DIY: Rear Wheel Hub Assembly
 

DIY: Rear Wheel Hub Assembly

Tools needed:
1. 12mm wrench or Rachet or socket (for calipers)
2. 14mm Wrench or Rachet or Socket( for calipers)
3. Hammer
4. 32mm (to remove spindle nut)
5. Electric Impact Gun (Love this Gun)
6. Philips screw driver
7. Flat Head screw driver
7. New Wheel Hub Assembly

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1. Jack up your car

2. Take off your wheel, i used a impact gun,disregard the spindle nut ,thats coming up
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3.Let take off this cover off with a flat head screwdriver ,bang it out with a hammer and pryed it off
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4. You see your 32mm spindle nut .Now find your dented nut and pryed it up so you can unscrew this
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5. You cant take off that nut, other wise it will spin, so Put your wheel back on, 3 lug screw is okay. Drop your car down. Now lets take off that nut, grab your 32mm socket wrench or your impact gun, and reverse it. now jack up the car off the ground
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6. Take off your calipers ,either way you can take off the break padd bracket or the full calipers. with your 12mm and your 14mm nutz screws. dont let it hang i let it sit on a tool box
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7.On your rotor tap the + with a hammer so your can unscrew that screw, now your rotor is free and you see your wheel hub assembly
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8. take off your spindle nut, i think your already did it, but it should just come out freely by itself
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9.my garbage mess up threads screws
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10. Grab your new wheel hub assembly, slide that in and grab your 32mm socket and tap it in with a hammer or wood block
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Comparasion
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------Now just reverse

Good post!

~Cheers~

Great job!

How good is your electric impact wrench? Comparable to the pneumatics?

i say same, but i never try the air impact..i always wanted one a long time ago.. but now that i got one , i love it.

Great job!

thanks, you can still reused the hub if your screws are fucked..you can buy the screw somewhere, didn know that, haha o well it was a great experience

Holy thread revival...but before I get flamed for staring a thread without searching, i found this. Perfect...needed to know how many MM the rear spindle nut was. 32MM it is! :) Thanks for this thread, it's great!

Two screws
 

Mine has two screws holding the hub assembly in and i can't get the rotor off. they are completely rusted. what am i suppose to do?

use an impact search...it'll loosen it right up.

what if the head is stripped?

grind it down with a grinder or dremel. and use a flat head

use dw40 or db blaster loosen it up

get an Philips head or flat head, tap it with hammer and the rust should move around and then try to screw it off. once you got that off don't need to put it back on with the new

get a small drill bit and drill that sucker

Nice...:) i thougjt my wheel hub was out but. Noo i hit something on the road and hit my metal thing in tje calibers sp it started to make a nose lol jist had to bend it back and it was all good lol

You hit something in such a way as to bend the backing plate? Luckily it didn't damage anythine else. Somewhere up in this old thread about such a basic repair that's really rather easy if you have the skills and the right tools, someone said that an electric impact is the same as an air impact.:rolleyes: I disagree. My Craftsman electric does like 150 ft. lbs., good for removing tires, and other fairly low torque jobs (like rear hubs). My air impact does 700 ft. lbs. I'd like to see you remove the front axle nuts with an electric impact wrench....ain't going to happen! That and using the proper tools prevents things like stripped screws.......

earthquake dual hammer 650 ft/lb pneumatic checking in here...
and 120 ft/lb makita lith ion for the baby jobs. I use this one a lot more often.

Noo its wasnt thr backin plate lol it was the wear indacater for tje pads.... I still took of my calipers and cheack my pads and tjere still alot of pad left on them lol... Ive used and electric impact wrks every time.... :) even on the axles lol

Great pics, thanks for putting it up!

I looked at this post today because I had a stripped lug nut on my right rear wheel and couldn’t get it off nor could I fit an extractor between the nut and wheel. So I ground the metal cap off and loosened the spindle nut and took my wheel/rotor/hub off all together and drilled out the stud from the back. Thank you!!!’ So relieved to get that off.