Iv ruined my landrover

Angle grinder is at the ready, I'm about to cut a slot in the flange as per locky1978 suggestion.
I would have done this earlier but I had to strip it enough to get this back home to a power point,
I was hoping the bits would arrive today but no luck.
I can't believe this has gone so bad, I only wanted to change the wheel bearing!

Wait send us some pics of yer mess before you cut it apart

Oh no!!! I'm so so so sorry, I didn't see that in time.
It's off!! All in pieces now.
Amazingly it's now obvious why the thing was so stuck.
It took an hour and a half to cut/chisel the drive flange off.
They are recessed into the hub a fair way and I was going canny hoping to save the hub from damage. #epicfail
The hub nut was rusty as #### and had loads of rust dust falling out of it,
I pulled the bearings out, the outer one red rusty! No grease at all, just a partial covering of red grinding paste.
Inner one looks normal? Rust had crept down the outside of the stub axle,inside was worse I can see where the cv shaft has been rubbing the rust away! it's proper ####ed.
I can't believe the only symptom was a funny squeak when turning left!
Iv decided just to do the lot I'm not taking this pig to bits again for a while.
Anything that's not right I'm changing!

It's enough to make me want to self harm.
I'm off to look on autotrader for a suzuki jimny

USLandy said:

If u heat the flange it will expand the metal and be even harder to take off. Next time cool it and contract the steel and it should give enough wiggle room to take it off.

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Eh.?

USLandy said:

If u heat the flange it will expand the metal and be even harder to take off. Next time cool it and contract the steel and it should give enough wiggle room to take it off.

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:crazy:are you pyshed?

Landyfox said:

Eh.?

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its ok he was thors apprentice