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52mm hub nut tool
Range Rover Blues:
--- Quote from: martinwf5 on February 02, 2008, 21:28:07 ---hi sorry for some confusion here, but viewing my pdf manual under
54 front axle and final drive:
13: fit hub adjusting nut. Tighten to 61 nm
14: Back off adjusting nut 90dg .Tighten to 4nm this will give the required hub endfloat of 0.010mm
15: Fit a new lock washer.
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Manual for which car BTW?
freeagent:
I've never used a feeler gauge/ torque wrench to set up wheel bearings in the 7 years i've been running a landrover as my only car.
All i do is use the socket on a breaker bar to pull the inner nut up reasonably tight, to seat the bearings, spinning the hub back and forth a few times, the slacken off, remove breaker bar then re-tighten by had just until you feel a bit of resistance.
you can then whack the lock washer and outer nut on.
I'm sure a dozen people will be on here telling me this is the worst way to do it/ i will burn in hell, etc, but it works for me, and I'll continue to do it this way.
muddymart:
Discovery pdf manual, under front axle and final drive..
Range Rover Blues:
--- Quote from: freeagent on February 03, 2008, 10:24:22 ---I've never used a feeler gauge/ torque wrench to set up wheel bearings in the 7 years i've been running a landrover as my only car.
All i do is use the socket on a breaker bar to pull the inner nut up reasonably tight, to seat the bearings, spinning the hub back and forth a few times, the slacken off, remove breaker bar then re-tighten by had just until you feel a bit of resistance.
you can then whack the lock washer and outer nut on.
I'm sure a dozen people will be on here telling me this is the worst way to do it/ i will burn in hell, etc, but it works for me, and I'll continue to do it this way.
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That's quite a common technique TBH, it's what you'll find on stuff like Fords and Vauxhalls. Also you tend to find that Haynes manuals use that technique rather than the one in the dealer workshop manual. There's nowt wrong with it except that in doing so you force all the grease ut of the bearings.
Also, the tolerance for wheel bearings has changed a lot since 1970 when the RRC came out, due in part to better compnenets but also to the design of the later axles. The endfloat on an ABS axle hub needs to be less than the endfloat on the CV joint for example.
The spec's given in the maual for the RRC are based on endfloat measured with a DTI, of couorse we all have one of them kicking about :-k and as the endfloat is difficult to "feel" with a new oil seal I prefer to use feeler guages, they also tend to be closer to hand.
At the ned of the day, some endfloat is ok, none is a problem and if the bearings are running preloaded (torqued up) then make sure you carry a spair set ;)
BK:
just done mine last week (nacked wheel bearing) with a 52mm box spanner by feel,no probs whatsoever apart from the rain dripping down my neck "oh I long for a garage"
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