jimlab

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Anyone done this? Just curious how difficult it was to do. I'm considering having my front knuckles powder coated and replacing the wheel bearings afterward, but wanted to know how involved/difficult it was before I decided not to just touch them up with some POR-15 instead.

DamonB

The front spindle and wheel bearing is all one piece. Remove the spindle nut and the whole thing comes off. It's a piece of cake.

7racer

it's held on by the hub nut bolt with tab from the nut and tightened to around 175ft/lbs.......yes my knuckles are still killing me trying to get that damn thing off.

jimlab

Just knock off the dust cap, remove the wheel nut and slide the hub off the spindle?

So as far as replacement parts, do you need a new hub and dust cap per side, or do the new hubs come with the dust covers? They're already pre-packed with grease as well, aren't they?

jimlab

That's what air tools are for.

7racer

damian has a nice write up....

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...hlight=hub+nut

where can you get the dust covers?

7racer

I know....breakin down to get some......

BATMAN

I do a search for powder coating and come across this.

DamonB

It's a sad state of affairs for "mechanics" on this site when we need a write up to explain how to remove one nut

adax

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Hub nut is 1 and 3/8" (35 mm but I could never find a metric socket)

DamonB

I bought my 35mm at AutoZone where it was called an "axle nut" socket. A 1 3/8" socket is perfect too though; it's only a .002 difference between that and 35mm.