cautionary tale for the 914 racers here, vid gets a bit long waiting for the tow truck but worth a view Options

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The latest track day adventure. Had a couple friends out and was going to split the first session of the day giving them both a quick ride while I warmed up the tires... turns out to not be the case but also get to learn a new lesson.

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So it has been a couple months while I focused on driving the trailer out to CA (hitting SEMA on the way), picking up the Nova I bought last summer for my new project, and then getting everything in the garage prep'd to build a chassis for it.

In between I broke an extension standing on my breaker bar with 4ft of pipe over it trying to get the axle nut back off after the last time I tightened it up pull the car out of the trailer and into the garage, borrowed my buddies torches only to find out his acetalyne was empty, blah blah, finally got the bottle filled yesterday.

Took 2 hrs of beating and cutting to get the nut off! I was trying to be careful to not damage the hub, figured I yielded the stub threads...


then I found I had to hammer the stub out! Here is what I ended up with


the sharp eye will quickly note I need not have bothered with protecting the hub while cutting - I sheared the damn thing off! The hub section that rides on the bearing is stuck on the stub axle, a few teeth were tore up so it is holding that onto the stub! What I had to hammer apart was the bearing to get the stub out. Guess that would explain the slipping in the diff (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Literally, the only thing holding the wheel on was the stub axle and the nut, the hub was completely broken off (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)