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Had no idea about the swaged studs, but a bigger hammer took care of it!



You can lead a horse to water but.............


with that being said, i have had to replace many hubs over the years that had been bent by not removing the swedge on the studs. mopar was famous for using them. gm & ford, not so much. this was mainly because there was no support under the stud being removed. however, IF you got the stud out with the BFH and didn't somehow bend the hub, then you said bad words when the new studs fit really loose upon installation. why ? because upon removal, the swedgs ground the serration hole oversize on the way out. then it was either tack weld the stud to the hub, or try to find another stud that was slightly[approximately .010] larger on the spline od. than the original application. sometimes it just isn't as simple as it seems.