90QMilwaukee

While I was tightening down the lug nuts on my 90Q I over torqued one of them, causing it to strip. Can I just replace the stud or do I have to replace the whole hub? Thanks again for all the insight.

Dustin

quattromano

Holy Cow were you jumping on a breaker bar to torque the lug nut on?! It doesn't take much to tighten a lug nut on an Audi. It's cheaper to get a complete hub from a bone yard then too replace one lug.

90/90Qs

yeah! I torque mine to 92 foot pounds, but they don't even need that much. -84 ftlb or so is sufficient.

90QMilwaukee

Well, whats done is done. Its my first Audi so I started working on it with a bit of arrogance. I snugged the other ones up just fine, but though, eh, one more should do it. Needless to say I now know to read ahead, and not to drink to many beers while working on it ever again.

90/90Qs

So did the bolt or the hub strip? If you were able to get the bolt out, and it's the bolt that stripped then try a new one. If you can't get the bolt out, then you need a hub. Drilling that thing out may be damn near impossible.
To be safe, I'd recommend replacing the hub, especially since it's 4 bolts and not 5; but you'll end up needing to replace the wheel bearing and recommend replacing the (2) steering knuckle stretch bolts as well.

90QMilwaukee

No, just the stud striped. I was able to find some new ones at a VW shop here in Phoenix. Heated the hub up just a bit with a torch and they came right out. My tranny seems to be leaking a bit of fluid, do you see this being a problem for my trip back? I have never known a manual shifting car to have transmission fluid. Any help you may have would be great, seeing as that we have the same year/model of car, except yours looks much better.