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[AliM]

Found these instructions, but is there anything else I need to know? or could anybody offer any tips on how to make it easier? ("take it to the professionals" doesn't count)

Cheers
Ali

It is an easy job (apart from undoing the bolts) a quick step through is like this:

1) jack up
2) wheel off
3) undo wheel hub nut (castle nut)
4) caliper off
5) disc off
6) undo the three hub bolts
7) hub off
8) replace in reverse order

[Andrew aka Stuwy]

while it may look easy, i can garante one of the bolts has desided to stay where it is forever...

[Winstar]

probably a piece of scafold pole to get enough force to get the bolts off

[SteveA]

while it may look easy, i can garante one of the bolts has desided to stay where it is forever...

I managed to get both front hubs off without major issues but I did have to jack the car up really high and use a 2 foot breaker bar with an impact socket. Don't use a cheap socket as misshaping the bolt heads even slightly will see them need cutting off with an angle grinder

[AliM]

I managed to get both front hubs off without major issues but I did have to jack the car up really high and use a 2 foot breaker bar with an impact socket. Don't use a cheap socket as misshaping the bolt heads even slightly will see them need cutting off with an angle grinder

ah ffs it's me, it is not going to be an easy job.

Edited by AliM, 09 August 2011 - 12:36 PM.

[SteveA]

An hour per hub tops for a pro to do it plus they will have air impact wrenches which makes things massively easier. The difficulty will depend on the level of corrosion there. My fronts came off OK but I couldn't move one of the rear bolts at all.

Edited by SteveA, 09 August 2011 - 12:40 PM.

[AliM]

An hour per hub tops. The pro's will have air impact wrenches which makes things massively easier.

OK, thanks Steve.

I'll have to try it myself, but if it looks like it's going to be a bugger i'll take it to a garage.

Cheers

[The Batman]

I agree only use 6 sided sockets There is a bodge you can do though unless you want to make it all proper

[AliM]

I agree only use 6 sided sockets

There is a bodge you can do though unless you want to make it all proper

I'm sick of my car being one big bodge. If you mean solder the wires back onto the hub, i did that last time and it lasted 10 minutes. I've bought the new hub now and all the stuff for my ABS cut off switch, so will just change it.

[The Batman]

Sort off... Just solder new Cables to another hubs abs sensor

[Nikov]

All my hubs came off dead easy. Seems I was lucky, hope you are too. Good luck.

[AliM]

Sort off... Just solder new Cables to another hubs abs sensor

I've got more chance of changing the hub myself than doing any sort of wiring wizardry!

[drpau]

Are you doing the rears? Best to use a hub puller to get it off the spline of the driveshaft.. I got one from Halfords (was only 4 bolt hub style but managed to make it work).. Was a bitch of a job getting those 3 hub bolts off. There was some effin and jeffin.....

[AliM]

Are you doing the rears? Best to use a hub puller to get it off the spline of the driveshaft.. I got one from Halfords (was only 4 bolt hub style but managed to make it work)..

Was a bitch of a job getting those 3 hub bolts off. There was some effin and jeffin.....

I'm just doing the OSF Paul, I imagine the air will be blue

would the puller thingymebob work on the front?

[turbobob]

If you aren't sorted when I get back from holiday, I'd be happy to take a look at soldering the wires.

Edited by turbobob, 09 August 2011 - 08:59 PM.

[AliM]

If you aren't sorted when I get back from holiday, I'd be happy to take a look at soldering the wires.

Thanks Bob, but it's been done before and it doesn't hold because they broke too close to the hub. Have bought the replacement parts so will give it a crack

[turbobob]

If you aren't sorted when I get back from holiday, I'd be happy to take a look at soldering the wires.

Thanks Bob, but it's been done before and it doesn't hold because they broke too close to the hub. Have bought the replacement parts so will give it a crack

Well the offer stands as its what I do for a living

But good luck with changing it

[Anarchy]

I had a go on my driveway, could not remove the three bolts so ended up splitting it off with the whole hub carrier casting thingy whatever still attached ie. at the hub carrier bolts/ball joint and took the whole assembly to a place with an air impact wrench. The discs were quite badly rusted on too Good luck.

[14500rpm]

Do you need to use new hub nuts (to connect to the driveshaft) when you put it back together?

[Pidgeon]

Ali, you don't need a puller on the front (no driveshaft to push out), 14,500, all the ones I have bought have been supplied with a different replacement Torx headed nuts, I reused originals