Last week I decided to take off the rear wheels on the van to give the brakes a visual inspection as the van had been sitting for longer than is good over winter and my torchlit crawl under look showed the disk to be a bit rusty.
That's where the problems began, the nuts came off easy but the wheel was stuck fast, a few hammer blows had no effect,so rather than risk damage to me or the van I made arrangements for a long trusted garage to free off the wheels clean and refit. That was this afternoon, a job which was to take a few minutes lasted all afternoon. They managed to free the near side wheels but the offside is still locked in place.
We have now agreed that I will drive the MH around a bit this week and at every opportunity I will spray even more penetrating oil into the wheel hubs and the guys will try again next week. Plan B is to cut the wheel off and replace with a new unit.
Lessons for all to learn: If you have twin rear wheel axles make sure that the wheels are free to be removed and are well coated with copper grease to prevent them seizing on to the half shaft and to each other. I guess it also applies to single wheel axles as if I had a roadside issue there is no way it could be resolved by the usual roadside assist services.
Let's hope we have some success next week:Sad:
That's where the problems began, the nuts came off easy but the wheel was stuck fast, a few hammer blows had no effect,so rather than risk damage to me or the van I made arrangements for a long trusted garage to free off the wheels clean and refit. That was this afternoon, a job which was to take a few minutes lasted all afternoon. They managed to free the near side wheels but the offside is still locked in place.
We have now agreed that I will drive the MH around a bit this week and at every opportunity I will spray even more penetrating oil into the wheel hubs and the guys will try again next week. Plan B is to cut the wheel off and replace with a new unit.
Lessons for all to learn: If you have twin rear wheel axles make sure that the wheels are free to be removed and are well coated with copper grease to prevent them seizing on to the half shaft and to each other. I guess it also applies to single wheel axles as if I had a roadside issue there is no way it could be resolved by the usual roadside assist services.
Let's hope we have some success next week:Sad: