chevyximport

how inthe hell does the front hub come off after u take ur rodar off?????? i am replacing a wheel stud

chevyximport

i am trying to remove the hub on my LS coupe...i took the rotar off becuz i am replacing a wheel stud....please help..thnx

chevyximport

i need info on removing a front hub on my LS coupe...i need to replace a wheel stud...anyone kno??

an0malous

Spamming the forum wont get your question answered quicker.
in fact it may stop it getting answered at all.

Halfcent

One thread please. Merged.

You take off the axle first, then the hub unbolts.

chevyximport

i dont have the right tools or a shop to remove an axle....

Halfcent

Well then there isn't some other magic way of doing it. You'll have to take it in.

css9450

I've never needed to pull the axle, unless the Cobalts are different. I remove the center nut from the axle shaft, followed by the 3 bolts that mount the hub to the knuckle. Then I use a two-jaw puller to pull the hub from the knuckle (I've pried them out in the junkyard too). Like I said, the Cobalts may be more complicated, and there are ABS sensors to deal with too, but that ought to cover it.

alleycat58

^^^What he said. When damn Pep Boys stripped one of my studs my boyfriend and I had to fix it ourselves since they denied causing the damage and I needed to fix the stud before doing a track day the next morning. We just unbolted my hub, unbolted his hub and swapped them then fixed the stud later on. It was really easy you just have to watch the wheel sensor that you don't damage it. That'd be an expensive woops.

Halfcent

Yes, but you still had to remove the axle from the hub by taking off the large nut that holds the axle to the hub.

alleycat58

Yes, on the front, that's what css said in his post. But the axle itself doesn't have to come off that I'm aware of. You said in your first post you had to take the whole axle off and then take the hub off. For the most part, the axle is usually fine staying on the car unless there's something crazy on there getting in the way of the hub bolts.

css9450

Right... Actually I may have misread you earlier - I thought you meant the axle has to come out of the tranny, which of course it doesn't (although I popped one out once by accident on my Beretta the first time I tried to replace a hub).