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Let's hope those work.

 

I suppose I'm lucky living in SoCal...little or no rust.This might be a stretch but as a last resort what about cutting the bolt heads off with a die grinder just to get the hub off,then get a replacement at wrecking yard :lol: like I said,a stretch.

 

That was my first idea, problem is the bolts are set in slightly so i'd probably damage the knuckle doing that :lol: . I am not worried about damaging the hub since I have the new one already, and bolts I can just get anyway as well. Gotta see what I can scare up this week.

 

The rust is insane here, if you saw the underside of this truck you would be :dunno:

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Have a good welder weld you some nuts onto the exisiting bolt heads before you attempt to remove them. That or it's hub AND knuckle time.

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Have a good welder weld you some nuts onto the exisiting bolt heads before you attempt to remove them. That or it's hub AND knuckle time.

 

The sockets I hope to use look like this:

 

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They usually work pretty well... If I had to go with the whole knuckle that would hugely suck, because then I would need to replace the rotors as well.

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Have a good welder weld you some nuts onto the exisiting bolt heads before you attempt to remove them. That or it's hub AND knuckle time.

 

The sockets I hope to use look like this:

 

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They usually work pretty well... If I had to go with the whole knuckle that would hugely suck, because then I would need to replace the rotors as well.

 

 

I have a set of those sockets and while they work extremely well, I'm not so sure that they will get a bolt of this size and torque out. Haven't had to go that far in my set yet.

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I have a set of those sockets and while they work extremely well, I'm not so sure that they will get a bolt of this size and torque out. Haven't had to go that far in my set yet.

 

My friend has a set thats hardened (black) like air sockets. I'm gonna use those because I can say with certainty a regular one would probably shatter.

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I have a set of those sockets and while they work extremely well, I'm not so sure that they will get a bolt of this size and torque out. Haven't had to go that far in my set yet.

 

My friend has a set thats hardened (black) like air sockets. I'm gonna use those because I can say with certainty a regular one would probably shatter.

 

Again, same here and they work extremely well in the applications that I have used them in. Again, just nothing of that size have I had the grand splendor of dealing with yet. Pound the smallest one on that you can fit and use smooth, even pressure on the breaker bar while praying to the good lord and you just might get them. I wish you the best of luck. :lol:

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I have a set of those sockets and while they work extremely well, I'm not so sure that they will get a bolt of this size and torque out. Haven't had to go that far in my set yet.

 

My friend has a set thats hardened (black) like air sockets. I'm gonna use those because I can say with certainty a regular one would probably shatter.

 

Again, same here and they work extremely well in the applications that I have used them in. Again, just nothing of that size have I had the grand splendor of dealing with yet. Pound the smallest one on that you can fit and use smooth, even pressure on the breaker bar while praying to the good lord and you just might get them. I wish you the best of luck. :lol:

 

 

LOL thanks, I'm gonna need to pray all week just to make sure I have enough saved up for this one!

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Any progress? :lol:

 

Thanks for asking, none this weekend. Girlfriend dragged me out on Saturday, and we did some development work on the race car's new suspension Sunday. It works great, except we managed to blow the headgasket by the end of the test!

 

Possibly working on it this upcoming weekend, or definitely next.

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Small update, changed out the radiator this weekend, and also changed the oil which seems to have cured the oil pressure problem. Turns out the last time the oil had been changed was somewhere around Nov/Dec of 2010 and the truck was likely not driven much at all since then so we figrued maybe the oil broke down a bit. We put in 5 qts of 10w40 and a can of STP oil treatment to be safe and the pressure is dead on according to the book.

 

Still no pics yet sorry, but will be working on the hub/gas tank at the end of this week/beginning of next, will get some then.

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Rusty pics for your enjoyment... mint shock mount on there as well:

 

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Wow,that's some serious rust.I'd guess it would be next to impossible to get rid of it.Glad you got the oil pressure problem solved :thumbs:

 

 

Bad news on the oil pressure, it seems to be back. Next I'm gonna change the sender... after that if need be the oil pump.... after that... the engine :(

 

As for the rust, I'm gonna wire brush it all and rust treat the hell out of it. The truck definitely has quite a few working years left. However as you can see the rear passenger shock mount is SHOT. Got both side on order from Rockauto right now, will be installing Tuesday....

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