Wheel stud upgrade

Has anyone upgraded their wheel studs to thicker diameter? Curious what's involved if it's even possible with stock spindles and rear end.

 

Interesting. This is the first I’ve heard of this (there are lots of things I have heard of, doesn’t really mean much)
What’s the advantage of a thicker stud?

I replaced my studs with longer ones because I’m using steelies with tundra brakes and needed 3/16” spacers.

 

Why ??

Do you know how much work would need to be done ??

Just what size do you want to increase to??

 

I don't know how much work it would be, hence why I made this thread and asked that exact question. It's common to run 5/8 studs on race hubs and prerunners. I have a set of wheels I want to run that are drilled out for 5/8 studs and it couldn't hurt to have some extra strength. Just a thought.

 

Ah okay...makes more sense. If you're running enough power and really using your truck that could come in handy.
ONTH are broken/bent studs a common thing?
You'd need to modify the hubs and rotors. I wonder if you were to drill out the hubs if you'd just make those weaker and how much weaker? In the end you'd have an overall weaker system. The better option would be hubs with the correct sizing to fit the 5/8" studs.

Down where you live there's probably lots of wide open desert roads to blast down.

Edit: got any pics of these wheels...just curious.

 

I went to a higher strength and longer stud for all 4 wheels on my 96. The only special thing I had to do was to rotate the front rotor backing plate and shorten the new longer front studs maybe 1/4" to get the angle on them to fit through the back of the hub while it was on the truck. There was still more than enough stud protruding past the lug nut. The original issue was that the M/T aluminum rims are so thick that not many threads were being used when the lug nuts were tightened.