13 replies to this topic

[philip663]

As the title says iv tried everything from 6ft breaker bars, heat a couple of times and plenty of days soaked in penetraiting oil but still no luck. Now I have my mates compressor and it still won't shift it. Any ideas?

[Jordie]

which hub nut? front or back? o/s or n/s?

[DeadBert]

I just cut the nut in 2 with some nut splitters. Saved a lot of effort!

[charie t]

As the title says iv tried everything from 6ft breaker bars

How are you locking the wheel?

[philip663]

Sorry it's a front one, not sure which side as I have it off in my vice atm, clamped real tight but even with a breaker bar it just turns in the vice

[jamesy]

get some heat on it!

[mike.]

You should of left it on the car, it'll be hard to clamp it securely enough in a vice to get enough force on it.

With it on the car you can hold it with the weight of the car and someone holding the brakes

[sledgehammer]

pop it back on the car , chock the wheels , have some one on the brake pedal

make sure the socket is a good fit - fit breaker bar , maybe with scaffold bar on the end

bounce on the bar till it gives - and it will suddenly - so watch your fingers and everything else

IIRC (check) both fronts are Right Hand Thread - 150 lbf - although sometimes 150000000000 lbf when removing

best of luck

[philip663]

Problem is I haven't even got my subframe on the car atm otherwise I would lol. My friends taken it off to his workshop now because even lots of heat and 6ft breaker bar or air gun just wouldn't shift it. Ugh the joys of owning a mini!

[1992andy]

i used a 1" impact gun, beast of a gun, it soon shifted it with a quick zap of the button. the impact gun was meant for a truck though

[Ethel]

An impact gun will help get round the torque reaction problem. You could bolt it to something using the wheel studs, even just a wheel to stand on. Minimising the hose length between the gun and the compressor also helps. (prepares to look a muppet if it's a battery powered whizz gun).

[pogie]

I had the same problem and ended up breaking my 1/2inch Snap-On breaker bar (the 5 foot scaffold tube slipped over the end didn't help). I cut down the side of the nut with a Dremel until I could just see the tops of the threads on the CV joint and then splitting the nut with a chisel. Turned out the hub and CV were both worn which probably caused the nut to fret its way onto the shaft.

[tiger99]

If you have already used lots of heat, the nut and the CV are now scrap, as the metal will be seriously weakened, so you may as well cut it off with an angle grinder. If you have only used a little bit of heat, i.e. nowhere near red hot, just cut the nut with the angle grinder, as close to the thread of the CV as possible without damaging it. The very thinned down part of the nut remaining will stretch, and your breaker bar will easily shift it. There is a danger of damaging the conical locking collar with the grinder, but a new one of these is not particularly expensive.

[peter-b]

Just cut the nut off, put new one on........problem solved. No heating beating swearing or skin tearing, just 5 mins with a hacksaw.

Edited by peter-b, 19 August 2012 - 08:22 AM.