EDIT: DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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RE: DONT DO IT (My Bad Luck)
ORIGINAL: 03zx2
my wheel studs got cross threaded too last week. one of the lug nuts wouldn't come off because the stud was moving, took 4 hours with a drill to drill it out. then i got a new hub assembly and the studs were already in there. took 20 mins or less after the intial 4hours to get the one nut off.
my wheel studs got cross threaded too last week. one of the lug nuts wouldn't come off because the stud was moving, took 4 hours with a drill to drill it out. then i got a new hub assembly and the studs were already in there. took 20 mins or less after the intial 4hours to get the one nut off.
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You shouldn't tell people not to do it, you should be telling them not to do it half a$$, when working on any car you need to take your time and do it the RIGHT way first so you dont mess up and cause more work and waste more money fixing all the mistakes the second time....
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RE: DONT DO IT (My Bad Luck)
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You shouldn't tell people not to do it, you should be telling them not to do it half a$$, when working on any car you need to take your time and do it the RIGHT way first so you dont mess up and cause more work and waste more money fixing all the mistakes the second time....
You shouldn't tell people not to do it, you should be telling them not to do it half a$$, when working on any car you need to take your time and do it the RIGHT way first so you dont mess up and cause more work and waste more money fixing all the mistakes the second time....
The wheel stud getting cross-threaded was just a freak thing that happened. The wheel shop probably did it with their air gun and didnt tell me.
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Well you used the spray which the paint is going to start coming off in less than a month and the wheel stud was a freak thing unless you cross threaded it..... I was just saying you shouldnt tell people to NOT DO IT! just because you messed up.... I did mine the right way and I dont know anyone else who had a problem painting their calipers because its one of the easiest things to do on any car.....
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RE: DONT DO IT (My Bad Luck)
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Well you used the spray which the paint is going to start coming off in less than a month and the wheel stud was a freak thing unless you cross threaded it..... I was just saying you shouldnt tell people to NOT DO IT! just because you messed up.... I did mine the right way and I dont know anyone else who had a problem painting their calipers because its one of the easiest things to do on any car.....
Well you used the spray which the paint is going to start coming off in less than a month and the wheel stud was a freak thing unless you cross threaded it..... I was just saying you shouldnt tell people to NOT DO IT! just because you messed up.... I did mine the right way and I dont know anyone else who had a problem painting their calipers because its one of the easiest things to do on any car.....
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RE: EDIT: DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I finally painted my calipers the other day, and I'm here to say, dont do it. It literally took my friend and I 2 whole days to do it. But then again, we broke a wheel stud while we were taking a wheel off. The d*mn thing got cross-threaded and we finally just snapped it off. After we got the wheels off, it took about an hour to remove all the brake components. Then another hour to clean and prep them for paint. Then finally we painted them. We let them dry over night and the next morning we put them back together and put the wheels back on.
But, there was about 4 hours of nonstop work trying to replace the wheels studs before we could put the brakes back together. We decided to replace all 20 wheel studs in fear of another one breaking in the future. We spent almost an hour trying to get ONE on. My friend and I decided after that, that we would put the old ones back on and just forget about replacing them. We finally got them all back on. The wheels went on ok, but it was rough.
I guess painting the calipers might have been worth it if the one stud hadn't broken. But because of that, it created an extra 4-5 hours of work. So what I thought was going to be an easy 1 day job, turned into an extremely frustrating 2 days of hard work. I put some pics on the bottom of the calipers and broken wheel stud. I couldnt get a good view of the whole car because its overcast right now.
I finally painted my calipers the other day, and I'm here to say, dont do it. It literally took my friend and I 2 whole days to do it. But then again, we broke a wheel stud while we were taking a wheel off. The d*mn thing got cross-threaded and we finally just snapped it off. After we got the wheels off, it took about an hour to remove all the brake components. Then another hour to clean and prep them for paint. Then finally we painted them. We let them dry over night and the next morning we put them back together and put the wheels back on.
But, there was about 4 hours of nonstop work trying to replace the wheels studs before we could put the brakes back together. We decided to replace all 20 wheel studs in fear of another one breaking in the future. We spent almost an hour trying to get ONE on. My friend and I decided after that, that we would put the old ones back on and just forget about replacing them. We finally got them all back on. The wheels went on ok, but it was rough.
I guess painting the calipers might have been worth it if the one stud hadn't broken. But because of that, it created an extra 4-5 hours of work. So what I thought was going to be an easy 1 day job, turned into an extremely frustrating 2 days of hard work. I put some pics on the bottom of the calipers and broken wheel stud. I couldnt get a good view of the whole car because its overcast right now.
i painted mine in about 2 hours, alone in my garage. i totally disagree with you, its easy and fun.
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