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Re: Rear Hub removal

To: "Matthew E. Hale" <haleme@bellsouth.net>, "Mg List"
Subject: Re: Rear Hub removal
From: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:38:45 +0100
The tube axle has a normal thread both sides.  I had to use a 5 foot breaker
bar on mine - wheel back on and on the ground with centre cap removed -
before one side could be shifted.  Hammering a breaker bar probably doesn't
do much - too much inertia in the bar - it just need a long enough lever and
enough weight.  But on another axle lying on the ground I got both sides off
without problem.  Once the nut is off the hub is on a taper, I used metal
wedges between the back of the hub and the heads of the backplate bolts to
shift it.

PaulH.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew E. Hale" <haleme@bellsouth.net>
To: "Mg List" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 9:01 PM
Subject: Rear Hub removal


> I am disassembling the rear axle and am having trouble removing the rear
> hub.  I got the cotter pin out without incident; the 1 5/16" crown nut
> holding the hub to the axle shaft will not budge.  I have tried a
> breaker bar with a hammer and an impact driver and cannot get anything.
> I have made sure that the front of the differential is not spinning, so
> I can rule that out.  Last, does the side of the car impact which way
> the nut spins?  I think the banjo axle does, but my tubed axle does not.

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