what tools?

[dabill]

righty, found some 16v mk2 hubs im wanting, just gotta take them off my self.

only got an hour to do this 2morrow afternoon, so wat tools will i need.

they have the two bolts on the suspension leg, the two small ones on the ball joint, the track rod ends, and it will need splitting from the drive shaft. but i dont have the tool for splitting the drive shaft from the hub, where can i get this?

what size socksts will i need? guessing i'll need stacks of plusgas too!

cheers in advance,

rob

[tobz.]

the hub nut is 30mm, you'll ideally want a 3/4" drive socket and a HUGE breaker bar.
You'll probably need to do it with the wheels on the car with it on the ground and somebody standing on the brakes.

[dabill]

ahh... that could be a problem, its in the scrappies and it dont ave wheels... might have to jam a screwdriver down the vent holes on the discs to get the fooker off. sure i have a 30mm socket somewhere :S

the two nuts on the suspension leg? are they 15 or 12 mm? or neither?

im guessing i'll need that tool rubjohnny was on about in another post for splitting the track rod ends off?

cheers, rob

[tobz.]

Hmmm if it doesn't have wheels, isn't on the ground and the brakes don't work you'll do well to get it undone without an airgun. Probably easier to split the outer cv joints although then you'll have no hope of getting the nut undone to remove the remaining bit of driveshaft from the hub.

I'm pretty sure the bolts through the bottom of the shocks are 17mm.

[JimR]

They are 17mm yes, and what tobz said about the hub nut, you jam a screwdriver in the brake vent and either the brake disc or the screwdriver will break before the nut undoes, trust us on this.

[amgine]

I agree,
Hub          30mm I'm sure if use use a decent screw driver in the disc vent and a long lever on the socket you'll be ok.
Susp Legs  17mm. use two though cos the bolt often spins...
Trackrod    ??15mm?? but defo use a splitting tool once the nut is off.

goodluck.

[dabill]

right guys, got a big decent screw-driver so hopefully should be ok... got a hub splitting too aswell, along with a trac-rod-end splitter thingymabob.

was wondering, what torque are the nuts done upto on a hub?

[tobz.]

265nm!!! good luck

[dabill]

holf mother of mary! well, its a good big screwdriver and i have a pretty big breaker bar... hope i manage it, just need to figire out which was the turn the nut haha!

[monkeyalan]

this that valver at jays?

if so , you are mental ! good luck