Need to change rear wheel bearing, but...

[ahlem]

If you have Harbor Freight, I'd get an air needler and buzz at it for a while to get anything loose out of there. An air chisel with a narrow chisel might be useful as well. Do you have a sand blaster? Oxyacetylene torches?

[c-bass]

Originally Posted by ahlem

If you have Harbor Freight, I'd get an air needler and buzz at it for a while to get anything loose out of there. An air chisel with a narrow chisel might be useful as well. Do you have a sand blaster? Oxyacetylene torches?

We don't have HF here but something similar called Princess Auto.

Personally I do have a small hand held sand blaster I was thinking on using.

A Dremel with a small wire brush to clean the threads up as much as possible was going to be my starting point and work my way up from there.

Unfortunately I don't have torches at my disposal but I will be using some MAPP gas to give some heat before attempting to remove the nut.

[audiophool]

Originally Posted by c-bass

We don't have HF here but something similar called Princess Auto.

Personally I do have a small hand held sand blaster I was thinking on using.

A Dremel with a small wire brush to clean the threads up as much as possible was going to be my starting point and work my way up from there.

Unfortunately I don't have torches at my disposal but I will be using some MAPP gas to give some heat before attempting to remove the nut.

Princess Auto apparently has the yellow bottles on sale right now. A coworker suggested that to get a bunch of heat on what's left of the nut. I'm likely going to angle-grinder through the hub lip and into the nut as a starting point. Then air chisel to split the nut. It's hard to see where the nut ends and the CV shaft begins - stay tuned.

[sandbagger]

I think your going to need to cut the whole hub and axle off from the back of the flange.... there is no room to get a grinder of any sort to get the nut off.
Once you do that you should be able to pound the axle out of the rest of it and then unbolt the bearing.

There is the reason I coat the area in antisieze, splines/nut/threads and lug nuts and rotor/hub face :P