If you’re like everyone else, you’ve tightened the lug nuts on your car without using a torque wrench. You’re an “all the muscle you can put into it” kind of guy, and now you’re staring at a broken ...

Despite not offering really any kind of performance improvement, some modifications are still worth the time and money. One of these is installing wheel studs on cars that didn’t come with them from ...

I have a Toyota pickup that regularly breaks locking hub studs. All six go at the same time, including the dowel pins. I have ARP super metal studs in there now, and I have broken them three times.

Carmakers constantly tweak designs to cut costs or improve on how a component works. Why have some of them started using lug ...

I sometimes find myself in the middle of oddball arguments. The most recent one was about wheel fasteners, specifically whether wheel bolts were better than wheel studs for affixing the wheel to the ...

Tire Service Equipment Manufacturing Co. says its 1-PPK Pak Press, a portable wheel stud remover and installer, lets users remove and install studs without removing the hub. It reduces work time and ...

Installing different wheels or wheel spacers will sometimes reduce the number of threads inside the lug nuts, which is referred to as the lug nuts’ thread engagement. When we installed a three-piece ...

Attaching wheels to a truck hub is serious business. Yet it's not uncommon to see some big bruiser of a mechanic, one foot against the bottom of the tire, whaling away with a 1-inch-drive impact gun ...

Most street cars come from the factory with either wheel studs or wheel bolts. (There are also center-lock wheels, but those are usually reserved for top-tier race cars and high-end performance street ...