[DeTomaso] Pantera near disaster

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

Boyd,

Since you used an impact wrench yourself all bets are off IMO. You might as
well have damaged the studs when you first assembled the car. I personally
feel that aluminum parts (wheels, hubs, nuts or whatever) and impact
wrenches should not be combined unless you're disassembling them.

Tomas

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com
[mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]On Behalf Of boyd casey
Sent: den 22 augusti 2010 06:18
To: JDeRyke at aol.com
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Pantera near disaster


The two studs tha actually broke are gone. the hub design allowed the back
half of the studs to fall away when they deformed the holes in the hub. I
did use an impact wrench on them when I switched the wheels when I finished
bleeding the breaks and noticed I had put the first wheel on the wrong side.
I may have damaged the studs. The three remaining studs were not broken but
they had deformed the holes in the huband were only held on by the last few
threads.The last lug nuts just flopped off when I got the car off the tow
truck
. I may have the back off one of the broken studs. I have already taken
everything apart I will have to look in the box of parts.

Boyd
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:48 PM, <JDeRyke at aol.com> wrote:

> Boyd, check the remains of the wheel studs. If someone used an air-gun set
> on 'Gorilla' and overtorqued the lug nuts, the studs stretch, then crack.
> If this happened, the studs may have visibly elongated around the break
> point. You may have to look closely as our wheel studs are hardened and
> don't bend nor stretch much before cracking. Glad you're physically OK- J
> DeRyke
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