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(Message started by: low_tom on Jan 30^th, 2005, 9:48pm)

Title: driveshaft removal
Post by low_tom on Jan 30^th, 2005, 9:48pm

can anyone help me by recommending the best way to remove the hub nut on the driveshafts please so i can split the hub and remove the trailing arm. It's like nothing i've seen before and kinda looks like it's had a tab washer pressed into it to keep it in place. Advice please guys.

Title: Re: driveshaft removal
Post by scorpio_man on Jan 30^th, 2005, 9:49pm

hi there

is this any good to you?

http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/suspensionman.htm

Title: Re: driveshaft removal
Post by Snoopy on Jan 31^st, 2005, 9:56am

the hub nut is just taken off with a normal socket 32mm if I remember but its very tight at 200 ft lb... and remember to refit with STRONG thread lock compound as they are not left and right handed....

but other than that Scorpio man has given you the info.....it ALL there....

Title: Re: driveshaft removal
Post by low_tom on Jan 31^st, 2005, 11:05am

thanks guys,guess it's time to swing out the breaker bar! Any tips on stopping the shaft turning?

Title: Re: driveshaft removal
Post by Snoopy on Jan 31^st, 2005, 3:46pm

to loosen the hub nut put the car in gear or in park... if auto handbrake on and then loosen it then jack up the car and remove after usual precautions... that what I do ......

Title: Re: driveshaft removal
Post by low_tom on Jan 31^st, 2005, 5:56pm

hmm,i thought that'd be the case only prob is the wheels are all off..may have to source an air wrench

Title: Re: driveshaft removal
Post by Snoopy on Feb 1^st, 2005, 8:32am

Get some thing to rest between the studs and the ground and then undo the nut a long tie bar will surfice .. just to stop the shaft rotating something like this http://www.bigesmalls.freeserve.co.uk/Doc1.doc
thats how I do it if I have to....

Title: Re: driveshaft removal
Post by low_tom on Feb 1^st, 2005, 1:26pm

yep got ya. had to do the same on my buick but wasn't thinking out the box. ta. bet everyone thinks i'm a retard now ;)

Title: Re: driveshaft removal
Post by Eddie on Feb 1^st, 2005, 9:19pm

If you just want to remove the drive shaft then there is no need to remove the bearing/hub assembly!!!.

Disconnect the drive shaft from the back of the hub,its held on via a flange and 6 torx bolts,leave the bearing intact in the hub.

The whole lot minus drive shaft, can be left in the trailing arm when it is removed.

eddie

Title: Re: driveshaft removal
Post by low_tom on Feb 3^rd, 2005, 10:22am

thanks eddie but i've got to strip the whole lot down as i'm blasting and painting it all.