Hello, I have a question on the hub/rotor assembly. One of my wheel bearings kinda dissintegrated inside my hub and in the back where the grease seal sits got rubbed down a little so now my new seals are loose and just kind of come off. I called the Ford dealership to get replacement rotor/hubs, but they only come in the rotors. SO my question is, how do you seperate the hubs from the rotors as I cannot seem to figure it out, or do you have to buy them as a whole rotor/hub assembly as the lady at the parts desk was not really all too bright and took her half an hour to find the "right" ones. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

Information on your Bronco's year would help.

Suffice it to say, youll need a bearing retaining nut tool, and a torque wrench for specialty tools. Once the retaining bolts and washers are out along with the outer bearing itself, the hub/rotor assembly will come off by hand. Hammer the lug bolts out, and voila your hub and rotor are seperated.

-Matt

 

Ok thanks, thats all I needed to know. I had the rotor/hub off, but I wasn't sure how to seperate them. So all I have to do is hammer out the lug bolts. Cool.

 

Do yourself a favor and DON'T just pound directly on the wheel studs to remove them. Use a lug nut (preferrably an old one you don't mind beating to death) and run it down til the end of the stud is just below the end of the lug nut. This way you may mushroom the lug nut but not the wheel stud. Mushroom the stud itself and you will end up having to cut off the mushroomed end off before the hub and rotor will separate. I realize this may be common knowledge but I figured better to say it now than hear what a terrible time you had removing the studs later.

 

lol, thanks Greystreak.

 

Or you could just use a hard rubber/wood mallet to play it safe. If you mushroom the tips of your lug bolts by hitting them with a hammer then they are REALLY seized. I removed the original ones off my 84 and they came out easily.

-Matt

 

I used an old lug with an open end so I could monitor the possibility that I could be doing more harm than good. The rubber mallet wasn't budging the ones on my '92.