Rear Wheel Bearing Replacement
 

This is underway, It's easier than I thought.

OK I was wrong, I am not able to get the Axle nut off. I have hit it with the impact with no luck I have taken a 24" breaker bar with no luck. I have blowtorched and lubed it up with wd40 then jumped up and down on the breaker bar with no luck. If 200lbs of me jumping on the bar does nothing then what can I do. Other then just keep taping away on all sides of the nut and lubing it heating it and trying to break it again.

If this does not work guess I'll have to try to cut it off without damaging the spindle.

Anyone?

Victory at last!
If you have a stuck axle nut you can try all the things listed above and also to help hold the axle in place while trying to take the nut off you can pop the center cap out of your stock rim, put the rim, with inflated tire, back on, lower the car, then put your 35mm axle socket back on through the hole in your rim where the center cap was and then carefull jump up and down on your breaker bar untill it gives way. It took 4 bounces for mine to finally break free! :)

More to follow, stay tuned.

Well the passenger side rear axle is finally off. I beat the living mess out of the axle and it will need a bit of grinding to allow me to put the new axle nut on.
Removing this brings back a memory of when I had new tires put on at Firestone in Inverness, AL on HWY 280 about 6 years ago. Well they broke a wheel stud on this axle and they replaced it with another. Knowing what I know now they had to remove the axle to replace the stud. The next day I drove down to Flordia where my rearend, I thought, started makeing noise. When I got back I replaced the rearend and transmission with a new one, as 2nd and 5th were hard to shift into. Then I drove the car a few miles and back to the shop where it sat it idle for a few mins untill it just cut off. Well that was the last time my motor ran for the next 2.5 years. It had a bad oil injector and it scored up my rotors and I lost compression.

OK back to the Axle.
Question: when you remove the spindle what are the chances of the original bearings going back into the spindle and still working properly?

I have been driving this way to long with this roaring noise and now it is time to silence it.

They are designed to be replaced once removed. If you try to reuse them you will be doing it all again in a day. Real pain in the ass if you break a wheel stud.

Dan

Those bastards at Firestone, If only I knew then. I would have paid for new bearings. they just put the old one back in and within the next few days it was roaring like a train.

After closer observation I now belive that Firestone did not remove the axle, so my bearings going out was less likely to be because of them.

When Firestone installed the wheel stud, instead of removing the axle and separating the spindle and installing a new bearing they cut my heat sheild and then cut the head of the stud in half, plus chiseled away, to make room for the stud to be installed.

See attached photos:

Wow, what a crap job.

Dan

Victory at last. I forgot what i is like to drive a car without hearing loud bearing noises.
It's like I am driving a totally different car. :) I bet My mpg might even go up also.

Wow. Your account of the axle nut reminds me of my first encounter with the Flywheel nut.
Just curious...how big was your impact?