Rear Hub Removal Speciaty Tool?

[grainfedprairieboy]

Long time lurker first time poster.

I've got a 2006 Liberty diesel with a broken lug bolt.

Simple enough, removed wheel, caliper, rotor and then discovered the 4 bolt heads in the back holding the hub on are factory round about 80% of the circumference with a small flat area for the remaining 20%. WTF?

There is no axle nut in front and the centre of the hub seems solid and unpryable. Everything on the internet that I can find says it is either hexagonal or an E12/14 nut but nothing like this.

What am I missing here?

 

[TheBlueKJ]

Pictures are worth a thousand words.

So I'm going to assume that you are talking about the front since you said hub.
You're saying it looks nothing like this?

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And last I remembered the bolts holding my hub on there were 3 torx head bolts

 

[CactusJacked]

Sounds like you're describing the axle bearing retainer that bolts to the axle housing flange. The rear isn't a bolt on bearing hub like the front is. As far as you have it apart now, give the broken wheel stud a few whacks with a hammer to pop it out. You'll have to use a drift pin if the stud is snapped flush with the hub.

 

[TheBlueKJ]

Oh duh it says rear in the title. You don't have to take anything apart past taking the rotor off for that. If you want to take off the "hub" which is actually the axle shaft, you'd be looking at taking the diff cover off and removing the c-clip inside the diff to pull out the shaft.

 

[grainfedprairieboy]

If you want to take off the "hub" which is actually the axle shaft, you'd be looking at taking the diff cover off and removing the c-clip inside the diff to pull out the shaft.

Just to change a broken lug bolt? Seems excessive.

 

[TheBlueKJ]

Just to change a broken lug bolt? Seems excessive.

You don't have to take it off to change the wheel stud, like cactus said whack the old one out with a hammer and then slip in the new one and use a wheelstud installer to seat the new one