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Hopefully somebody might find this useful if their hubs and carriers are off the car and don't have a secure vice.
Following several posts reporting this can be a bit of a pig especially with the hubs and carriers off and prompted by an historic post, I bolted a 2m length of unistrut to a piece of ply secured to the hub with the wheel nuts. At first it didn't look like it was going to budge with just the breaker bar but with a length of tube and a trolley jack handle it went without too much trouble.
Following several posts reporting this can be a bit of a pig especially with the hubs and carriers off and prompted by an historic post, I bolted a 2m length of unistrut to a piece of ply secured to the hub with the wheel nuts. At first it didn't look like it was going to budge with just the breaker bar but with a length of tube and a trolley jack handle it went without too much trouble.
10/10 for ingenuity OP.
I found myself contemplating some sort of similar construction last week.
I'd equipped myself with the requisite 3/4 inch drive 41mm socket and breaker bar and had a good length of scaffolding bar to hand, but thought I'd give it a try in the vice first.
Given that the recommended torque setting is 250ftlbs I had little expectation of success, and expected the hub to pop out of the vice long before the nut moved.
I couldn't have been more wrong. The nuts started turning long before I had to bring anything like the full weight of my own bulbous frame to bear, let alone reach for the scaffolding pole.
Reading previous threads on this topic, it seems to be a bit of a lottery as to how tight your hub nuts are likely to be.
I found myself contemplating some sort of similar construction last week.
I'd equipped myself with the requisite 3/4 inch drive 41mm socket and breaker bar and had a good length of scaffolding bar to hand, but thought I'd give it a try in the vice first.
Given that the recommended torque setting is 250ftlbs I had little expectation of success, and expected the hub to pop out of the vice long before the nut moved.
I couldn't have been more wrong. The nuts started turning long before I had to bring anything like the full weight of my own bulbous frame to bear, let alone reach for the scaffolding pole.
Reading previous threads on this topic, it seems to be a bit of a lottery as to how tight your hub nuts are likely to be.
Ta chaps. It was one of those jobs you read up on and sounds like a real pig of a job same as door cards, diff and mirror removal etc but when you get stuck in they aren't as bad as expected. Maybe I've been lucky.
Got the diff out and just about to remove the top bush. Plan is to use a hole saw to remove rubber and inner sleeve in one go and grind away outer sleeve with a burr until I can drift it out. Unless an one has a better suggestion?
Got the diff out and just about to remove the top bush. Plan is to use a hole saw to remove rubber and inner sleeve in one go and grind away outer sleeve with a burr until I can drift it out. Unless an one has a better suggestion?
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