awilli6

Who knew they made a nut cracker. I thought my wife had that title. Just kidding.
I bought one. I'm glad you posted that. I had no idea how to remove that nut. I'll try it later today and put everything back together. Hopefully it stops the noise from the rear wheel.

Bill Ball

If you have stripped threads, you'll need a new shaft and/or nut(s). You are not going to find those at the local hardware store. If the threads are not stripped, you don't need a nutcracker - you just need two wrenches as Wally described.

awilli6

Threads are stripped. The nut cracker worked. I'm ordering a new shaft

Bill Ball

I'd order the nuts as well. In order the strip those threads, somebody seriously abused those parts.

awilli6

I've taken the wheel, brakes and rotor off about 4 times in the last 2 weeks. Ordered the hub pin and put it in today. I still get the horrible grinding/rubbing noise when I hit brakes.

It must be the result of a missing circlip. I had the Indy press the old bearing out and the new one in. I know I didn't put a circlip back in. I guess they left it out. I'm going to take it to the shop.

awilli6

Watching wheeler dealer. Doing rear wheel bearing on an Audi. When I started watching, he was removing the circlip. I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue...