Engineerbasher Posted Thursday at 12:54 AM Report Share Posted Thursday at 12:54 AM I figured I'd share this with whomever finds themselves fighting with stuck bearing assembly. The bolts are regular 1/2 inch grade 2 carriage bolts with nuts and washers. I tightened the nuts up and gave the hub a good wack to break it loose then just worked it out by turning the nuts on the back of the hub until it came out. 2late4u and 5rebel9 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5rebel9 Posted Thursday at 10:35 AM Report Share Posted Thursday at 10:35 AM Certainly a "novel" approach to a "sticky situation"! In my climate area, we try our best to not have to remove the rotor dust shield as those small 6mm bolts tend to just snap off the heads and leave you with more "fixing" to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John/Horace Posted Friday at 09:48 PM Report Share Posted Friday at 09:48 PM Yeah torch or induction heater on those small shield bolts; then back in with anti seize or dab of grease. You can sure tell it's a southern vehicle; the salt does so much more damage on northern vehicles. Makes me jealous. My back wheel bearing hubs needed new 16mm bolts because of corrosion. I like the cost effective diy puller; cheap and very effective. I was using two cold chisels as wedges and a 5 pound club hammer in my early wheel bearing work. Finally got a cheapo Harbor Freight/Princess Auto sliding hammer about five yrs ago. Fast but sometimes you have ball bearings flying across the garage. But I prefer swapping a hub over pressing in a bearing any day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineerbasher Posted 19 hours ago Author Report Share Posted 19 hours ago I'm not too far south, Ross County Ohio. They heavily salt the roads, when I got this car a few years ago I put about $75 worth of fluid film on all the undercarriage stuff. Also my wife (it's her car) likes to take it through the car wash in the winter. Unfortunately I've had to junk a couple vehicles because of rust and this is the first car I've bought that wasn't rusting away away n I have tried to keep it from from rusting terribly. I think this is the 2nd set of front brakes I've put on it and it's about due for a 3rd but not quite yet. I also had to replace the inner/outer tie rods. I figure when it's ready for a brake job I'll replace the ball joints, struts an swabar links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2late4u Posted 11 hours ago Report Share Posted 11 hours ago (edited) 7 hours ago, Engineerbasher said: I'm not too far south, Ross County Ohio. They heavily salt the roads, when I got this car a few years ago I put about $75 worth of fluid film on all the undercarriage stuff. Also my wife (it's her car) likes to take it through the car wash in the winter. Unfortunately I've had to junk a couple vehicles because of rust and this is the first car I've bought that wasn't rusting away away n I have tried to keep it from from rusting terribly. I think this is the 2nd set of front brakes I've put on it and it's about due for a 3rd but not quite yet. I also had to replace the inner/outer tie rods. I figure when it's ready for a brake job I'll replace the ball joints, struts an swabar links. Get your pads off amazon I only use akabano, they are the OEM maker of pads made in USA and they are great quality Edited 11 hours ago by 2late4u Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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