Holy **** that thing is clean.

 

We have four seasons thank you very much. Hotspring, Moist Hell, Firefall, and Simmerwinter

 

Hub is literally welded to the spindle. Forgot how rusty **** gets up here.

Round 2 tomorrow. Ran out of energy for the night.

 

Just got off work, but this morning I cleaned my wheels and a few spots on my paint with Mcguries ultimate wheel cleaner, damn semi metallics.

 

I used a slide hammer to get out my Cobalt hub. Did the same when I did my Tahoe too. Sacrifice 3 lug nuts, but it takes 5 minutes when you have a helper hold the slide hammer perpendicular to the hub.

 

I used the hub nut and a hammer. A few solid hits and they separated.

 

Washed the cobalt minion today, then it rained

 

I got it. Heat + smashing it with a metal hammer loosened it. Plus letting it sit coated in oil overnight im sure helped.

 

I'm not real familiar with it but I am sure at some point I will need to replace my hub/bearing. I thought the hub stayed in the bearing. Iirc the bearing I bought has a new hub already installed. Why do you need to separate them?

 

The whole bearing assembly usually needs to be changed, and in order to change it, you need to remove the axel from the assembly. Once you get the rotor off, you'll see it clearly. Just be careful with the ABS cable when changing these, as you need to feed it through the knuckle but under the axel for the hub

 

Mine was in such bad shape the bearing fell out of the hub when I removed it. Completely rusted out.

 

sold it

 

What are you replacing it with?!

 

i got a 2019 Toyota corolla SE

 

well at least it will still be in the road

 

Put about 100 laps around road Atlanta over the last two days!

 

looks a lot like mine!

 

I wish that front valance wasn't $400+paint costs.

 

I wish I had those 18" '07 SS/SC rims.....

I would straight up trade or sell mine to get them.... *sigh*….what do these cars do to us.....

 

I like the TC wheels better, but I have seen many junkyards having those SC rims. With some elbow grease you could get them to really shine (or stand out).

 

Found out why the car wouldn't move. Axle was out of the carrier. Aka wheel would turn but the axle wouldn't. I replaced the boot on this a while back, looks like it finally failed when I pulled on it.

Fortunately I had a spare ZZP stage 1 axle sitting on my shelf. Gonna toss that in this weekend and she'll be back in business again.

 

Nice!

 

Sorry to hear that. Did you get the motor replaced? Wish the previous owner could have gotten it back. Hope the Toyota doesn't bore you.

 

nah new owner is going to be replacing the motor. yeah i would have wanted 07metallic to get it back for sure. The toyota is cool but it has the least HP out of every vehicle ive owned to date. including my first car which was an 88

 

Installed new rear springs

Old and new
Installed
And currently working on intermediate steering shaft, and control arms