24-02-2021, 11:40 PM
When I first had my RP saloon, I found that someone had so butchered the nearside front grease plug that it would not come out at all. I got the hub off by extracting the split pin using a pair of small fine nosed pliers to straighten the legs out and then used a suitable small nail with the point filed off as a punch to persuade the pin to come up tapping through the hole arranged at the bottom until enough of the head of the pin was poking through the top hole for me to grab it with a pair of side cutters. I used a box spanner to get the nut off, as all my sockets which would fit had too thick a wall to get in.
It was a dreadful fiddle, though and I much prefer separating the two halves of the hub on the car a la Zeto's suggestion.
It was a dreadful fiddle, though and I much prefer separating the two halves of the hub on the car a la Zeto's suggestion.