Working on changing the axles on my 89 civic hatch. The nut on the end of the axle is cut and bent in?? Probably from factory.. Do I just pry out the folds and take off the big nut? Also why does my factory manual say I need 36 MM to take it off? That ended up too big and i think i need 32. Thanks.

 

Yeah bud it's a crimp to keep it from rotating/vibrating off. Those are on with some kinda force so have a breaker bar ready. My wimpy impact wouldn't do crap to that thing and I broke a ratchet before I got one off with a 3ft bar with pipe extension.

 

Yeah it is a dimpled nut just use a hammer and a punch and drive out the dimple. I can't remember exactly what the axle nut size is but 32mm sounds right.