Wheel stuck on hub?

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Easty-5

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 Aberdeen
My rear drivers side wheel is well and truly welded to the hub. It will not budge at all. Tried a hammer, kicking it, wrestling it - everything! I left the bolts a few turns loose and dropped the car back down and rocked the car. It loosened the passenger side but not the drivers. So applied liberal amounts of WD40 but still no joy.

Does anyone have any smart ideas how to get the bugger off?
 
Same happened to mine. Tried everything. Decided to drop it ever so slowly without bolts. Worked a treat.

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Leave the bolts slightly loose and jack up the opposite (passenger) side - slowly - as soon as the driver's side wheel comes free, lower the px side
 
I would not remove the bolts! You could end up with some serious damage/injury. Undo them a few turns and the drive the car slowly backwards and forwards, left and right. That should do the trick.
 
Thanks folks. There's no way I'm doing anything with the bolts removed completely. I have a few ideas to try tomorrow so hopefully I can get it off. Keep the ideas coming though, they are most useful.
 
The following method always works for me. Jack up the car on the affected side and remove the wheel bolts then slowly let the car descend whilst still supported by the jack until the car is standing on all 4 wheels but the jack still takes the weight if the wheel comes loose. If this doesn't work the first time, then raise the car again and rotate the wheel and then lower the car again so that the wheel is loaded on a different side at the hub. Keep repeating and the wheel will eventually come loose. :thumbsup:
 
Do not use heat FFS ...ever saw one blow out if your heads near it will be messy .. If we get a wheel as badly stuck use a portapower , anchor of the body and just jack it of the rim off in 2 ticks no mess :p you won't have one it will cost £20 to hire so maybe just go down your nearest tyre center and let them do it . Or put it on axel stands get the wife to hold a decent block of wood behind the wheel and use the sledge ,keep spraying your penetrating oil in through the stud holes . Clean the hub down and paint with copper grease on wheel replacement .
 
srhutch said:
I would not remove the bolts! You could end up with some serious damage/injury. Undo them a few turns and the drive the car slowly backwards and forwards, left and right. That should do the trick.
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I had to this over the weekend when painting the calipers. I thought I'd been defeated but it eventually came loose.

Andrew.
 
i used a crow bar - it has a 90% angle that has a sharp edge - couple of taps with a hammer and free - all 4 were stuck
 
I've always managed to release stuck alloys by jacking the car up on to axle stands and braying the rim from the inside with a rubber mallet whilst rotating the wheel. It may take a while but at least you can hear when it starts to release ;)
 
Nelly Welly said:
lotus791 said:
Do not use heat FFS ...ever saw one blow out if your heads near it will be messy .. If we get a wheel as badly stuck use a portapower , anchor of the body and just jack it of the rim off in 2 ticks no mess :p .
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My indication if the use of heat was as suggested a gentle application of a heat gun, not oxy acetylene or any other extreme source, the differential expansion is used extensively to remove metallic components on interference fit.

I don't understand how you would ever get to a "blow out" using sensible application of a heat gun. The wheel would never get anywhere near as hot as it will during a harsh level of braking use in normal driving conditions.

Please if you are going to criticise others suggestions understand the reality and physics of the suggestion as it makes me for one irritated and not willing to share solutions.

And just on a side note, jacking off the body using a porta power is more likely to damage tracking,bearings and suspension geometry than to readily succeed in removing anything that is mounted on a remote section and specifically on bearings that are not designed to take hydraulic pressure in that manner.



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lol here we go again , I do this for a living not just on a key board !
 
when putting wheel back on i would use copper slip. hopefully next time they will not have welded again
 
Slightly loosen the studs, roll forward and backwards (not quick), and brake hard. That should snap em loose which the momentum of the car, and is the safest option.
 
That I would add a conclusion to my thread.

I finally got the wheel off. I left 1 bolt in by a few threads, donned my biggest pair of rigger boots, lay on my back and kicked the living s**t out of the wheel. Rotate. Repeat. It eventually gave way. What a complete PITA it was!
 
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