Be aware that one side is left hand and the other is right hand threads.
LM
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From: Editors, Molecular Vision <jboatri@emory.edu>
To: chuckc@ibm.net <chuckc@ibm.net>; spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
<spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Date: 18 June, 1998 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: Tires ... etc !
>At 1:08 PM -0500 6/18/98, Chuck Ciaffone wrote:
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>> Jeff,
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>> Thanks for the help!
>>
>> What size socket will I need to pull the hub?
>> It's a little bigger than the 46mm VW hum socket
>> I have lauying around.
>>
>> chuck
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>> chuck ciaffone chuckc@ibm.net
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>There is a big keyed washer that sits inboard of the big nut. It has one
>side folded flat against a flat of the big nut. This keeps the nut from
>spinning off. You need to carefully chisel the bent washer back off of the
>nut. The nut should then be pretty easy to unscrew. I used a pair of vise
>grips, but only because they were the only thing I had big enough to get
>around the nut, plus my nut was in bad shape and I was going to replace it
>anyway.
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>Again, you may not need to pull the hub. Try replacing the O-ring and paper
>gasket first.
>
>Jeff
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>Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD
>Senior Editor, Molecular Vision
>http://www.molvis.org/molvis
>Mailto:jboatri@emory.edu
>404-778-4113
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