Stigissimo's ZHP Touring

[slater]

Both sides, but the driver's side was the one making the noise.

This is the worst job I've ever done on a car.

it's not the worst i've done, by far, but it's far from the best. everything came apart nicely up until removing the axle shaft from the hub. then it went downhill quickly. how far in are you?

(PS - love the name of your impact gun... as if 'earthquake' wasn't enough... had to add the 'XT' bit - LOL!!)

[Stigissimo]

it's not the worst i've done, by far, but it's far from the best. everything came apart nicely up until removing the axle shaft from the hub. then it went downhill quickly. how far in are you?

(PS - love the name of your impact gun... as if 'earthquake' wasn't enough... had to add the 'XT' bit - LOL!!)

Lol - it's a Harbor Freight impact gun that being said it is very well reviewed and I love it. I used it to do the pulling/pressing with the press tool I sketchyrigged up from a 3-jaw puller bolt, a series of washers, a 4" PVC pipe, and pipe floor flanges.

I've got the driver's side bearing back in the hub, and need to do passenger side. Then it's just pressing the hubs back in (which required dremeling the old inner bearing race that was stuck on the hub) as well as the axles. I had to drop the exhaust and remove the sway bar as well. Then it's just reassembly.

[slater]

Lol - it's a Harbor Freight impact gun that being said it is very well reviewed and I love it. I used it to do the pulling/pressing with the press tool I sketchyrigged up from a 3-jaw puller bolt, a series of washers, a 4" PVC pipe, and pipe floor flanges.

I've got the driver's side bearing back in the hub, and need to do passenger side. Then it's just pressing the hubs back in (which required dremeling the old inner bearing race that was stuck on the hub) as well as the axles. I had to drop the exhaust and remove the sway bar as well. Then it's just reassembly.

ahh, so you dremeled it! i thought of that, at 2AM last night. but was determined to use the dumb bearing splitter.

i didn't remove the swaybar, just unbolted the upper end link brackets and rotated it down - that was enough for me to get the axle shaft out.

i'll be thinking of ya tonight when i'm doing the same.

[Stigissimo]

ahh, so you dremeled it! i thought of that, at 2AM last night. but was determined to use the dumb bearing splitter.

i didn't remove the swaybar, just unbolted the upper end link brackets and rotated it down - that was enough for me to get the axle shaft out.

i'll be thinking of ya tonight when i'm doing the same.

Yeah dremel was the way to go. I was just happy to throw the hubs in a vice and do a more precision job after spending hours on the ground hammering, pulling, and sweating.

I cut a nice slice into two sides of the race as close as I could to the hub, then with one solid strike with a screwdriver and hammer they split.

Like you, the bearing splitter I originally bought for the hub was too small. Had to return it to buy a bigger one. Used the lug nuts against the splitter to press the hub off; it was easy on one side but on the other side the hub was too tight to the knuckle for the thicker edges of the large bearing splitter. I ended up wedging something behind the splitter and pressing the hub out enough to actually get a purchase with the splitter on the knuckle.

I have an aftermarket beefy sway bar, which would not pivot downwards because it would run into the spare tire well. Wasn't too hard to take off anyway.


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[Hornung418]

Nuff said


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Woah! You need double walled impact sockets or you could get seriously hurt!

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[Stigissimo]

Woah! You need double walled impact sockets or you could get seriously hurt!

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I've got a good deep socket set but this bolt happened to be SAE and I was impatient



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[Hornung418]

I've got a good deep socket set but this bolt happened to be SAE and I was impatient



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Just lookin out!

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[Stigissimo]

So I was being a bit of a hoon and slaloming my car last night, and each change of direction I heard a big metallic clunk as if a loose weight were swinging around. It was very strange.

I get home and check the rear passenger side footwell (where I believed the noise to be coming from) and just chillen on the floor was this! Must have been lodged beneath the passenger seat during the m3 seat swap and came free during my aggressive hoonery. Not a bad find!

Thing weighs like 5 pounds... gonna try it out and see how I like it. If anybody wants dibs in the event I don't keep it (they don't call the zhp knob the "greatest shift knob ever" for no reason) let me know!






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[az3579]

I'd be interested in giving that knob a try. Giggity.

[Stigissimo]

I'd be interested in giving that knob a try. Giggity.

Hahahahahaha

That pun tho!


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