probably damaged ur ring gear time for some gears

 

What do you mean by that? You think it knocked the ring gear loose? The transmission seems fine.

 

you can change the wheel studs without removing the axles.

 

You can change rear wheel studs out without taking off the breaks. Just remove tire, hammer out old stud, pull new stud threw using a magnet, using a open end lug nut tighten wheel stud down till seated fully

 

I don't think you damaged your ring and pinion, especially if you are hearing it only when hitting a bump.

I actually had the sane thing happen to me a few months ago. Well, someone tried to take my wheels, and I wasn't aware of it.

My wheel went flying into oncoming traffic at 50mph. Car slid on my sway bar until I could get it stopped.

Anyway, I would jack the rear up and see if you can produce the sound while lifting/pulling on the tire. Make sure all your lugs are tight and make sure the studs they installed are in nice and tight.

 

Wow thats crazy. I would have been so pissed.

Thanks. I will check it out tomorrow.

 

if its like a squeak it might be your rear shocks, maybe even completely unrelated to your incident.

 

Definitely has nothing to do with the ring gear and most likely it's completely unrelated to the wheel issue.

 

It's a known fact that once you have something go wring on your car, or you install a mod, you tend to be a lot more observant with each and every noise your car makes.

What in saying is, this sound could have very well been there all along, but you weren't paying attention to it.

 

might be some supesnsion issues if the impact was hard enough. As far as loosing the tire, this happend to my friend not even 6 months ago. We were on our way to auto-fair (car show here at lows motor speedway in charlotte) and the previous night he forgot to tighten his lugs and all the suddon BAM! his rear DD tire pops off and beats his car down the highway. his rotor cut a nice 100' line in the asphalt, but the only damage was really done to his dust shield (and the rotor was kinda scuffed up on the outside)

 

After removing the wheel I find that the rotor was a bit loose.

I check and see that the bolt circled is loose. Is it supposed to be this loose? I am able to turn it with my finger. What should I torque it to?

 

No it shouldn't be loose. Just snug it up. Use a 3/8" socket and ratchet and you'll be good.

 

Problem solved, for free.

 

Tightened it up and all is good.

Yeah im glad it wasn't something serious, but those ****ers at Firestone better pay attention to what they are doing.

 

Damn dude. I work at a firestone and i can tell you that dude got fired haha. Its company policy.

 

*will get fired when I call tomorrow. And they should. Imagine if it was something more critical and a customer driving home suddenly had no response from their breaks...

 

if the wheel fell off then hes probobly already fired lol