Jimax

Time to replace the front brakes on the Civic and replace the lines all the way around. Honda rotors have a set screw, which were stripped so they needed to be drilled out.

First step of course, jack car up and remove wheel, right? Four lugs. Unlike the Audi, the Honda has studs in the hub. Using the electric impact wrench, one of the lugs wouldn't come off. I break out my trusty 24" breaker bar. LOL. Yeah, half the stud broke off inside the lug nut. But, at least the wheel came off.

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Figuring I'll probably have to tow the car to Honda to get the stud fixed, I decided to get to drilling out the set screw on the rotor. After some time with the drill, the set screw was drilled out and the rotor comes right off. For the record, the ricer kid I bought my car from 55K miles ago put those silly cross-drilled rotors on the car. Those are the ones I'm replacing.

Crap, now what am I going to do about the broken stud? So, I call my brother, he tells to hammer it out. I broke out my second favorite tool, the hammer, and hammered away. Surprisingly, it came out with about 10-12 good, hard hits.

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Here's what's left of that stupid stud

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Tomorrow, I'm off to Honda to buy a new stud and a new lug nut.

My first "incident" with the breaker bar was a year ago when I broke a caliper bolt. My second incident was when I got pissed off at Sears for <a href="https://forums.audiworld.com/midatlantic/msgs/166805.phtml">over-torquing my wheels.</a> And this is my third incident. Might be time for me to find a new tool.

absolutcq20v

Good work, She-Ra. ;P BTDT, luckilly the new ones just pop in.

Lambo-Bully

before I upgraded to the snap on one I have now. I also have a 4' long one for 3/4" drive, just because. ;-)

Jimax

Holy crap man, that's a lot of breaker bars to break.

Jimax

Live and learn I guess

TwinTurboTerror

Threatening Sears employees was a better use of the breaker bar. :-P

Fairfax 4.0T

You can probably pick up the wheel stud from your local auto parts store if the dealer is not convenient.

Jim

Jimax

Would you trust an auto parts store for something like this? I dunno, this type of things is an OEM part to me, but that could be my OCD kicking in too.

genxguy:gettingclose

:P

hyperionguy

Too many things like this happen.

Ever thought about squirting a bit of breaker fluid on there, enjoying a beer for 5 minutes, then using a normal lug wrench? LOL