i guess you'll be in the group - "had difficulty".

did you get the SOB off yet ?
if not here's another idea. put the wheel back on and drive to a tire shop. have them break the sob loose with their big air gun. then grease it and put it back on, but not so tight. drive it home and take it back apart.

 

thats a very good idea and did cross my mind. but i was scared that if i did that, itd would e unsafe, since my bearing is toast an that axle nut is like the only thing holding onto it.

when i checked the bearing 2 days ago it had some play. now tody before i started i checked it and its like twice as loose. so its goin quick. i dont know if that would be safe.

hopefully my new 3/4 breaker bar, and 2 feet of pipe can get this **** off.

 

lol nice, man i just say keep beating the **** out of it usin the pipe and a sledge untill it breaks loose, just dont **** and get your knee or shin. or a fender

 

I had the same thing happen to my Dodge POS a couple of weeks ago.

Use a floor jack to push up the end of the ratchet; this will generate much more torque than you can...even if you use a cheater bar. I know this because I sat out there for two hours bouncing off the end of my 3/4" ratchet and three foot cheater bar. Be sure to use a lifetime waranted garbage ratchet (like a Crapsman...now proudly being made in China). My old school ratchet held up but was bowing quite a bit.

I reversed the procedure to torque the damn thing too.

 

If the bearing is completely shot and the nut is the only thing olding it on, you could have possibly jumped threades and the heat from the hub/bad bearing could have basicly welded the nut onto the hub. it happend with one of my 5th wheel trailers not too long ago, ended up just replacing the whole axle.

 

dont say that lol...


ill try the jackstand thing, that sounds like a good idea

 

For your sake i truely hope you can break through it lol

 

Passenger side is regular right hand threads...
counter clockwise loosens
from what I've heard only some years the drivers side is left hand thread.

and just a thought here you may want to go and buy yourself some sacrificial bolts and hit the hub bearing next week. Chances are this is gonna be rusted in place too.
and every night spray a bit more crc in the hub/ steering knuckle area.

If you don't get the hub nut off tonite I would do what dhvaughan suggested. Wish I thought of that back in October...

 

I concur about the bolts...if you cant find the bolts, you'll need a sacrificial socket to beat on the stock bolts...I used an impact socket and beat on each side for 1 1/2 hours before they finally broke loose. Be sure to anti-seize everthing before reassembling it...I'm sure something else will break or fall apart soon enough and you'll be glad you did when you have to dig back into it.

 

Find a piece of pipe 8 ft. long. You can get someone to hold the socket on the nut until you get a little pressure on it, then tell'em to get back or get hurt. Works every time.