Tight hub nut

[classicswede]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

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!

What is the purpose of pressing the brakes?

Blonde moment?

[TonyS9]

Originally Posted by classicswede

What is the purpose of pressing the brakes?

Blonde moment?

Lol I was wondering that too, probably a FWD plant.

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by classicswede

What is the purpose of pressing the brakes?

Blonde moment?

Originally Posted by TonyS9

Lol I was wondering that too, probably a FWD plant.

The pair of you are kidding, right?

[360beast]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

The pair of you are kidding, right?

This made me chuckle, if they are Nein serious then pressing the brakes stops the hub from spinning so you can undo it with the breaker bar etc.

[griston64]

Perhaps i'm being stupid but the hub nut doesn't rotate with the hub. The car will obviously be jacked up so I wouldn't have thought pressing the brake would make any difference ?

I'm new to all this so I may be wrong

[griston64]

Also when you get the point I am at the brakes aren't even attached

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

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!

Originally Posted by 360beast

This made me chuckle, if they are Nein serious then pressing the brakes stops the hub from spinning so you can undo it with the breaker bar etc.

Originally Posted by griston64

Perhaps i'm being stupid but the hub nut doesn't rotate with the hub. The car will obviously be jacked up so I wouldn't have thought pressing the brake would make any difference ?

I'm new to all this so I may be wrong

Originally Posted by griston64

Also when you get the point I am at the brakes aren't even attached

Mark, if you re-read what i first put the clue starts to appear. Refit the parts to the car.

Luke is very nearly spot-on with the reason and if it was a driven hub then would be spot-on but read on.

However, there is another reason and that is the car is a heavy weight. It's on wheels though so any force applied will tend to make it roll. If one end is on the jack, this could be pretty dangerous. Also it's a waste of energy moving the car with your effort to turn the hub nut when what you really want is for all of your energy to go into moving the nut.

Standing on the brakes turns the car into an immovable object so it works with you to shift the nut rather than trying to roll away from you.

[griston64]

I borrowed my mates impact driver and the nut came off a doddle

The bolts holding the splash plate ( what was left of it ) on were badly corroded and as they kind of look liked allen key head I had a go with that but they just rounded off inside.

I ended up having to hammer a small socket over the head and my mate the impact driver did the rest

Does anyone know if they actually are allen key heads ? I still cant tell as they are so badly rusted

Happy days

Now to start the clean up

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[Chooch84]

Was that impact driver that dirty before you used it?

Vida is showing that it's a "hexagon screw" standard bolt Part number is 3516912

[griston64]

Originally Posted by Chooch84

Was that impact driver that dirty before you used it?

Vida is showing that it's a "hexagon screw" standard bolt Part number is 3516912

Funny as mine deffo look like round head with allen key hole

The impact driver was that dirty when I picked it up from my mates garage. I had to wear gloves it was so manky