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Grease caps on wire-wheel hubs

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Tintinmilou

Tintinmilou

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I'm trying to replace the front brake disks on my '66 MGB-GT with wire wheels. However, I can't get the grease caps off to expose the castelated nut holding the hub on. There's a nice threaded stud, but putting a nut on it and using a slide hammer produced no movement. What's the trick? Is there another special British-Leyland grease-cap extraction tool?

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I had this problem recently on my 72 BGT. I had made a tool that was "T" shaped with a nut of the correct thread size welded to the bottom of the "T". Of course when I needed I couldn't find it so I took a bolt of the same thread and found a slightly longer than normal nut. Put it together so the added bolt created an extension off the stud with the nut holding the two together. Then used some leverage to pull out the cup. A little crude, but I did get it out. Recently I found my custom tool, go figure.

Rich
 
If you'd like to go the easy route and buy one Robb Nortier at British Tool Co. makes em' for sale - I've had many positive transactions with Robb - He's a great guy He also has some other neat tools as well as rental schemes for hard to find service tools - Give him a look at the address below

www.britishtool.com

Bob M
 
Being a "heck for strong-but not so pretty" type of guy, I would just go for my channel lock pliers and twist it off...then replace it if necessary ;-)

Bruce
 
That did it, thanks. I had to go out and buy a 17/64 drill bit, but that was a small sacrifice. Once I got my tool built, I got the grease caps out in short order, and the rest was easy. Now on to rebuilding the master cylinders, and I'll be ready to run-in the new engine!
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