Hmm I believe you guys but how hard and how expensive is it to find them?
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garage sales, estate sales, antique rummage shops, pawn shops.... they're out there haha. I mean its not like they're going to do the job so much any differently than, say, the kobalt wrenches i bought at lowes, but there's definately a difference in build quality and badass-ness. It's all a preference.
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Just finished reading the first page, might already be wrong but that it's not 'easy' to get out type of bolt and it does not mean that the guy over stressed it.
I sheared bolts like this after shop forgot to tighten then and wheel forcefully removed the head as it almost broke loose. Also it could be an attempt at removal of a wheel lock with stripped head.
If it's latter that metal is going to give you hard time; the best thing I found is BOSCH hammer drill. Tap it them let the beast break the shit out of that bolt.
You might try welding since the wheel is off but you going to have to weld it to handle good amount of PSI. Another option is to dremel it deep in - pattern (cutting the hub in process) and getting it out that way. That thread will still be usable but not 100%.
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You have to get that race off. Best way is to cut a thin slice with a small cutoff disc, about halfway through staying away from the stub axle. Then hit it with a good steep chisel and a good whack from a hammer and it should split the race the rest of the way through and then it will slide right off.
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if the bearing was bad you definitely want the old race off. basically both the balls inside the hub and the thing stuck onto your spindle are wear items - if you put a new bearing on the old, stuck on race in lieu of the new race, and the old race was irregularly worn, the new balls in the bearing would fail prematurely and you'd need to do the job all over again
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Originally posted by jalopi View Postnew hubs/bearings come with new races, though that'd make for an interesting conversation at the parts store
Yea at first I didn't know the race was a small piece, I was like why do they want me to remove that whole thing? Then I watched a video and it's a small circle and I was like oooooooh!
And it's important to remove because if I put the new one on it would hit the old race and basically be a spacer that maybe wouldn't even allow for the axle nut to be threaded. I would have been like yea shit something is wrong bahaBMW tech
Umass Amherst
05 wrx sti
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