i stripped my uprights awhile back to be sand blasted, all painted up nicely now, but forgot which hub goes where. where does the left hand thread one go? i currently have it on the o/s at the moment, i think it maybe on the wrong side.

anyone??

rob

well usually the nut slackens in the opposite direction that the wheel normally turns. A safety thing.

so after having to draw a picture thats's the passenger side rear with the left hand thread.

[Edited on 15/3/07 by Mr Whippy]

ah forgot to say it the front uprights i was talking about. sorry

same rule applies though

yeah just noticed the live axle bit myself





[Edited on 15/3/07 by Mr Whippy]

so the left hand thread goes on the drivers side, as the hub nuts on the front uprights are on the inner and not the outside face where the wheel sits on.
yes-no-maybe???

Oh so this is a sierra hub now I've got you, I assumed it was a cortina type, yeah your right then it the drivers side

got there in the end

Grey area as both my first set of front hubs had right hand thread, i did find left and right in the end as i thought something was wrong. Since then i have found out that there can be some hubs with the same thread,i put right hand thread on drivers and left hand on passenger.

Another rule of thumb i was told on rear hubs is that the nut always tightens towards the front of the vehicle which makes passenger side L/H thread.

In addition to this the nylocs ford supply are colour coded blue = R/H thread and yellow = L/H thread

huh? so which side does the left hand thread go on? i thought it was driver side?

Oh b*gger I've just checked mine & the front hubs have got the nuts on the wrong side. Oh well at least I found out now & not doing seventy around a bend!

This is quite funny really. Put simply when you turn the nut to tighten then the wheel when the car goes forward should also be turning in that direction. The idea being if the bearing was over tight or had even seized then (hopefully) there would be no danger of the nut unwinding and your wheel falling off, a favourite pass time for one of my trailers



[Edited on 15/3/07 by Mr Whippy]

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Originally posted by bodger
Oh b*gger I've just checked mine & the front hubs have got the nuts on the wrong side. Oh well at least I found out now & not doing seventy around a bend!

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the other is the weight and huge hole at the top!!!

so left hand thread on drivers side?!?

Actually I've just realised that on most 7's, because the steering rack is in front of the axle whilst on the sierra it's behind, you have to swap the front hubs over. Therefore the hub nuts will always be on the wrong side unless you take the hubs apart & swap the stub axles over. I'm pretty sure that most people don't do that. It's not mentioned in any build notes I've seen.

huh! the man has a huge valid point!! they are the wrong way round. so which way are your threads then?