Ok guys... was at the last mile of my knuckle rebuild tonight when two of the fancy new hardened ARP studs gave out and stripped while I was tightening them to the 26 ft lbs spec. Fortunately I was able to extract them all without damage to the hub by using the ends. Obviously very disappointed in these, they were not cheap, and now have to replace them with OEM on all four corners.
2 questions:
1. Has anyone experienced anything like this with the ARP kit? Or is this user error?
2. When installing the OEM studs, does the short end go inside the hub? When I removed the old OEM studs from the hubs, the front studs were installed long ends in the hub, but the rears were the other way around - short end was inside the hub. I found this strange and assumed it was the POs install error, but can’t find any documentation or threads on this to confirm the right way to install.
Thanks in advance for the input.
2 questions:
1. Has anyone experienced anything like this with the ARP kit? Or is this user error?
2. When installing the OEM studs, does the short end go inside the hub? When I removed the old OEM studs from the hubs, the front studs were installed long ends in the hub, but the rears were the other way around - short end was inside the hub. I found this strange and assumed it was the POs install error, but can’t find any documentation or threads on this to confirm the right way to install.
Thanks in advance for the input.