Man am I having a heck of a time getting off the 36mm nut

[matthew1]

I'll find out if the LF is good in the morning.

By the way, I didn't just finish. I finished at 7pm MST and called it a day. Here's the pics:

Original vs. Femi

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The main players in this saga.

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Everything.

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Old axle.

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Transmission seal and inner workings.

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[Pauloil]

Is this what you were having difficulty with?



You really need to get air. An air hammer with a pointy attachment would've made short work of that. Just rubbing it in .

THIS Picture happens to show cracked rubber brake line, and that is where I was told they break and leak

[obayha]

So this project was to change out the hub bearing???
Is this a maintenance thing or was something wrong?
I know I ask a lot of question, but I have an axle swap coming up and want to know if I need to plan on doing the hub at the same time..
Thanks for any input.
Shane

[matthew1]

Obayha, the hub was going bad. Whump whump whump as I turned right, meaning my left hub, or one of them, was going. At 250k+ miles you might want to do preventative hub replacement, but they're not in the preventative maintenance price league at $100-ish times four.

My mistake was to ruin the axle by hammering it too hard with too hard a sledge. Perhaps they make 40lb. rubber hammers and this wouldn't have happened if I'd used one.

Without my mistake, things might have gone just fine, and much faster. I would have done the control arm and axle in a few weeks, after increasing my toolset properly, for the jobs.

I took her for a test drive just now, everything's fine.

[Xilikon]

Is this what you were having difficulty with?



You really need to get air. An air hammer with a pointy attachment would've made short work of that. Just rubbing it in .

THIS Picture happens to show cracked rubber brake line, and that is where I was told they break and leak

Yeah, change those hoses !! I did on mine and some parts are a pita to work with the rust (East Canada winters and road salts !!).

[obayha]

Thanks for the wheel hub info. I will hold off until I hear the Whump,Whump, Whump.I need to fund my axle change first. I'll miss the 50-70 mph vibration when it's gone . You get use to stuff being there and when you fix it.. it's like.. now what?
Shane

[jblackburn]

I'll miss the 50-70 mph vibration when it's gone . You get use to stuff being there and when you fix it.. it's like.. now what?

Then something else goes wrong. Such is your life owning a Volvo.

After we changed the sway bar links on my car a few weekends ago, I think the right one's loose again. I tried futzing with it last night, and didn't touch the left wheel AT ALL, and now it's making some odd noise from that side. It did drive AWESOMELY for about 2 weeks though before I think the bolts loosened up again

[Choguy03]

After we changed the sway bar links on my car a few weekends ago, I think the right one's loose again.

Same thing happened to me. I put some mild thread locker on it the second time around.

[obayha]

Off 36mm subject.. but did I read on here to tighten the strut nuts with an impact???
Maybe just to much reading during working hours .
I would like to say that my Trax/ABS lite has been off after the third try at fixing it.. But then it will be back on today or soon..
This site has been great at teaching me a lot about my Volvo.
Thanks
Shane

[wheelsup]

THIS Picture happens to show cracked rubber brake line, and that is where I was told they break and leak

Yeah, change those hoses !! I did on mine and some parts are a pita to work with the rust (East Canada winters and road salts !!).

That car is long gone, sold for scrap...