Quick question

[caduceus]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 04 February 2015 at 15:25

[QBee]

That is what the Steve Heath bible says, top of page 207. It also says check first, it's a TVR. It also says be bloody careful you don't tip the car off the jack and axle stands. In gear, handbrake on. Friend watching the car.

[QBee]

Just read a bit more:

" to stop the nuts coming undone, some may have been fitted with a collar and groove arrangement, .......hammer and chisel needed.....replace the nut before re-assembling"

[QBee]

Do you want photos of the relevant pages of the book? There's a fair bit about torquing them back up.....

[Quinny]

^^^^that is correct^^^^

[Quinny]

If you have one, An air ratchet or "rattle gun" as Aussie John calls em is the best way of undoing these

[QBee]

If you haven't got a rattle gun, get one!! Great fun changing wheels at track days. Takes the hassle and time loss out of it, and makes you look professional.
Got my DeWalt one as a special offer with an 18volt drill from Screwfix. Best toy ever. You just need a £5 set of adapters to allow you to use sockets with it. . Drill's not bad either, the batteries seem to go on for ever.

[QBee]

PS

The bible says that as the nuts are torqued up to 200 lb/ft, Steve Heath recommends a three quarter inch drive socket with a six foot length of pipe to get sufficient leverage, unless you are an Olympic weight lifter.

Personally, I would get a proper man in, but then I am to mechanics what Arnold Schwarzenegger is to tap dancing.

[Quinny]

Have you undone the hex bolts from the cv joint??

[QBee]

There's six of them. What was in the holes on the right hand side of the last of your pics?I have only seen the bolts from the ther side,

[QBee]

caduceus said:

Nope

Don't tell me they're inside the upright....

They are around the rubber boot on the drive shaft. They hold the drive shaft to the CV joint and I guess the hub. I know nothing about how the hub assembles, but I watched an expert change my drive shaft rubber boots ten days ago so saw what went on in there.

[QBee]

Or am I? Looking at that pic, which end is which of that assembly? The hex bolts are out of the right hand end, but they would be to remove it from the diff? In which case you would seem to be correct.

The bible says to use a hub puller, and not to attempt it without the right tools.

[Quinny]

This might help

http://youtu.be/m4eZzsYmDcg

[Quinny]

Unlikely I'd say...

[WinstonWolf]

I've not removed one but that looks like a job for a puller, not a persuader...