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Went to replace front passenger hub assembly on my 11 Jetta wagon. Thought it would take about an hour. Well, 2 hours later, me and my buddy had broken 2 breaker bars, 1/2” impact did nothing, I took it over to my buddies at firestone to have them break it loose and they couldn’t get it to budge, and I took it to a friend of a friend with a 1” impact and 4’ breaker bar – nothing happened except we broke the breaker bar.
At this point, we’ve got 4 of us standing around staring at each other at a complete loss, but enjoying our beers nonetheless. A couple days later, I took it to a mechanic near my apartment and I explained how tight it was and what we’d already tried and I asked if they could give it a shot. They had 2 techs work on it and then they were bewildered and said “sorry we don’t know what to tell you.”
I finally take it to my VW dealership – I’ve got a good relationship with those guys. Sitting in the waiting room, I hear ugga dugga ugga dugga ugga dugga ugga dugga for a good 20 minutes. I’m laughing my butt off at this point. After 40 minutes waiting, the tech brings me my keys and says “you’re good to go. We got it to break loose.” I asked what they did and he laughed, “we did things.” He told me they finally got it loose with a 4’ breaker bar after hitting it with the impact forever.
So a couple days later, I get with my buddy and we got the hub changed within about an hour, no other problems.
Has anyone else ever experienced anything like this? Torque spec only 150 ft lbs, so absolutely no reason to have this much trouble with the dang thing. My buddy told me I should frame the nut.
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