LDMF

Alright, this was on my wife's Volvo S80, not my Cab. So I am putting on snow tires as I do on all my families vehicles. On the third wheel, driver's side front I can not get the lug stud to go fit through the wheel and into the threaded hole.

Put the wheel on, doesn't work, pull the wheel off. Sand the hub and grease it put the wheel back on. One lug nut just will not line up. Take the wheel off and try a lug stud backwards and it fits into all the shafts on the wheel. I try it forward in all the holes, it fits. What the frick is going on!!!

Put the wheel back on and rubber mallet it into place and 4 lug studs make it and one doesn't. I tighten the the other 4 and try the 5th, no go. Loosen all 4 and try sliding the wheel clockwise, not go, counter clockwise no go. Screw it I go to the right front and change that tire.

Go back tot the right and it comes to me, I have one lug stud that is ever so slight larger around on the outside of the seat. pull out the caliper, measure and sure as **** that is it. 4 minutes later on the bench grinder and walaa. Finished with her car. And now you know that lug is going to rust, grumble grumble.

Now the other thing I noticed while was doing this job was that my impact sockets would need to be hand turned to slip on the stud. Never noticed before, but I looked at the sockets as I was wiping them down to be put away and son of a bitch, it is a cheap set and they were not perfectly centered. Now I have something I want for Christmas. Somedays.....

5CHN3LL

Trying to wrap my head around this concept and failing.