jamied
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Registered: 27th Oct 03
Location: Marbella,Spain Drives: C63
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hey, me n mates cant get the whole front hub, like the brake disc/caliper basically all of it, we av undone all the obvious bolts, just cant get the ball joint 1s off tht goto the engine, please help!!!!
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mike_1.2LS96
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Registered: 23rd Oct 03
Location: Darlington | Mazda 323 1.8 Exec
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I think you mean lower suspension arm balljoint. You need to take three bolts out in total - two on arm and one in hub. Use a fork shaped balljoint splitter and big hammer. You can get this splitter from machine mart, for about £9. The halfrods ones aren't much good but might work - although about £20. You shove the fork in under the hub and whack it to seperate them.
They tend to seize up, so its hard work.
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sfxer
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Registered: 23rd Aug 00
Location: devon, england
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just use a big metal pole,
put it inbetween the lower arm and hub and use the extra leverage to split the bj, they are pretty tough but should come apart fairly easily.
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Gambit
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Registered: 5th Jun 00
Location: Common Sense HQ
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if you need to remove the hub nut then you'll need a very long breaker bar - then stick a scaffolding pole (or similar) on the end of that and stand on it - you need as big a leverage force as possible
hub nuts are tight as fuk
what is it your trying to do anyhow?
[Edited on 28-06-2004 by Gambit]
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