I'm replacing some of my wheel studs on the front left wheel.

I've come so far that I've taken off the 32mm spindle nut, so all I have left is to remove the hub. But how on earth do I do that?

I've tried to hit it, kick it and yell at even using bad words but it just won't come off. I thought it was supposed to slide right out after removing the 32mm nut??

Any help is appriciated.....

Edit:
I guess I'll need a slide hammer to get it out...?

When I get the hub out, I've read that there is a chance of seperating the wheel bearing. Does this mean I should buy a new wheel bearing before replacing any of the wheel studs?

 

?? https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=720159 ??

 

You mean it's not possible to remove/insert the hub from the wheel bearing without using a press?

 

You need to remove the spindle from the chassis - unbolt the shock fork and separate the 3 balljoints, remove abs hardware, and unbolt the spindle nut.

THen you need to have the hub pressed out, and have a new wheel bearing pressed in with the new studs. You *can* reuse the wheel bearing sometimes but I would absolutely not recommend doing this - they are cheap ($55 + $3 clip) so its not worth it, as there is no additional labor cost while its apart.

 

Actually it depends on how long your new wheel studs are. If they are stock length or just 10mm longer, you can replace them without disassembling the hub. You can just hammer the old studs out and slide the new ones in at an angle.

 

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No you can't. Tried that. But what I'm going to do is grind a bit off the top of the bolt. Just enough to make it slide out. Same for the bolt that's going in. Shouldn't be a problem.

 

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No you can't. Tried that. But what I'm going to do is grind a bit off the top of the bolt. Just enough to make it slide out. Same for the bolt that's going in. Shouldn't be a problem.
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I had 10mm longer studs installed without any grinding or disassembling of the hub.... FWIW.

 

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I had 10mm longer studs installed without any grinding or disassembling of the hub.... FWIW.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Then the US hub is different from the Euro hub, because it was no way I could get the studs out without taking the hub off.

Anyway I've changed the studs now by grinding them. I also had to shave a couple of mm of the hub to get them in. It's a bit getto, but worked like a charm .