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X350 Wheel Nut Issue Mission Impossible
Hi Guys, first let me thank anyone that is brave enough suggest a solution to this post! Any engineers out there who might like a challenge?
When checking my tyre pressures recently I discovered that one of the front n/s wheel nuts had been sheared off with part of the wheel stud still in it, whilst the part of broken stud remaining on the wheel hub has the broken lower half of the wheel nut still on it! Nightmare!
I don't know if It was a malicious act or metal fatigue. Consequently I am in a situation where should I get a puncture I cannot get the wheel off
Should you accept this mission -
In order to make a repair It will be nececessary to :-
1. With the wheel in situ (i.e from the outside) remove the broken remains of the nut and the stud to which it is screwed.
2. Having succeeded separate the wheel from the hub.
3. Remove the remains of the stud which is splined through the back of the hub.
4. All of the points above (1,2,3) must be achieved WITHOUT DAMAGING THE WHEEL RIM
Thought you might like that one)
A possible solution I thought might be to get a jig machined (sadly I no longer have a lathe to use).
The jig (steel tube) centre drilled it's full length to guide a drill down through the centre of the broken stud. The jig also having one end drilled out to the stud diameter to fit over the outer diameter of the stud keeping it on centre whilst drilling.
Using the jig and repeatedly drilling down the length of the stud and increasing the drill size each pass until the drill size equals the stud diameter.
Then in theory the broken nut and stud can be removed since the nut thread will have been drilled out? AND the wheel rim will be undamaged being protected by the remaining taper of the nut
Hope you're all keeping up? there's a quiz next post)
By this point you may have concluded that I'm completely Barmy! If so I would be grateful if you could give me any advice on some alternative solutions to this problem.
The only thing I'm not sure of is if the stud is too hard for to be drilled?
Once again many thanks for your input
Jagslave
When checking my tyre pressures recently I discovered that one of the front n/s wheel nuts had been sheared off with part of the wheel stud still in it, whilst the part of broken stud remaining on the wheel hub has the broken lower half of the wheel nut still on it! Nightmare!
I don't know if It was a malicious act or metal fatigue. Consequently I am in a situation where should I get a puncture I cannot get the wheel off
Should you accept this mission -
In order to make a repair It will be nececessary to :-
1. With the wheel in situ (i.e from the outside) remove the broken remains of the nut and the stud to which it is screwed.
2. Having succeeded separate the wheel from the hub.
3. Remove the remains of the stud which is splined through the back of the hub.
4. All of the points above (1,2,3) must be achieved WITHOUT DAMAGING THE WHEEL RIM
Thought you might like that one
)A possible solution I thought might be to get a jig machined (sadly I no longer have a lathe to use).
The jig (steel tube) centre drilled it's full length to guide a drill down through the centre of the broken stud. The jig also having one end drilled out to the stud diameter to fit over the outer diameter of the stud keeping it on centre whilst drilling.
Using the jig and repeatedly drilling down the length of the stud and increasing the drill size each pass until the drill size equals the stud diameter.
Then in theory the broken nut and stud can be removed since the nut thread will have been drilled out? AND the wheel rim will be undamaged being protected by the remaining taper of the nut
Hope you're all keeping up? there's a quiz next post
)By this point you may have concluded that I'm completely Barmy! If so I would be grateful if you could give me any advice on some alternative solutions to this problem.
The only thing I'm not sure of is if the stud is too hard for to be drilled?
Once again many thanks for your input
Jagslave
