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Subject:Re: GoWesty longer rear wheel studs
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Sun, 15 Feb 2015 19:30:33 -0800

I'd advise not hammering the studs out nor pulling them in. Use a press. 

You have to take off the hub, and that means removing the big castellated nut.

Alistair

> On Feb 15, 2015, at 7:22 PM, Dug Smith <dug@DUGBERT.COM> wrote:
> 
> So I'm thinking about installing the GoWesty studs so I can put some
> spacers on the rear wheels (now I've got the Terrawagen flares on :o)).
> Has anybody done this - what's involved?  I'm hoping it's just a
> matter of taking the drums off and hammering the old ones out and
> pulling the new ones in, but with my luck recently, the engine'll have
> to come out or something...
> 
> toodle pip,
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