How to remove rear hub carrier - need to press out bushes

[zed4]

Hi,

I need to remove the rear hub carriers to press the bushes out. I will be heading over to the garage tonight to do it, but just want to know exactly what’s involved. How do the carriers come apart from the driveshaft? Will I need any special tools, as I can stop at Halfords on the way?

Picture borrowed from another thread, but I need to get to this stage really...



Thanks,

Dan

[paulathome]

Hi,
I used a 4 leg puller from Halfords.
Undo the large nut, it will be very tight. (250ftlb)
Then fit puller and push drive shaft out.
This will allow you to undo the allen bolts that hold the up right to carriers.
Remove bearings and then tap out old bearing seals and races.
Use old races to tap new seals and races in. Reassemble.
Not difficult but you will need a puller.
Paul.

[wuckfitracing]

Tip, undo the nut in the centre before you take the assembly off. Its tightened up to high torque and may invove a scaffold bar to undo. From memory they may also be handed, ie left hand thread on nearside.

[jojackson4]

Mine just pulled out with the bare hand method
No puller
As for getting the bushes out that was a job for the 10 tonne press

[jojackson4]

wuckfitracing said:

Tip, undo the nut in the centre before you take the assembly off. Its tightened up to high torque and may invove a scaffold bar to undo. From memory they may also be handed, ie left hand thread on nearside.

As above they are handed slacken them before it leaves the ground

[phazed]

Don't touch the bearing and assembly, leave that in the hub carrier.

Undo the 6No cap bolts to disconnect the driveshaft from the hub, remove the top and the 2No lower bush mounts and remove the carrier complete.

Reassemble in reverse order.

Mark the top bolt/bush position so you can assemble and get the camber angle approximately correct.

[Colin RedGriff]

You can remove the bushes without removing the hub carriers. I did it using a tool I had made up for me that Rob Brookbank designed

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=33&...

[zed4]

Yeah, I don't want to remove the bearings, I just want to take the whole assembly off so I can get the bushes into the press.

Interesting tool, I don't have access to a lathe, but I wonder if my friend does.

[phazed]

I used a large bench vice, some old sockets and a hacksaw!

[QBee]

phazed said:

I used a large bench vice, some old sockets and a hacksaw!

And did it keep your Polish sub-contractors in order for the entire weekend?

[phazed]

Not quite but it kept me busy for a whole weekend to do the whole car!

[OleVix]

I'm doing this now, the two bottom ones on the upright are a real penis!!

[phazed]

OleVix said:

I'm doing this now, the two bottom ones on the upright are a real penis!!

I push out the centre rubber sleeve and vice and centre sleeve as one with suitable old socket.

Then insert a hacksaw blade through the bush, assemble the hacksaw and carefully cut a slot in the outer sleeve.

The sleeve can be easily pushed out.

HTH.

[Chimp871]

Did this a couple of weeks ago. Undo wheel hub nut whilst on cap (slacken), then undo 6 x bolts inside upright. Take to vice, burn it, press it, cut it whatever method you like. I left one bolt on shaft and 1 bolt on matching carrier to know original position.

The nuts are handed, if there's a horizontal notch on the corner of a nut it's a left handed thread!

The problem is torquing new nut back up (must be new ~£13 ea.), this is where I'm at. Torque requires a 3/4" wrench, I've only got 1/2". Thinking of hanging of a 2 metre cheater bar, should be about right

[Chimp871]

OleVix said:

I'm doing this now, the two bottom ones on the upright are a real penis!!

burn it, knock centre out, hacksaw outer collar. Then repeat 20 times

[Colin RedGriff]

zed4 said:

Yeah, I don't want to remove the bearings, I just want to take the whole assembly off so I can get the bushes into the press.

Interesting tool, I don't have access to a lathe, but I wonder if my friend does.

I just took the drawing to a local engineering company and they made it up for me

[OleVix]

Chimp871 said:

OleVix said:

I'm doing this now, the two bottom ones on the upright are a real penis!!

burn it, knock centre out, hacksaw outer collar. Then repeat 20 times

my neighbor has a lathe and a 10 ton press, thank god, got them out today
uprights and all wishbones are now sandblasted and ready for epoxy primer and polyurethane heavy duty paint

Edited by OleVix on Wednesday 28th January 22:46

[zed4]

OleVix said:

Chimp871 said:

OleVix said:

I'm doing this now, the two bottom ones on the upright are a real penis!!

burn it, knock centre out, hacksaw outer collar. Then repeat 20 times

my neighbor has a lathe and a 10 ton press, thank god, got them out today
uprights and all wishbones are now sandblasted and ready for epoxy primer and polyurethane heavy duty paint

Edited by OleVix on Wednesday 28th January 22:46

I've just dropped my wishbones off with a friend as he's got a press. He's going to press all the bushes out of the wishbones for me. I haven't removed the upright yet, I didn't have much time so I just removed the wishbones. I might try to remove the bushes in situ, otherwise I'll haveto try and remove the upright.

By the way, I'm getting my wishbones metallised, which is a process where molten zinc sprayed on. It basically galvanises the metal. Once that's done I'm going to paint them in white epoxy paint.