Front Wheel Hub Replacement
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Here's a good link to the Jake Latham site. Once there click on each link (one for the front Bearing replacement, once for the rear bearing replacement.) It will prompt you to save the document in MS Word format.
http://www.jakelatham.com/c5/misc/
Paul
http://www.jakelatham.com/c5/misc/
Paul
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From: Sugar Land Texas
Thank you guys. The site should help. According to my manual, when removing the ball joint (one step listed prior to removing the wheel hub)is it neccessary to use the ball joint separator they list?
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no, if you do, it will tear the grease boot. use a heavy mald, and use controlled hits to the buckets that the ball joints rest in. on the fronts, you dont have to seperate both ball joints. you should get away with just the top. just make sure you can get to all three torx-head bolts. also, dont seperate the tie-rods at all...front or back. good luck.
im off all weekend. pm me if you have problems, ill give you my number. -jay
im off all weekend. pm me if you have problems, ill give you my number. -jay
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4/21/06.. driving to the track, the 1225 popped AGAIN, 3 weeks AFTER hub & harness replacements!
Now what? Ground the SS brake line? HELP/ADVICE?
Anyone STILL getting 1225 AFTER hub/harness replacement?
Now what? Ground the SS brake line? HELP/ADVICE?
Anyone STILL getting 1225 AFTER hub/harness replacement?
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From: Norfolk VA
Originally Posted by lt1rx798
no, if you do, it will tear the grease boot. use a heavy mald, and use controlled hits to the buckets that the ball joints rest in. on the fronts, you dont have to seperate both ball joints. you should get away with just the top. just make sure you can get to all three torx-head bolts. also, dont seperate the tie-rods at all...front or back. good luck.
im off all weekend. pm me if you have problems, ill give you my number. -jay
im off all weekend. pm me if you have problems, ill give you my number. -jay
actually, it has to be the bottom one for this. one of the screws is right behind the nut.
the 1st time I did this, the ball joints just popped out not big deal. This morning, I had to break out the BFH. Important lesson learned, use a block of wood or something to protect the ball joint
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1372073