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| | | | Joined: Mar 2017 Posts: 8 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Mar 2017 Posts: 8 | OK, I'm stuck. Have a rear seal leaking fluid out the drum brake. Got the axle out. Next is a castle-ated large nut. Looks like it is threaded on?. Looks like I must bend out (in?)the tabs - then what? Do I have to find a J-2222 tool? Thanks much - assume I don't know what I'm doing. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,886 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,886 | There are actually two nuts, with a lock washer in between them. Bend the locking tab out of the slot with a small chisel or a narrow screwdriver, and use a hammer and a flat-tipped punch (not a chisel) and a hammer to back the nut off. Then remove the washer and remove the second nut the same way. On reinstallation, use the inner nut to set the preload on the wheel bearing while rotating the wheel and hub assembly. Don't overtighten it- - - -just take up the play in the bearings, then bend a lock tab into one of the slots on the inner nut to retain the bearing adjustment. Tighten the outer nut securely and bend another lock tab out to keep it from loosening.
Be aware that if those nuts back off the entire hub and axle assembly can part company with the vehicle- - - -I've recovered a few disabled big rigs and had to go searching down the side of the road for a missing hub, tire and axle assembly!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2017 Posts: 8 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Mar 2017 Posts: 8 | Great information - just what I hoped for. So the J-2222 tool is not needed, just the hammer and flat chisel will do, I guess. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2017 Posts: 8 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Mar 2017 Posts: 8 | One more question, though. Lock ring removal is counter-clockwise? | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,886 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,886 | Yes, the housing load tube thread is "lefty loosey- - -righty tighty!" Normal right hand thread.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 916 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 916 | Jerry's advice is spot-on. A flat-tipped punch worked well for getting my axle apart. It wasn't that tight, really.
~ Dave
1950 Chevrolet 3600 3/4-ton with 261 engine & T5 Transmission
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,886 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,886 | I have made axle nut spanner wrenches by welding pieces of square key stock onto an appropriate-diameter piece of water pipe, and drilling a hole in the pipe for a handle made of round stock. While you have the nut off, use a radiator hose clamp to hold the key stock into the nut slots and weld a pipe to them. You'll have a tool you can pass on to your grandchildren!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 86 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 86 | You can go down to a parts store and get a socket that will fit them axel nuts. If you want to replace those center tab lock washers any good autoparts store can get them. You should be able to get them nuts out with a good chisel or punch. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,886 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,886 | When I ran a diesel shop we made a lot of that kind of stuff- - - -nothing like forking over the profit margin to the tool truck man every month!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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