Quick update to sourcing the axles. I just ordered them through Advance Auto Parts' website. For my 30v quattro, they run $84 each plus an $80 core charge each. They arrive in a week with free shipping (I wasn't going to pay $105 for two-day delivery), and with a printed invoice showing an invoice number, and proof that they were ordered through the Advance Auto portion of the site (since the site covers six different chains), the local Advance Auto will refund the core charge and accept the cores. I just did a print-screen for each axle's info page, plus a print-screen for my paid invoice and the confirmation email that I received, and with that info and the cores, I can go to the local store and get my $160 core charges back. The ordered price came to $327.98, so with the cores refunded, the total cost is $167.98 - hard to beat that, since they're remanufactured with a lifetime warranty, vs paying $130 each through PureMS or ECS.

 

i cant get the center 14mm hub bolt out!!!

HELP ME PLEASE


any tricks to getting it out?

 

bumpp

 

Spray the hell out of it with PB Blaster and let it soak for awhile, then do it again, soak, and do it a third time. After that penetrates, that should help. Use a breaker bar if you can, and slide a cheater bar (hollow tube/pipe) over the breaker bar to give you more leverage, and then stomp on it to break it loose. If that doesn't work, and you're careful, you could get a torch kit from Lowe's (~ $20) and heat it up some. Don't overheat it though - too much heat on the hub could cause damage to any gaskets/rubber parts attached to it.

 

see thats what is scaring me. i have done EVERYONE of those things..i used liquid wrench instead of pb blaster.

it wont break at all, i had a 5ft cheater on it and it broke my 2in extension

 

If YOU cant get it off. Go to a tire/brake shop and ask them if they can break them free with a impact wrench and then tighten it up snug. Then you can go home and swap it back out. I cant imagine them charging you more than $20 for doing it.

Oh, and crying because no one helping at 1am on a fri night is funny as hell!

 

1pm actually on this saturday