Changing Front Lugs Hubs And Beaings

[simplegreen]

Ok first and foremost.. Some tips.
1) If you break a lug and you've had the car for a while suck it up and buy a whole new bearing and hub. When you pull a hub off of a bearing, most of the time the bearing casing comes apart. And the other lugs are probably week too. Plus trying to separate a bad hub and a decent bearing is hard as hell cause the fit is so very very tight (like a 30 year old virgin) it's almost impossible.

2) You WILL need a press of some sort I've seen like clamping press' or a normal press you'll see in the picture. If you have access to them continue on.


Items you will need.

1) New hub - about 120 bucks for a 6th gen OEM (dealer cost)
2) New bearing about 50 bucks OEM (dealer cost)
3) Ball joint fork
4) High impact gun or something to get the axle nut off and back on.
5) Flat head and Phillips head (bang impact screw driver if you have access to one)
6) Ratchet and sockets etc (don?t forget your axle nut socket 32mm I believe or 36, I can never remember)
7) As much new hardware as you can scrape together (pins, nuts bushings whatever.)
8) Beer and chips.


Flow goes- Instruction then picture for the instruction

1) Look at your sheared off bolt and your other stripped bolt.



2) Get kind of pissed and drink a swig of beer.


3) Take off the wheel. (Come on guys you shouldn?t even have to read this part)


4) There ya go..



5) Take off the shoe and pads caliper and such. It's like 4-5 bolts as shown in sequence here.







6) Now you?re ready of the axle Nut. Hit the pinched part of the nut out of the indent (hard to explain but you'll see what I mean)




7) Ok now before you can take out the axle you have to undo the steering rod bolt (ball joint) the lower control arm and all other hindering bolts (MAKE SURE YOU PUT THEM IN A SAFE PLACE, I like using zip lock bags.. you'd be surprised how hard crown nuts are to find.






8) Once your done pull the axle out of the hub



9) Now take the rotor off the hub (really easy two screws





10) Now this next step is optional, if you need to take the thing brake assem. to a press (like the 20 ton one showed below the next picture) you need to take the top "camber" crown nut off. From what I understand there is a tool that you do not need to take off most of this crap we've shown it press's the new hub on the bearing in one shot, I don?t know what it's called and we're not that fancy so we took it off.




(This is a press)



11) Ok now the tricky part if your going to do the press yourself MAKE SURE YOU PUT THE BEARING ON CORRECTLY Seriously if you don?t you most likely wont be able to get it off and you'll have to buy both parts again. so make certain your not putting it on upside down (look at your old bearing/hub its distinctive.

(no picture sorry)


12) Ok not that you got all the pieces on (hub and bearing) do all the steps above in reverse and put your brake assem. back together.


Put the rotor back on..

Brake shoe and caliper back on YOU DO NOT HAVE TO RE BLEED THEM unless you disconnect the lines.

Put your axle nut back on and don?t forget to hit it with the hammer and flat head to crease the nut back into the little slot provided on the axle itself. (You?ll know what I mean)



13) For god sakes go over all your nuts and make sure you have coder pins where you need them and all of them are tight. And secure..

Then put the tire back on.


14) Throw on the new lugs.


You?re done.. Take her for a short test spin make sure your brakes work and all lol (below are the old parts taken off)

[Calesta]

Nice writeup! Those wheels are pretty sweet too.