Help! Rear wheels stuck on hubs

[kangaroo 0]

Help me! Both my rear wheels are seized to the hubs in some way. I've tried twisting, hammering, pulling, etc, and they just won't come free. I'm in a bit of a pickle because I'm halfway through replacing the brake fluid...I guess I should have really checked this before I drained most of it, but its not something you anticipate!!

 

Any suggestions?

[Kevin Bacon 5]

They should come off with some tapping (plastic hammer) on the inside wheel rim and also a lot of rocking by grabbing the wheel top & bottom and pushing/pulling it. Take the centre caps off the wheels and spray loads of Plus-Gas in there to try and help free off the corrosion.

 

Bummer though! Happens a lot as the rear wheels rarely come off and aren't subjected to constant heat like the front wheels.

[chubbybrown 0]

How big a hammer have you used :?:

 

take a sledge hammer and bash the tyre thats how the tyre fitters remove our almost welded on alloy wheels

 

failing that use a bottle jack between the rear arch and the wheel.

[kangaroo 0]

Phew! Crisis over! Cheers for the advice, I sorted it now.

 

While the car was jacked up I yanked the handbrake on as far as it could go (and i mean pretty damn far, cos the handbrake is crap). Then I lowered the car back on to the ground. As the rear tyre met the tarmac there was a twisting motion that turned the wheel and broke the seized corrosion. Then it was just a case of wiggling the wheel free.

 

I'm going to clean off the rustyness, but is there anything I can do to prevent this happening again?

[dazzyvr6 0]

slap some copper grease on the hub

[Henny 0]

with ya there dazzyvr6, 8) :D

[kangaroo 0]

Okay! Copper grease it'll be :) Cheers.

[dinkus 10]

Dang, too slow.

 

PlusGas (WD40 on steroids), a large hammer and a long breaker bar are your best friends when working on old cars :)