Tight hub nut
 

Any tips on getting this b***ard undone ?

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Got my 3ft bar on it but it won't budge

Refit it to the car, get your glamorous assistant to stand on the brake pedal while you use a 3/4 drive socket set with a 6' scaffold pole over the outside to get it to shift!

Alternatively use an air impact wench on it to shock it free.

Good luck with it Mark! :thumbs_up:

It's my spare struts that I'm refurbishing Dave so I already have struts on car.

I'll have another few attempts and if that fails it's off to my mates garage for the impact wrench

plus six feet of scaffold pole? and two Weetabix for breky before hand! and don't swear at it,hub nuts are very sensitive. "We can do this old chap" would be more effective.:rolleyes:

Regards,Keith.

Mine will now be sadly scarred for life after the abuse it's received in the last hour :shocked::shocked:

Those nuts are tightened to 74lb/ft and then 45 degrees more Mark so they're "FT". I used the 3/4" socket set and 6' scaffold pole on mine, you'd probably get away with a 1/2" socket set and a 4' scaffold pole.

Once they're loose, the rest is fairly easy but the bearings were expensive with a capital "F", i was lucky and found some on fleabay, NOS for £3 each + £10 each P&P but that was a long while back now.

I have no scaffold pole so it's off to my mates garage tomorrow. I'm going to get new hubs Dave as I cant put them back on my refurbished struts :teeth_smile::teeth_smile:

Do you have access to an impact driver?

I don't have one but my mate owns a garage so will pop in there and use his

Cheers

They are on the limit of a 1/2inch drive bar. My bar flexes doing these and feels ready to snap but it has survived 20 odd of these in the last year.