Replacement Wheel Studs

After putting the disks on I remembered that there is a possibility I will need to change the wheel studs, after measuring it turns out there isn't enough length.   I've ordered a set of 16 new studs, 47mm, but annoyingly it means I need to take everything off as I am not prepared to start smacking them with a hammer whilst on the car; I don't think the bearings will like that.

I've removed 12 studs already, I tried with a bearing puller tool from ebay but that was all but useless - I had to remove the marked red bit so I could get the correct angle:

After failing miserably I bit the bullet.  The rears were easy to get off as I hadn't yet tightened the hub nut (will do that last thing), the hubs came straight off.  The front is more difficult, I ended up removing the whole dummy strut, I need to get a bearing puller because the top ball joint is still connected.   After a couple of days of penetration fluid the rear studs came out quite easily, swift blow with the hammer.

The front was slightly harder so a change of tactic needed:

22mm socket behind the hub, tightened the vice and each one popped out with relative ease.  Apart from one, which took me three hours to remove.  I won in the end:

 

 After cutting the stud out and griding as close as I could to the hub, it finally gave up!  One more to do tomorrow and then I can wind the new ones in.  I suspect they too are going to be difficult, I will have to be careful as I really don't want to damage the threads.  I'll do some research but planning on both freezing the studs and heating up the hub with a blow torch before winding them in with nut + washers.  We shall see, Ill check rhocar forum.

Front Callipers - Complete

Well, I've been waiting to post this for a while.  Bit of a mammoth task to get these all painted up, lots of patience to make sure I didn't put the paint on too thin but got there in the end.  I went for Hammorite smooth yellow - that meant lots of coats, yellow isn't the best at covering.

At least I managed to do all this in the warmth inside as its been too damn cold outside for the paint, you can see the progress below.  After stripping my donor parts down and giving them a good clean:

And on the car, looking nice:

The bad news is I have now dismantled my rear callipers to prep for painting, which I spent ages fitting.  Oh well, it will look good when finished. :)