Thread: Wheel Bearing Hub nut size

You can buy a correct size tube spanner from most after market LR parts places for less than $20, I think MR sell them for about $12.

Correct size is 2 1/16", you can get away with 2 1/8". But a socket is not really a good idea, as for a start, they are expensive in that size, and secondly, it is likely to be too shallow to be used with the driving stubaxle sticking out on the front.
Do as shaunp suggests and get the tube spanner - Four Wheel Drives for example list them for $7.70, probably about a tenth what you would pay for a socket. And it will certainly work, where the socket may not. (Also fits Toyota and Jeep)

Correct size is actually 52mm, but 2 1/16 is near enough. I bought a 2 1/16 socket from one of those el cheapo Made in India tool & junk shops for a couple of dollars. It'll never take a decent torque level for its size, but then you're doing up a hub nut, so it's still about 1000 times stonger than you'll ever need. And yes, it is deep enough to do the job.


Paul [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

I very much doubt if the correct size is in millimetres, seeing that the size has remained unchanged since the introduction of the first Jeep in 1940 - and the US did not use millimetres then.

Originally posted by JDNSW
I very much doubt if the correct size is in millimetres, seeing that the size has remained unchanged since the introduction of the first Jeep in 1940 - and the US did not use millimetres then.

You're probably right there, especially as the size is almost exactly the same. But since 99.95% of Landrover fixings have been metric for quite some time now, rightly or wrongly most hub nut spanners get sold with the 52mm label on them. Probably same old spanners, just new labels. :wink:


Paul [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

I carry a 52mm socket and 3/4 drive power bar for the wheel nuts. It works very well and does not damage the nut casings. Tube spanners tend to skew off to one side due to their length under power, particuarly if the local tyre mart has used a rattle gun on them. I also carry a cheap socket for the tow ball nut.

Trev.

:? :? :?: Are we getting Wheel BEARING Nuts and WHEEL Nuts mixed up here [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img]

Originally posted by UncleHo
:? :? :?: Are we getting Wheel BEARING Nuts and WHEEL Nuts mixed up here :)

I think you could be right - but 52mm wheel nuts???