I was planning to replace my outer joint already but I found a gently used whole axle from xo buddy. I also needed to replace bearing and after pounding on the axle so long I gave up expecting to keep the hub.

When I was done the hub was almost the right size for e70 What a hoot. If you wanted to there is a way to upsize permanently vs. using rings !

Fortunately brother works in a machine shop so $80-90 savings turning down existing hub.

Of course my *priceless" tool to remove every shred of rust. I'm thinking of having brother turn that down to nice and flat so I can put in a press and intentionally mushroom the splines a couple 10 thou bigger to really clean the hub out. Right now ive been pinching some steel wool through but if the spline was just slightly bigger it would work by itself.

One of the main reasons I made this thread was after recalling about 3 cases of fused axle that at least one solution was have a mechanic pull out the "fire wrench" (oxy acetylene torch) and cut it out, I realized that somebody could copy what I did with hardware store parts.

A 3/4" grade 8 bolt (likely three biggest you can find in a local store) is designed to hold 30,000 pounds without any plastic deformation. That should be enough to do the job especially since you can hammer on the end which takes stress off the bolt.

Lots of people will have an old rotor laying around and in a pinch you can use them rotor you just removed from the car, I would just advise doing a little torque math and evenly tighten the long bolts.

It wasn't a "cheap fix" really since local acquisition of 5 70mm class 10.9 bolts and washers was about $30 but those are permanent tools now I put them in the bearing press kit.

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2011 E70 • N55 (me)
2012 E70 • N63 (wife)