Rear hub nuts

[eSteve]

Originally Posted by twinturbo

Most don't.

Unless you have rear disk hubs, it's best to leave them alone.

TT

TT,

Leave them alone? I was planning on pressing out the bearings and replacing them, for which (I presume, correct me if I'm wrong) I'd need to remove the hub nuts.

If I wasn't going to replace the bearings, is it possible to remove them from the donor, clean them up sufficiently, fit them to the new hub carrier and fit them on to the roadster without removing the hub nuts?

However, if I can do all this without undoing them (tricky but do-able) and saving the hassale of doing them back-up (trickier, as pointed out), I might fore-go replacing the bearings.

Thing is I'm not to convinced the odeometer reading of ~75,000 mls for a twenty something year old car is correct. I suspect it is actually 175,000 mls! So I would like to replace all wheel bearings.