ttAmerica RoadsterAWD

Well guys, nearing the end. I pulled a bonehead and preloaded the passenger side front spring by turning the spring perch instead of the strut body. Needless to say, made for interesting driving despite having good numbers on the alignment sheet! If any of you ever need some pointers on a similar project and this thread is not helping, shoot me a PM .

Jaime

RSAErick

I thought that I'd put my question into this thread, since installing the existing 964 wheel hub to the 993RS wheel carrier (Evo upright) is involved with this upgrade...

So, can anyone provide some guidance on how to remove the front wheel hub from the wheel carrier?

I believe that this requires removing the 32mm nut. I also believe that it is tightened on at an extremely high torque value. This may have been easier with the wheel carrier still attached to the control arm and strut; however, I've already removed the wheel carrier assembly. I hope that I don't need to re-attach everything back to the car to get the nut off!

Here's what it looks like:




Thanks in advance for the guidance!

Kuchar

Pipe (20 cm) and hammer! It is my way. And it works perfect.

Kuchar

Put it back or use vice, and very longin pipe 1 meter or longer.

RSAErick

Brute force... love it! Ok, I'll stop trying to out-smart and finesse it. Sorry, I'm embarrassed.

Now.... how to torque the thing back on?

ThomasC2

Can't you torque it when it's back on the car?

Thomas

ghhally

That's how I do it.

RSAErick

The problem that I have is that my wimpy torque wrench only goes to 150 ft-lbs. If I'm understanding correctly, the 32 mm nut that holds the hub to the 993RS wheel carrier may be 340 (or more) ft-lbs. It might be time for a new torque wrench

ThomasC2

Aha, but can't you borrow a wrench from a garage you know. You can even torque it as much as you can and then drive the car to a garage and do the final torque there if they don't want you to bring the wrench home.

Thomas

RSAErick

Good idea, and I'll look into it. Unfortunatetly, there is some disassembly required to get to the nut, so it wouldn't be as easy as performing the torquing in the parking lot of the shop.

Thanks.

ttAmerica RoadsterAWD

Hmmm. Just saw this. Best way to remove this nut is with an impact gun. Since you already have the assembly out, take them to a nearest auto shop. Bet they'll do it for free.

To torque to specs, tighten them down as much as you can and drive car (carefully) to nearest Porsche Dealer and have em tighten to specs. Bet it will be minimum cost to do this too.

perelet

Erick, impact for nut. Brute force to get hub out of bearing. I do have press, but was not able to fix wheel carrier in stable position.

I used heavy duty bolt (smaller diameter than hole in hub) + washers and hammer to get it out:







Press is just fine to do bearing:





Oleg.