Trailing arm removal / reinstall

[robinlarry]

[Your S will be a "mish mash" of imperial and metric!]

It sounds like that's how TVR built it in the first place.

[phillpot]

robinlarry said:

It sounds like that's how TVR built it in the first place.

Correct!

[robinlarry]

So now I have to reinstall the trailing arm,drive shaft, and spare tire to attempt to remove the d### hub nut. It would have been a lot easier when I had the brakes installed. (Yes, it turns clockwise on the RH side).

[tvrgit]

tvrgit said:

Surely better to remove hub and bearings if you're stripping rust and paint?

Alan Whitaker said:

Take off shocks, calipers, discs, remove the hub nuts and remove the bearing carriers(lightens up the trailing arms as well)

phillpot said:

You can lead a horse to water but..................

Some of us have been there before and try to offer advice. Some of us wonder why we bother.

I can think of a way to get the nut off without reassembling everything. It's probably not Elfin Safety approved though so I'm not going to be specific, in case you break your curly-wurly and come back and sue. What you need to do is prevent the wheel turning while you undo the nut. That doesn't necessarily mean that the wheel and hub has to be on the car though...

[phillpot]

There is indeed " more than one way to skin a cat" .............



(Brake drum is still fitted but brakes are not on)



Alternatively now they are off drop them down to a local workshop and ask nicely if they'll run them off with an impact wrench

[glenrobbo]

This is all just reactionary torque guys.

[Adrian@]

glenrobbo said:

This is all just reactionary torque guys.

Hohoho....and as for ...Alternatively now they are off drop them down to a local workshop and ask nicely if they'll run them off with an impact wrench.
Wellllll...Do as I say not as I do.


Humour is the best policy
Adrian@

[mentall]

You need one of these:



No bent hub bolts, no damaged threads.
Available, free short-term loan, only to nice people in the South-west.

[robinlarry]

I suppose you don't mean south west Ohio.

[magpies]

just remember to protect the wheel stud threads - even if it is by a goodly number of turns of electricians tape

[mentall]

robinlarry said:

I suppose you don't mean south west Ohio.

Or even West Brompton (SW 10). But delivery by post is going to be expensive: it weighs about 10kg.

[phillpot]

Adrian@ said:

Hohoho....and as for ...Alternatively now they are off drop them down to a local workshop and ask nicely if they'll run them off with an impact wrench.
Wellllll...Do as I say not as I do.

Should have said, truck, bus or coach workshop... they have big ones!

[robinlarry]

All apart. Special thanks to Phillpot for his clever suggestion. New hub nuts and bearings in the post.