[MV] Replacing M35 wheel studs

mblair1@home.net
Mon, 01 Nov 1999 00:58:51 -0800

My new M109A3 has right-handed wheel studs on the left middle hub.
That's annoying, but I figured I could live with it for a couple
years. Well, while rotating the tires today, I found that one of the
studs was stripped or cross-threaded. I figure that pulling the hub,
lugging it over to a friend's hangar to use his hydraulic press, and
then lugging it back and reinstalling it will be a lot more trouble
than pressing 5 more studs in and out, so I might as well convert the
whole hub back to left-handed studs while I'm at it.

My 3000+ page collection of M35 manuals hasn't managed to accumulate
anything as useful as instructions on removing and reinstalling wheel
hubs yet. Can anybody tell me how to get the wheel hubs off and
replace the studs? Are there any seals, single-use locking thingies,
etc. that I will want to buy before I pull it apart? I'm assuming that
once I actually get the hub out, I just press out the old studs and
press in the new ones with a hydraulic press. Is that right?

Some of the studs on some of the hubs can wiggle a bit (though
thankfully they don't turn!). Is that normal, or should they be in
there really tight?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

By the way, I added many more pictures to my M109A3 page, including a
picture of the truck up on jack stands with all of its wheels removed
("It's the Flying Deuce!"). If you're interested, go to the URL in my
signature below, and follow the obvious links.

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