and support it with like a bucket so the brake line inst just holding it in the air, remove the two Phillips screws holding the rotor face on but be CAREFUL because they strip easy as'L. I used a harbor freight handheld impact screwdriver that cost like $8 bc mine were seized on there.
Now let the parking break off bc so you can remove the rotor face plate. If it doesnt come off just give it a couple wacks with a rubber mallet (or hammer+woodblock) around the circumfrence of it and it should pop off a bit easier.
Now.. home stretch... put the parking brake back on and hit the front and back of the stud that betrayed you with the lubricant you prefer (I like the black WD-40 with the bending metal tube bc aesthetics, or WetPlatinum) let it sit a min, knock out the existing stud with a hammer + wooden block, undo the parking brake, shimmy the stud out at a mild angle in the open spaces on the left and ride side of the rotor. Cant find a pic for example but you'll see what I'm saying.
Now get your new stud and slide its tip inside that open area on the left (theres more room if I remember correctly) with the studs tip pointed downward and towards you (outward, so towards the hole in hub it sets in). Make sure the hole its going into is bellow the tip of the new stud you have so that when you rotate the wheel clockwise the hole will eventually catch the tip and you can slide the rest of the stud into place. From there.... redo parking brake and pick your preferred method of setting studs. I'm a fool (as previously mentioned) so I just grabbed an oversized nut (or similar cylinder shaped object) or two and placed it onto the stud (like over the stud without screwing it, so big ole' nuts) and a washer so that when I put on my stud that fits, It pulled the stud into the hub. More lube here is also appreciated. Just be careful when you do it that the big nuts(or whatever) and washer on the stud aren't resting on the threads bc that'll end up messing them up. Ask me how I know.
