Hub carrier removal (STUCK)

[Stanley5757]

So I’m removing my 4 stud hub carrier and replacing it 5 stud I’ve taken everything of but it’s still won’t come out from the axel and Lower arm bolt from some reason it seize on there any suggestions r32 skyline (I’ve removed both castle nuts as well both split pins)

Edited August 9, 2019 by Stanley5757

[Duncan]

so, 2 problems:

1. bolt where the lower control arm joins the hub is seized?

2. you can't remove the driveshaft from the hub, even though you've removed the nut etc?

For 1 the answer is pretty much you need a longer lever. Either a bigger breaker bar, a pair of spanners hooked on each other for extra leverage or even something like a jack handle or long piece of pipe over the breaker bar. Make sure everything is really stable on jack stands first.  Also, a bit of heat where the nut meets the bolt eg a blow torch can really help, also sometimes putting a socket on the nut, and then giving it a couple of good whacks with a heavy hammer can unstick it.  Basically, with enough leverage either the nut will come undone or the bolt will break, either way it is off.  If you can't get there for some reason, cut the bolt with an angle grinder.

For 2, you need to put the nut back on about 80% so that it is just above level with the end of the dravishaft, then hit it with a heavy hammer until it starts moving. If you hit it without a nut on and it is a bit tight (sounds like it is), you are likely to wreck the threads on the end of the driveshaft which would require repair before you can use it again.  Once it is freed up you obviously need to remove the nut to slide the driveshaft out full.

Depending where you are up to in the job, you may also have trouble ahead with removing the steering/hicas arm ball joint. The best thing for these, assuming you need to reuse the ball joint, is the scissor type, not fork type of ball joint separator

[Stanley5757]

Nah this is the front hubs and it’s a rwd  see in the photo we’re the lower control arm and the axle ball joint is I can’t remove it won’t so ever ? No hicas either

[Ben C34]

How are you trying to remove it? They don't just pop apart when you undo the nut if that is what you are expecting to happen.

[Duncan]

pic helps! they are both ball joints and practically speaking you need a ball joint separator to deal with it like I mentioned at the end of my earlier post

[GTSBoy]

Hammers fix this.

Literally.

Don't hit the end of the thread.

[Ben C34]

Agreed. I don't use ball joint seperator I beat it off. Then I get to work on the car.

 

 

Surely there are videos on how to seperate ball joints around, try and find them

[admS15]

Yep hammer the cast iron bit around the hole the threaded bolt goes through. YouTube is your friend for a demo.

[Rusty Nuts]

Did this same job yesterday, after breaking my favourite "pickle fork" I soaked it with WD40 went away for a couple hours then used a large puller popped off straightaway

[KiwiRS4T]

To summarize: get a bigger hammer

Soak in CRC

Use a separator or bar if you can get purchase to apply effort that would pull the joint out and at the same time hit really hard the piece that it goes through 

Google how to separate ball joints for video instruction