Installing Front Roll Centre Spacers - Problem

[OLLIE_NZ]

Hi guys,

We're finally getting around to installing the Ikeya front roll centre spacers on the our R32 GTR but after removing the front lower control arm ball joint we're at the stage of needing to remove the studs that are pressed into the hub (see attached pictures if this doesn't make sense).

We need to remove these studs and use the Ikeya supplied hardware as the factory studs become too short with the added thickness of the spacers

Is there a way to remove these without taking the hub off the car and having to use a hydraulic press or similar?

We'd like to have the roll centre spacers on the car but don't know if we quite have the motivation to remove

the front hubs just to put these out.

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, I did a search but could only see info relating to removing the ball joints as opposed to the studs that hold the ball joint on.

Cheers chaps!

New hardware to be used

[Rapidflow]

Knock them out with a hammer. The stud is the same fitment as a hub wheel stud. Always pays to screw the old nut on gives u a bigger target. light heat also helps.

[GTSBoy]

Load 'em up with a forked/split G clamp and/or hit them with a f**k off big hammer?

[Duncan]

same, I screwed the nut back on and bashed them out. even safer than using the same method on a wheel stud because there is no bearing getting f**ked up at the same time.

What do you think about the ikeya adjusters? I wasn't convinced because they only move the lower arm point, not the upper arm point as well.

[OLLIE_NZ]

Cheers chaps, we dropped the ball joint out threaded the nut back on and dominated them with a trusty old claw hammer.

Had to get the angle grinder and cut off wheel into action and cut about 15mm of thread off the studs to clear the CVs out the way out.

Holy smokes has it messed with out alignment

Had some extreme toe in couldn't really move it up the driveway. Did some dodgy string line and steel rule adjusting though until we drop it in for an alignment.

Apart from the front toe what other settings would the roll centre adjusters have changed?

(Yes hardware is not tight yet)

[bigmikespec]

Did you measure roll centre from stock ride height first then compare to a lowered height? If you havent then adding a spacer of random length is just a stab in the dark and may not achieve anything.

[rickskylinebnr32gtrjp]

Ollie,

Why not just pull the CV spline straight out of the hub so as to move it out of the way? Nothing is holding it in place.

[89CAL]

I think after 3 years, he probably worked it out or gave up long ago