Almost died!!!

[lasvegascop]

I havn't checked yet, but can you get the spindle nuts at Checkers or Autozone for the Aspire? Anyone know?

[25Horseplay]

I havn't checked yet, but can you get the spindle nuts at Checkers or Autozone for the Aspire? Anyone know?

Autozone and Advance carry them.

[V8Festiva]

My 93 model Festiva has a hole drilled in it. The older models don't. Wonder if a machine shop could drill the older spindles.

[FB71]

neither spindle on my 93 has a hole for a cotter pin and castle nut.

the spindles came to Kia from two different suppliers, the one making reverse thread on the right being the primary supplier.

[lasvegascop]

Funny you say that Jim...I stripped the freakin nut on the right, thinking it was going same way as the others including both fronts. So, I went to the junk yard (in the same day I fixed the driver's side haha) and got the passenger side since for $8.13 I couldnt resist.

Good safety/mech tip! The passenger side spindle nut turns the other way(clock wise) to unscrew it!!!! hahahahahah

[lasvegascop]

Oh yeah...we are talking about the rears here....sorry

[lasvegascop]

Anyone knows the torgue for the rear spindle nut?
thnx as usual

[FestYboy]

torque nut till you 'just' can't turn the drum by hand, un-torque, repeat, then un torque 1/4 turn (no more!!) and dimple the coller on the nut to secure it. never had an issue with any rear bearings using this method.

note: torqueing hubbed drums should always be done by hand in this manner.

[lasvegascop]

got it...thnx much...

By the way...the fronts I got torqued at around 100 lb/ft ...sounds about right?

[stevewl1164]

Yikes! I have been warned about this possibility. Scary!

[sam.1956]

The shop manual has a semi-complicated procedure about measuring rear seal drag with an inch-pound torque wrench, blah blah blah. FestYboy's procedure sounds just as reasonable & is easier. So little torque on that rear axle nut really scares the hell out of me. Checking into trying to get spindles drilled for a cotter pin. Still haven't found a source for reverse threaded castle/castellated nut. Would have to get a machine shop to make a bunch, if they'd even do it.

[FestYboy]

AutoZone stocks them... as does PepBoys

Lasvegascop: tyipcally CV spindle nuts are torqued to about 150, mine sit at about 120

[FB71]

torque nut till you 'just' can't turn the drum by hand, un-torque, repeat, then un torque 1/4 turn (no more!!) and dimple the coller on the nut to secure it. never had an issue with any rear bearings using this method.

note: torqueing hubbed drums should always be done by hand in this manner.

WOAH!!!! Do NOT leave the nut backed off 1/4 turn!!!!!! The 1/4 turn is the detorquing BETWEEN torque applications to seat the bearings. Taper roller bearings REQUIRE a certain amount of preload.

The procedure specifies that you are supposed to end up WITH drag on the drum. I've done it by the book several times, and have determined that a hub nut torque of 5-10 lb-in yields near the drag specs indicated by Ford.

After torquing, rotating the drum and detorquing (twice is prefered), tighten the nut finger-tight, no tools. Then take a pair of pliers or channel locks, grasping the nut straight on (like you would to place a ring on a finger) and give it a light twist to tighten. It shouldn't rotate more than 1/16-1/8 of an inch.

Leaving the hub nut loose by a 1/4 turn will result in premature failure of the bearings, usually first indicated by cupping of the rear tires. Gradually, the bearings will overheat, and can lock and damage/destroy the rear spindle.

[FestYboy]

sorry Jim, that's how i've done it for years. but, i let my hands tell me when it's right.

the 1/4 turn back, or less, (for me) comes after locking the bearing down enough that the drum won't spin anymore. so i guess i lay into my bearings a bit more than recomended but as i've not had a problem with this method, i havn't had a need to change it.

[postman101]

well today i went to change my rear bearings and of course i started on the passenger side. The owners that had this car before me ruined that nut and i was able to take it off by hand didn't even have to turn it just pulled. The car has 322,000kms on it and the bearings must have been done quite awhile ago. I cant believe the damn thing didn't fall off in the 2200kms that i have put on since buying it.