How to Remount Your Wheel & Tire Assembly

Video Transcript

"In this clip, we're going to talk about the proper service procedure to rebuild a front brake caliper. In this step, we're going to talk about the proper service procedure for remounting our wheel and tire assembly and snugging down our lug nuts. Take and roll my wheel up and kind of generally align it with the studs on the rotor. Pick it up. I'm going to use a little leverage on my leg. It'll save your back some when you're picking it up. And line it up with the studs, just like so. From there, we're going to take our lug nuts and start them on there. You're not going to want to use any kind of lubricant on your stud threads just in the off chance that the lubricant will impede the tightening seeker, the tightening of your lug nuts, and cause them to spin off as you drive. The Department of Transportation doesn't recommend any lubrication at all. Once you have them all started, my tool of choice for snugging them up is a four way. You get a little bit of a mechanical advantage. Take and slip that on the bottom. And I like doing the bottom one first 'cause it's the one that's normally pitched out the most. We're going to take and use what they call a Star pattern. A star pattern's going to insure that our wheel snugs down flat and true to the rotor surface. I'm going to start here, and move from this one to here. Now if you don't get the wheel run down flat and true, it's possible that it can vibrate off. You know, it doesn't happen extremely often but it does happen. You see those tires laying on the side of the road? Well, some people just didn't throw them there. There you go, we're going to go over here to this one. The reason why they call it a star pattern is that you have five lug nuts and out of the five lug nuts, you're going to draw a five pointed star. Right there. Let me just show you why they call it the Star pattern. The procedure we used, was I started with this lug nut here. From there I went to here, from there to here, from there to here, and there to here. As you can see, we drew a five pointed star. It's imperative that you snug them down in that method in order to make sure the wheel is true and flat against the hub surface. That is the proper procedure for mounting your wheel and tire and snugging your lug nuts."