could some nice guy with his workshop manual handy tell me what the torque settings are for the front hub nuts on a scooby legacy 1.8 16v 1991 estate I have been struggling for about an hour trying to persuade one to undo and it isnt having any at all so before I take it into a workshop with airtools do I have an earthly chance of moving the b****r Derek
If it's like my 1990 Legacy, it's a staked nut, and you have little chance of moving it with normal hand tools. The torque is actually kind low, 90 lb-ft or so, but then the nut is "staked" so it doesn't back off on it's own... Look at the nut, if there's a spot where the edge of the nut in basically hammered into a recess/slot that's your problem. I couldn't budge mine with a breaker bar, and a 6 foot pipe, but once I realize the neighbor had an air compressor, I grabbed my impact and spun it right off.....
Thanks for the info i had unstaked the nut ( I thought so) and cleaned up the staked side with a grinder obviously not well enough to free it off
Derek
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