yeah this is common, I can work on anything that is not mine and everything will go smooth as soon as I do something on my own vehicle ... every possible obstacle will rear its ugle head.

 

Here's another one for you guys.

My 2004 Rainier with 42k miles on it. Change the front brake pads & rotors due to a pulsation that was there when I bought the vehicle with 23k miles on it. Everything went smooth as silk until I torqued down the lug nuts. I spin the nuts on with a large cross style lug wrench until they are tight enough to be able to let the vehicle down off the jack stands. Roll the vehicle back to get everything settled back to normal and then torque down the wheels. Driver side goes perfectly fine. Passenger side first lug clicks at 100ftlbs. Second lug goes 1 full turn before I moved onto the 3rd which clicks. 4th, 5th, & 6th lug take a full turn... Go back to #2, another full turn... Odd... #4, 1/2 turn then *SNAP*... DAMN! Well, 4 of the 6 studs elongated under less than 100ftlbs of torque... Glad I found that out in my driveway and not on the road!

 

I replaced pads and rotors on an 04 Dodge Ram 4X4 and was having trouble getting the calipers back on and keeping the rotor in place. I put washers on the wheel studs and used the lug nuts to secure the rotor from moving around while installing the calipers back on. I put everything back together except that I forgot to remove the washers. There was quite a vibration in the front end untill I took the wheel off and found the washers. I repeated the same mistake on the other side. The other thing that happened is the lug nuts on the ram are covered in alluminum, on a couple of lug nuts the cover spun and I had to cut the cover off in order to remove the lug nut.

 

It was the factory upper right one with 115k on it. I couldnt get it to pop out of the knuckle.

 

Ahh factory ones I can imagine could make more of a headache. Mine were all replaced before so they were bolted in and only took a few good whacks with a 4lb sledge to get out of the knuckles.