Help - Cant Undo Hub Nuts!

[pa402 0]

Trying to remove driveshafts and I cant get hub nuts to budge at all. I been using a large socket, with 5 foot extended metal pole (although that is bending a fair bit) and have now just snapped the socket bar where it goes into the 35mm socket. Any ideas how I can get these damn nuts off?

 

Or alternative is it possible to remove the driveshafts still attached to the hubs?

 

Any help welcome

 

Cheers

Paul

[GLPoomobile 958]

Yes, you can remove them with the hubs attached, if you really have no choice.

[markw 1]

had a similar problem took it to a local tyre place and they undone them with there impact gun,if you cant drive the car

go out and buy an impact driver sealey do one £5.99 plus vat from machine mart with 1/2" adapter,fit your 35mm onto

it and smack the fooker as hard as you can with a big hammer.

[jonnie205 1]

best borrow a 3/4 breaker bar and socket, slide scaffold bar over the end and job done, hub nuts is the only thing on a 205 which 1/2 is on its limit

[pa402 0]

Well managed to get the engine out with them still attached to hubs.

 

Cant wait till I need to reattach them!!

 

Thanks

[stuart.m 0]

As said, impact driver! Works a treat.

[B1ack_Mi16 67]

Also try heating it up a bit first with a heat gun...

[johnnyboy666 195 1 Cars]

managed to snap 2, 1/2" drive bars undoing mine, then decided to use a huuuuge (1 inch drive i think) bar from a mates farm for using on tractors

[ricky123 0]

i spent hours trying to get mine off then my neighbour came over with a blowtorch, heated it up then smacked it with a hammer and chizzle only took 15 mins

[Guest cooper205]

another way is to use a 1/2" drive bar with a short scafold bar over it and put the car into reverse and flick the starter over that should also undo it

[Guest Mark D]

Hi,

 

Heating up is normally a good option, using a breaker bar with a short rather than deep socket works as well for me, also tapping each of the flats with a thick pin punch and hammer .

 

Old trick, passed down from me Dad and a really old guy I was a trainee toolmaker with was to tighten the nut (or try to) first, this seems for some reason work. You don't have to actually make the nut visually move but applying a good amount of pressure as if tightening and then trying to release the nut seems to break any corrosion.

 

Mark

[Veero 1]

Had this with the 306 the other day. Bugger wouldn't move.

 

Put the steelie with a hole through the middle on (or use a 1.9 alloy with the centre cap removed) instead lowered the car back down, wedged a brick under the wheel the way it would turn being undone, then used a 2 1/2 ft breaker bar with a 1/" drive impact socket on it. Just came undone with a bit of grunt. No hammering heating or tapping.