kingr
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| posted on 17/3/03 at 02:43 PM |
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Sierra rear hub bolts
What size are Sierra rear hub bolts? They seem to be around the 41-42mm region, but I'm not certain. Where's the best (cheapest) place to get a
suitable socket from? I tried a localish tool shop, they could get 41mm but not 42mm, and they were looking to be pretty pricey (10-15 quid IIRC!)
plus they only had 3/4" drive, which would me messing around with converters or buying a 3/4" breaker bar (nice, but decidedly limited use, and also
certain to be expensive).
Kingr
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auzziejim
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| posted on 17/3/03 at 03:59 PM |
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the sierra rear hub bults are 41mm! and i think you will find it extramly hard to find one with less than a 3/4" drive! i borrowed mine from an
engineering friend to undo the one i could get undone. just gotta find another half shaft and hub carrier now 
try your local tool hire centre they should hire you a drive bar and socket for under a tenner
James
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James
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| posted on 17/3/03 at 04:11 PM |
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Anyway, bought from Camberley Auto Factors: 41mm, 1/2" drive, black 'impact style' for £11/12inc. vat.
Don't know where you are but there's quite a few branches around:
01252 518222 for Camberley branch.
I went for the more expensive impact as I knew I was taking it to a garage to get them to use their 650lbs/ft air ratchet on it. 
HTH,
James
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kingr
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| posted on 17/3/03 at 04:57 PM |
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Hmmm, phoned my friendly local tool shop, they'll do me a teng single hex 41mm 3/4 drive for £8, not bad, but I'll need a converter from 1/2" to
3/4" which is £10.70, not so good! Ah well, tempted to get it anyway. I'm guessing the front bolts are the same. Auzziejim - if you can't get the
bolt off, just do as jolly green told me - cut through it with a hacksaw close to the threads and then knock it off with a chisel, works a treat. You
may need to make a couple of cuts.
Kingr
P.s. Why couldn't ford think of a better way of holding the rear hubs on? 200+lb/ft of torque is bloody ridiculous, you can't undo them, it nigh on
impossible to do them up, there's very few troque wrenches that go that high and it's so tight you can only use the nuts once, keeps their parts
department in business I suppose.
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carnut
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| posted on 17/3/03 at 05:03 PM |
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You could try to warm the nut with a gas torch then use a rattle gun to take it off. Thats the only way I managed to get mine off.
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carnut
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| posted on 17/3/03 at 05:06 PM |
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Best to undo the nuts while still on the donor car which I didnt do then strugled to undo them.
Wait till you have to undo the drive shafts! Thats FUN! I knacked three T40 torque bits. (before you tell me to buy decent stuff, 2 were drapper and
the 3rd a snap-on)
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auzziejim
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| posted on 17/3/03 at 11:30 PM |
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my rear drivers side hub bult turns but the thread is fu
James
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Viper
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| posted on 17/3/03 at 11:38 PM |
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P.s. Why couldn't ford think of a better way of holding the rear hubs on? 200+lb/ft of torque is bloody ridiculous, you can't undo them, it nigh on
impossible to do them up, there's very few troque wrenches that go that high and it's so tight you can only use the nuts once, keeps their parts
department in business I suppose.
you should allways replace the nuts anyway because they are nylocs, and once used etc....
to get mine undone (and do up again) i used an old brake disc witha long bar welded to it, bolt this in place of the wheel resting the bar on the
floor this will stop the hub turning undone the nut with a 3 foot breaker bar and a 4 foot tube over the breaker bar, no problem
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kingr
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| posted on 18/3/03 at 09:47 AM |
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It's not getting the thing undone I'm worried about, it's getting the sodding things back on!!
Kingr
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CairB
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| posted on 18/3/03 at 12:57 PM |
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Kingr,
Are you referring to the centre nut? If so do you need to remove it? I thought I did when removing the half shafts from the donor but didn't need to.
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kingr
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| posted on 18/3/03 at 01:16 PM |
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CairB - I've already removed them, from the back and yes you do have to if you've got rear discs. I want to undo the front ones, so that I can clean
up and paint the front uprights more easily. And then of course I'll have to do them up again, so I'll need it for them too. My (broken after one
use) teng torque wrench doesn't go high enough, so I think I'll just have to take it to the limit of my troque wrench and then just get the biggest
knarliest socket extension I can lay my hands on and torque the crap out of it.
Kingr
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