The Key Question without the dialogue is highlighted at the bottom:
Yesterday afternoon on a tangent TB Engines thread, I was armpit deep in the quicksand of my $85,000.00 GM 4.2L Engine Head R&R when my son called as said, "Dad I've got a FLAT on the 03' Silverado and I am late for work..." So I played TAXI and today got an early start by changing his tire... but I noticed that one of the wheel nuts was very hard to unwind and it stayed that tight, almost all the way out to the start of the threads... I thought, "Hmmmm... what kind of card-carrying Idiot winds up cross-threading a wheel nut that an infant could put on and NOT FUBAR it by cross-threading the nut all the way down?" Anyhow, I wanted to get the tire change done and unfortunately... when I was putting the spare tire on the hub, I did NOT put the same FUBARed Nut back on that FUBARed Stud that was originally in place as a doomed pair. And of course now, in perfectly clear hindsight, I realize THAT would turn out to be a very bad idea.
So I buttoned it all up up and my son wanted to go to the local Goodyear place in spite of my suggestion to the contrary. The Yo-Yo at Goodyear laid the obviously flat truck tire on the deck, and then struck what must be his interpretation of a thoughtful pose and said absolutely nothing for about three minutes. I finally stopped this nonsense when he said, "Corporate will not allow me to patch your tire because of...blah...blah...blah.." I said, "Let's go son...were done..." and headed over to my favorite spot for tires in Pinellas County... "AK" Tires... No Bells... No whistles... No "Bravo Sierra"... Just tires...Quick and Dirty...and You get the same HQ or LQ tires if you prefer for a fraction of what the "Big Tire Boys" charge.
So when we arrive, I ask the young kid working there to patch the inside of the flat tire...and to keep the offending steel Dry Wall screw as a memento. Then I suggested that we should Talk Turkey about getting new rubber all around. He jacks up the truck and using his beat up old air powered Walmart Subway Sandwich sized air tool and spins off a handful of the nuts... until the very last one... which suddenly sounded like a jet plane taking off. I watched him continue until he realized that the Nut & Stud were spinning endlessly in the wheel. He tried everything including breaking and ruining his cheap shop Angle Grinder and finally he was completely defeated. I told him its okay... whoever owned the truck B4 did something stupid that was adding to my "Mission Creep" woes. I had him re-install the other well behaved nuts and air up the spare and went in to the office to order all new tires. In the meantime, I stopped by Harbor Freight on the way home and loaded up with a better quality 7" Angle Grinder & a stack of discs to finish what the kid started back at the house later on. My problem is that he and the other dude had tried desperately to get that nut off by accident and wound up wallowing out stud hole and all the mating surfaces.
Now that I have the new grinder, I can finish the job of grinding off the nut remnants and remove from the golli-wogged stud and then just push it out the back of the wheel hub without too much more trouble. But I am a little uncertain as to whether the hub is damaged enough to warrant a complete replacement and if so... what does that repair entail and, if it comes down to cases, what do I need to do the entire repair? So... I am all ears on this one...
Yesterday afternoon on a tangent TB Engines thread, I was armpit deep in the quicksand of my $85,000.00 GM 4.2L Engine Head R&R when my son called as said, "Dad I've got a FLAT on the 03' Silverado and I am late for work..." So I played TAXI and today got an early start by changing his tire... but I noticed that one of the wheel nuts was very hard to unwind and it stayed that tight, almost all the way out to the start of the threads... I thought, "Hmmmm... what kind of card-carrying Idiot winds up cross-threading a wheel nut that an infant could put on and NOT FUBAR it by cross-threading the nut all the way down?" Anyhow, I wanted to get the tire change done and unfortunately... when I was putting the spare tire on the hub, I did NOT put the same FUBARed Nut back on that FUBARed Stud that was originally in place as a doomed pair. And of course now, in perfectly clear hindsight, I realize THAT would turn out to be a very bad idea.
So I buttoned it all up up and my son wanted to go to the local Goodyear place in spite of my suggestion to the contrary. The Yo-Yo at Goodyear laid the obviously flat truck tire on the deck, and then struck what must be his interpretation of a thoughtful pose and said absolutely nothing for about three minutes. I finally stopped this nonsense when he said, "Corporate will not allow me to patch your tire because of...blah...blah...blah.." I said, "Let's go son...were done..." and headed over to my favorite spot for tires in Pinellas County... "AK" Tires... No Bells... No whistles... No "Bravo Sierra"... Just tires...Quick and Dirty...and You get the same HQ or LQ tires if you prefer for a fraction of what the "Big Tire Boys" charge.
So when we arrive, I ask the young kid working there to patch the inside of the flat tire...and to keep the offending steel Dry Wall screw as a memento. Then I suggested that we should Talk Turkey about getting new rubber all around. He jacks up the truck and using his beat up old air powered Walmart Subway Sandwich sized air tool and spins off a handful of the nuts... until the very last one... which suddenly sounded like a jet plane taking off. I watched him continue until he realized that the Nut & Stud were spinning endlessly in the wheel. He tried everything including breaking and ruining his cheap shop Angle Grinder and finally he was completely defeated. I told him its okay... whoever owned the truck B4 did something stupid that was adding to my "Mission Creep" woes. I had him re-install the other well behaved nuts and air up the spare and went in to the office to order all new tires. In the meantime, I stopped by Harbor Freight on the way home and loaded up with a better quality 7" Angle Grinder & a stack of discs to finish what the kid started back at the house later on. My problem is that he and the other dude had tried desperately to get that nut off by accident and wound up wallowing out stud hole and all the mating surfaces.
Now that I have the new grinder, I can finish the job of grinding off the nut remnants and remove from the golli-wogged stud and then just push it out the back of the wheel hub without too much more trouble. But I am a little uncertain as to whether the hub is damaged enough to warrant a complete replacement and if so... what does that repair entail and, if it comes down to cases, what do I need to do the entire repair? So... I am all ears on this one...