Anyone have the correct size so I can purchase a socket? Installing new Ashcroft HD axle shafts. Thanks.

This guy -->

 

I think Tom Rowe recently said it was 32mm.


https://landroverforums.com/forum/ge...t-58033/page2/

 

The antichrist knows all, thank you!

 

Hardly. And it's just from memory so don't put money on it.

 

I already put money on it haha...ordered from Amazon...

 

Better plan on finding one hell of a big/strong torques wrench, that bolt torques to 350 foot pounds.

 

Where are you seeing that? I can't find anything of the sort in rave.

 

It's there, but Mike was a little low. A 3/4 inch torque wrench will give you that, or you can always use math. Get a breaker bar and a pipe, tighten the nut as much as you can then set it up so that the handle is just about horizontal. Make a mark on the pipe that corresponds to where you would need to stand to make the same amount of torque and then stand on it. 360 ft. lbs. of torque is 360 lbs. at 1 ft. from the center of the nut. If you weigh 180 lbs., stand at 2 ft. from the center of the nut and you have the same torque.

Or you can put an impact gun on it and lay into it. You are just clamping the hub between the axle stub and the flange so it's not like you are setting a preload on a bearing. Too loose will end badly, though.