OSF hub nut?

[Rob_Willow]

Afternoon! I'm attempting to swap a broken drive shaft for a replacement. The big nut on the centre of The wheel.. Is this a reverse thread? It's V tight! Rob

 

[Cupman29]

Standard thread but is 280Nm so need an impact gun or large breaker bar and lots of elbow grease.

 

[Rob_Willow]

I have a large pipe bender over the socket wrench.. Which has now bent! There are 4 (wings) on the nut, do these need hammering up?

 

[Cupman29]

No just leave them as they are. They are to stop the nut working loose.

Sounds like you need an impact gun then.

 

[Tony Hunter]

Strong socket, strong breaker bar, and jump on it! That's what I have to do every time, they are tight. As said, 285n takes some undoing.

 

[DannyR]

The car is on the floor yes?

 

[Tony Hunter]

Does help, I assumed that, silly me.

 

[Rob_Willow]

All swapped and working fine. Swinging off a 2 metre lever did the trick

 

[Bluebeard]

I twisted a wishbone trying to get mine off.

 

[Adam G]

Sounds painful

 

[MrBlonde]

What size is the nut?.as im changing the Hub

 

[Kelv]

I can't recall if its 30 or 32mm now.

 

[MrBlonde]

Yeah just found out its 30mm

 

[MartinR]

I twisted a wishbone trying to get mine off.

​Flol

 

[MrBlonde]

trying to undo my hub nut at the mo!.my sound stupid but to undo the nut do i have to knock out the 4 clips or whatever they are to undo it?.i have the car on the ground at the mo and just taken out the centre cap of the wheel.i have the socket & a breaker bar

 

[MrBlonde]

Its ok ive done it!..but is it the simple case when refitting just to tighten it up and thats it??..does it not have anything to stop it undoing?

 

[Tony Hunter]

285n hold it in.

 

[MrBlonde]

Oh cool mate cheers,so tightening it up to feck should hold it in place?

 

[Dan@SJM]

To 285nm yes.

 

[BIGASH]

280nm no? That's what I have down

 

[Fraser.J.]

I had 275 down lol

 

[Tony Hunter]

280-285 What's 5n??

​Fraser, it's def more than that.

 

[Fraser.J.]

After a search 280 seems right! Will be using that from now on!