Suspension and wheel bearings

The top plates don't get thicker. What's going to happen is there should be a spacer that you've ordered 1.6 in isn't that 40 mm or somewhere thereabouts I just put this on the same car about 3 weeks ago a couple of points you're going to need to be careful of on your new struts You're going to need to knock out the long studs that hold the top plates to your car The new ones are going to be 40 mm or so longer really long on the new struts it may be very difficult to knock out that splined stud which is about 3 in long or so You may have to cut that with your angle grinder and then run your angle grinder across the strut top plate metal so you can see the star and then take a punch and whack those out The new longer spline the studs splines will not be the same so you need to rotate the splines get it close and then smack it with a hammer and seat it x6 of them . And that's about it other than that everything went pretty spiffy when you go to put your suspension and swing everything back up you're going to notice some differences in angles You may have to put some weight or a pry bar to lift up to get everything spiffy The two bolts in the hub assembly usually when I'm doing this I'm changing out the hub bearing and the lower ball joint all at the same time so I don't have this apart again generally in my time with the car You're system may be different.

 

I don't run the 16s I never have 17s sometimes and mostly the reliable 15s on the Prius wheels on my lifted nonsense I'll be able to go to about a 26-in overall diameter tire and wheel package for me this will be somewhere around 2:15.60 15 65s might make it on the rear I'm not sure of that that puts you at about 26.4 in or something along those lines 26 with the tape measure looks pretty close usually when I measure like that I get a little more space than I bargained for but at least I'm not rubbing I don't want any rubbing so there's always that generally there's no more than two people in the car and tools in the back and stuff maybe the trailer attached so we don't want any rubbing when the suspension under lights and I think the 215 60s will kill it be good setup the 65s maybe not all the way around We don't want to mismatch tire sizes and have problems with the traction control.

 

I had a hard time getting the wheel bearings out of the spindle. 60k Press couldn't handle it on its own, but maxing out the press and also hammering down with a sledge hammer at the same time got it out. Lots of corrosion buildup between the bearing flange and the spindle. Sprayed it down with PBlaster a week earlier and tried heating it with a salamander heater because apparently aluminum expands twice as much as steel, but that didn't help. A bigger press wouldve done it.

 

And this is in what state where is the car from The thing doesn't show where you are so whatever But yeah I guess sure this can happen under those poor conditions and my guess that's the car was used on boat ramps or God knows high moisture condition sure then you just pull the whole front hub off and get another one when you can beat apart I usually keep a couple spare sets around here loaded and ready to go just for that reason in case something like that happens but here in the southeast that's quite rare