Guide: How To Replace C5 Rear Wheel Studs

Sometimes us writers get lucky and a story practically writes itself. Most of the time that’s just because we have creative juices in our brains firing on all cylinders. In today’s case, it was because of sheer stupidity. After lowering my new-to-me 2000 FRC on the stock bolts, (there’s a nice feature here), I wanted to get the rear wheels out more flush with the fenders. In the past two-plus decades, I’ve put spacers on previous C5s with no issue, heck I’ve probably logged well over a hundred thousand miles.

But today the simple-mod gods had a different plan for me. If you have a story about a “simple” modification gone wrong, I’d love to hear from you on our Facebook page.

There is something liberating about working on your own Corvette and getting some grease under your fingernails, but this experience was a bit humbling. It all began with this.