hubs

[cottontop66]

i have a 92 ranger 4x4, when i take the front wheels off, the hubs come off too. i have had the truck several years and if my memory serves me correctly they didn't do that when i first got it. is it just my bad memory or are they supposed to come off when i take the wheels off?

james

 

[Explorin94]

That is normal if the keepers aren't over the studs. I'm sure with the year that the tires have been off many times and the wheel bearings have either been replaced or repacked. Just make sure that the "O" ring is still in place on the hub when you put them back on.

 

[mwood1985]

http://www.therangerstation.com/Magazine/Dec 05/offroad.htm
that should help fix it man i had to spend a minute lookin for it but its there if you take a few hours to make the mods. problem solved til you want them off

 

[AllanD]

You don't need three screws to hold the hub to the rotor.

Remember that the screw is only serving to hold the hub in place while
changing the wheel/tire

99.999999% of the time the wheel, tire & lugnuts will do that job

three drilled holes in the cast iron rotor also means three stress concentrations that can serve as the source for propagating a radial crack in rotors that frankly are already prone to cracking through the hub

I used a single 1/4-20 thread screw to do that particular job.

I believe that one larger hole is less of a risk than three smaller ones.

I actually used a countersink to correctly champfer the hole.


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[4x4junkie]

I actually used a countersink to correctly champfer the hole.


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You're so special, aren't you Allan?

Somehow I just don't see 3 tiny little holes being more likely to have a crack start from them than the 5 big huge holes for the wheel studs. But what do I know? I've only driven 30,000 miles on them and dozens of rockcrawling trips with big huge 35x12.50 tires that you also say is so damaging to the hubs too.