cie_lab

Will be replacing wheel bearings soon. Most cars I've done this on have opposite-hand axle nuts. Is that the case here?

MAGK944

Fronts I assume, no axle nuts just clamps, lefty loosy.

harrisonrick

lefty loosey, righty tighty...isn't it?

jpk

The rear axle nuts are both lefty-loosey as well; they're just torqued beyond anything else you've ever dealt with (at least they were on the 968). I ended up paying a shop to break them free for me after breaking my biggest breaker bar (3/4" drive)
The arnworx wheel bearing tool makes it a breeze to press them out and back in. I also needed a slide hammer set from the local part store loan-a-tool.

FRporscheman

^+1. I asked a shop to break loose those nuts and they did it free. I also used a slidehammer to remove the hubs and the arnnworx tool for R&R. The nuts are regular thread, "righty tighty".

cie_lab

yep. rears. And that's what I suspected. Just wanted to be sure I didn't bust a nut trying to turn it the wrong way.

After you had the shop break it, I'm assuming you tightned it back down to something more human. Any concern the driver's side would back off?

jpk

My torque wrench goes to 250, the spec is something like 385. I went as high as I could with my wrench, then pretty much just guessed at how much of my weight to put on a 24" bar. I figgure I'm at somewhere between 400 - 450.

MAGK944

Isn't torque weight x distance. So a four foot bar with 96lb applied would give you 384lbft at the nut.

Legoland951

Thats what I use to estimate torque, my weight standing on a bar and measured distance from the end of the bar. BTW, you can look at the thread itself and determine whether its reverse thread or normal thread.

Scootin159

...when you can see the thread. Not always something you can do before you remove the nut (if no extra threads are visible).

MAGK944

That works. I used bathroom scales pushing the end of a four foot bar until the scales read 96lb.

cie_lab

...is what I'm sayin'

Van

I couldn't figure out if you're doing fronts or rears - but all four are standard right hand thread. The only left hand threads I know of on the whole car are the two belt tensioning turn-buckles.

I don't know about the old 944s and 924, but the 914 has a left handed nut on the front left axle.

harrisonrick

the front wheel lug nuts on a 67 Belevedere are righty loosey, lefty tighty...freaky man.

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