Reply to "Rear hub adjustment"

I'll conduct weekly checks and see how it fares with road use, but on first drive impressions, it seems like I'm out of the woodpile, and have escaped the fire for the time being. Now I can get onto sourcing the new components and do it all again. At least I've had some practice now.

By the way, that bloody nut is tight!!!

I had to make the tool to do up the ring nut on the back of the hub as there is no local source for such a thing.

To do it up, I fitted the hub to the lower control arm and also fitted the five wheel nuts to protect the studs.

Then I let the hub lay outwards so that the tips of the wheel nuts rested on the floor, or in my case, the deck of the four post hoist. I had to jack the car up a little to ensure that all five wheel nuts were contacting the deck of the hoist. Then I grabbed a five foot length of steel pipe (actually an old torsion bar) and slipped it between the wheel nuts and allowed the other end to contact the leg of the hoist. My tension wrench is a 1/2" drive that goes to 300 ft/lbs, and with the bar against the studs stopping the hub from turning, it was tough, but straight forward to get some serious bloody tension onto that nut. Having the hub lay over so that the wheel nuts contacted the hoist deck also made it very comfortable to work on the tensioning as everything was captive and laying flat.

As it's 1.25am here, I'll post a pic of my home made nut tool tomorrow. Best sneak into the cot now and try not to wake the Mrs!