If you notice, the new wheel hub came with a threaded hole built in. That way you can remove the hub without hammering out a lug. Cave man hammer not included...or needed.
By any chance, do you recall what size bolt fits through the wheel stud? I'm looking to do this on a very rusty one and want to try and get everything I need before doing the job.
Gotta thank you for the bolt & nut tip. After beating on the hub, touching & using an air chisel for over an hour. I found your video and it was off in 2 minutes. THANK YOU
Been a mechanic for a long time and didn't know about this trick. Thank you very much for your ingenuity! Spiderman scene was a great comic relief to my frustration of fighting with the hub for HOURS!👊🏽
This is the trick that worked for me...I don't subscribe to too many RU-vid sights but this saved me 2 days worth of headache. One RU-vid guy bought a 36 inch pipe wrench and a 12 pound sledge so I went that direction thinking with all of that length and 12 pound sledge would work just fine. 52 dollars later I broke the bottom teeth set of of the wrench and no movement. I used impact hammer to no avail and a mini bearing buster was no help. The only reason I used your method last was because my dust shield or backing plate covered the entire area and I did not want to damage it. After scouring the internet for an alternative to process I decided to go your direction. It put a hole in the backing plate but the hub came out on both rear 2009 CTS bearing in 10 minutes. I will just fill in the hole with some RTV and call it a day. I picked up the bolt and big nut as a spacer all were Number 8 grade. Number 2 grade nut stripped out in 5 minutes. THANK YOU SOO MUCH!!!!!! I won't be afraid of wheel bearing at all after this job and your help. THANKS AGAIN...I liked and subscribed...........
Thanks, I needed that. Didn't help get my stuck hub off, but after fighting mine for 3 hours I was past pissed, so looking for a way to get unstuck... went from livid to laughing out load at the spiderman cut scene. Put me back in a better frame of mind. I think I'll just finish tomorrow.....
Thank you for this video had a frozen wheel bearing and hub on my 2007 Sierra. Was hammering with a 5lb sledge for 30 mins and it laughed at me also. found this video and a quick run to get a bolt, a nut and some washers and it popped right off. Great video and great thinking.
Dude!! You are a lifesaver!! Thank God for RU-vid and people like you!! I wasn't sure what to do. All the videos I saw of my particular car, as soon as the bolts are removed the hub is literally falling off. Reality, its pressed in, needs to be pressed out! I am a pump mechanic so I am used to parts that don't wanna come apart. I knew I needed to make some kind of Jack Bolt set up, but couldn't grasp exactly what I needed to set up. Your video turned the light bulb on for me. One side came off with just Jack bolts, I used "All thread" the other side took more convincing. That one needed heat and hammer with chisel in combination with the jack bolts. But mission accomplished!!! Thank you!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!!
Ran across your video, tried your removal method after heating, beating and treating with deep creep for a few hours. I am sure it works in most cases, very ingenious. I own a 3 jaw puller, I don't see where there is a way to use it in this case. I have a slide hammer, not enough force there if I cannot get it with an 8lb hammer. I see there is a video called Hub Buster, didn't see that till I was writing this comment. In my case I sheared a grade 5 9/16" bolt. I did manage to bust the bearing out of its housing, so there I sat with no more lug nuts and no flange to beat on. Started hitting on the corners of the bearing housing, squaring those off. Finally took the assembly off the truck. I am fortunate to own a 20 ton press and have a neighbor that is a mechanic. Borrowed a socket from him and was able to press out the other half of the bearing. Popped with a cloud of rust. Be careful using the bolt method where there is lots of salt and snow. You could be stuck in the driveway with 3 wheels without a backup plan. Like a large torch or a press. The passenger side was way easier, good luck.
Thank you for the bolt and nut trick, I was aggravated trying to beat it off, referred to RU-vid, found your video, and the spider man scene made me feel so happy I wasnt alone, thanks for the comedy scene..
This is an awesome idea! I just removed the hub on my DGC using this. Not only does it apply mechanical physics but you can spin the hub and retighten the bolt to rock it back and forth and even up and down to help fracture that rust bond.
this method of removing hubs is amazing, i couldn’t find a bolt with threads that go all the way along the bolt so i used my old steering wheel puller, worked amazingly. thank you sir
AM GETTING READY TO DO THIS TYPE OF WORK ON MY 2012 SRX, BUT I GOT AN AIR GUN, NICE SOCKETS KIT, BREAKING BAR, AND TORQUE WRENCH GOING...READY TO MAKE IT WORK. NICE VIDEO, ESPECIALLY THE BONUS CLIPS...THAT'S WHAT I CALL INGENUITY...LOL
G'Day Thanks for posting your "how to" video. Most enlightening. That is the kind of task I leave to my mechanic shop. BUT, I was shocked to see how much rust and corrosion there was on your vehicle. I live in Western Australia where the climate is mild, no snow or frosts, so the underside of cars and other vehicles just get dirty, from road grime, plus perhaps a little mud. But I suppose you live in an area where salt is used on the roads in winter. I think if I saw that on one of my vehicles, I would freak out!!! If I had been doing the job you posted, I would have done far more power wire brushing before re-assembly, but that's just me. Anyway, thanks for posting - take care and stay safe
Ya ain't lived untill ya go four wheeling in 16 inches of snow. Indiana USA. Little snow and ice, lots of good ole rusted trucks. Big respect for you Aussies.
At 5:05 I was looking at how rusty that suspension was and he says "this should just come right off with some taps of a hammer". I busted up laughing even before it cut to that spiderman scene cause I really thought he was making a joke! Like ...dry humor you know.(like that doctor on that show Scrubs). Dude cracks me up.
I tried this technique earlier today. Instead of the hub coming loose, the it split apart (ball bearings exposed, etc). Still stuck with nothing to push on anymore. Time to grind it out. Gotta love Canadian winters!
Cool tip, a variation of this would be using your bolt method then snugging it up against something solid on the frame start the truck and turn the steering wheel you effectively have a hydrolic press
Thank you so much for the nut and bolt tip saved my ass after beating the shit out of it for a while found your video and had it off in minutes thanks again
Great video yes man thanks very much your video is definitely the way, and I loved the insert of movie skit with wheel hub just hilarious being it’s definitely the case with my Chevy Equinox’s wheel hub 😂😂😂😂😂 again thank you!!!!!
OMFG😂😂😂😂 wait until you get 5 minutes and 10 seconds into this b**** I had to pause a video I was laughing so hard I started crying and I damn near pissed myself! Thank you so much I needed that💯 every bolt has been froze I've actually broke off too and had to use an extractor set so thank you so much I really needed that! Although I wish you would have actually showing the application of how you did the bolt but I got the jest of the idea.
Man the road conditions do a number on the suspension on a vehicle up north, here in Texas I see picks that are 20-30 years old that look brand new on the underside. That thing looks so rusty looks like it could fall apart at any moment.
I wish mine would come out that easily, I've got three of those bolts in it trying to force it out and put a pipe wrench over the flange and beat it with a 10 lb sledge........ it's still in there
I literally just finished replacing my front right hub assembly on my 2004 GMC Sierra 1500 about 5 minutes ago. I had some movement in the bearing when you rocked up and down or side to side (could hear it knocking). Double confirmed by taking the wheel off and shaking directly up and down while grabbing the studs with your hand. Triple confirmed by a new and increasingly loud humming coming from the right front side. I replaced the hub assembly with a brand new SKF unit, all torqued to spec and I have now come to find I have received a bad bearing. Worse now than it was before lol
Easier trick- 1) Take top bolt out of hub. 2) Loosen the other 2 half way out leaving roughly 1/2" 3) Use the socket that was used to loosen the hub bolts along with an extension, hold them on the bolt.... 4) Have someone start vehicle and turn the steering left/right while holding socket & extension on bolt - let the end of the extension rest against something solid like control arm. 5) Work back and forth each side to pop the hub bearing out. Basically using your power steering to push the hub bearing off. Much easier approach and time saver. Been doing this for years without issue. One other thing, this obviously only works on the front hub bearings, not the rear.
What was the size of that Bolt you used to get the hub free? Very very good idea, best idea I have seen out there. Will be doing this job soon and want to get that bolt and nut ahead of time so if you could let me know that would be awesome. Thanks so much.
I like to use a hammer on my wrench and ratchet for added ooommfff!😂Great job using the 'ol noggin! Those hubs always seem to be stuck like chuck when I go to replace one. Hang on a second.... no catchy intro..... hmmmm.... that hub had your brain stuck too eh? 😂
I watched a RU-vid video on getting a hub off. Take a trash rotor and place it on the hub backwards with two or three lug nuts. Use a heavy sledge hammer and hit the outside of the rotor. One or two hits and off it comes. It is stuck to the face of the hub.
Extremerecluse Fallows not everyone is gonna have a trashed rotor laying around!! Just put stand or something and lower vehicle, or put wheel back on and lower vehicle!!
Just take off the rotor with the whole brake assembly. I do it all the time. Don’t need to take the brake caliper and. Racket apart u less you’re doing the brakes too
I'm pretty sure you probably broke that sensor as you were taking it out, judging by how rough you were on it trying to wiggle it loose. So my question is did you replace the hub because the bearing was bad or because of the sensor? Cause your info says you did it because your sensor was bad?
I replaced the hub because of the broken sensor stuck in it. I probably could have tried to remove the plastic piece down in the hub, but the thought of plastic pieces falling into the hub (as would have likely broken it trying to remove it), wasn't a risk I (or the owner) were willing to take.
Hey I had the plastic pin get stuck in the upper control arm as well but if you get a screwdriver or a small enough punch it falls out the bottom, great video though
@@TheDaninator i cant take credit for it though lol, i watched my friend do his abs sensor and i took on the job later lol. but i loved the spider man shot, lol
something else that can work is ...take a cold chisel and put it in the seem of where the knuckle and the bearing meet. use it as a wedge and work around the bearing . it's slow but it works.
you can remove it by using a screw has a smaller diameter of that broken plastic piece to screw it in then pull the whole thing out. It is very easy and fast!
Would it not have been possible to just take the two 18mm bolts out and left the caliper attached to the bracket and removed the caliper and bracket as 1? Just seems like you could have saved a step. Ps, the spider man bit was hilarious! 🤣
Omg ive been at this for 2 days now because first the lat bolt holding the hub on was siezed and would not come off right away and now the whole hub itself will not come off any tips to get the seized bearing housing off??
I am stuck trying to remove the top bolt. There is no room for a ratchet wrench. The boot to the upper sway bar is in the way as well as the bolt go the control arm. I now have a wrench wedged in there with no way to remove it. I know I am missing so something. Watched too many videos and all show significantly more space in there to get a socket on good. Help!
Use a Timken wheel bearing next time and it will last for you. It won't be cheap Chinese steel assembled in Mexico. Timken bearings will last and are quality made in the USA.
