Any ideas about how to remove this axle-nut?

Its kinda worse than it looks. Let me breakdown the situation...

Initially it was just the threaded axle-nut area...HOWEVER

1. The 2007 Prius is a PARTS CAR (wrecked in an accident; car is in my backyard)

2. What I'd like to do is remove the entire knuckle with the bearing inside it and then transfer it over to my other 2007 Prius which has a bad bearing

3. I removed the knuckle from the top and the bottom so NOW the bearing assembly is hanging loose.

4. I CANT FIGURE OUT HOW TO STABILIZE IT!

HOLD ON: will take pics now....



5. It seems easier than it looks to stabilize it but with the minimal tools I have I can't figure out how to keep it steady to even THINK about the axle-nut issue. I figure once I do that I might be able to A) heat it up with propane or 2) force the axle-nut off

TL;DR: everytime I try to remove the axle-nut the bearing assembly moves and wont hold steady.

btw: yeah...I do wish I left the tire on and tried to remove the axle-nut first before removing the knuckle ..but basically impossible to align it now with a that pump jack and two scissor jacks (ground not level + can't get the height)

 

SUCCESS!

1. stair-stepped the front of the car up to the height necessary to put the wheel on

2. Shouldn't have made a big deal of the trying to get that axle-nut off. Basically ANY force will take off. The indentation in the nut just popped out. Its seems like its rather soft metal.

3. NOW...the issue is taking off the axle. The axle-end needs to pushed in so I can removed the entire knuckle.

I DO NOT HAVE A HAMMER. I lent mine to someone and never got it back. Should I go out and buy one? I tried using a wooden plank to push the axle back into the bearing assembly but it didnt work.

 

the thing is i don't have a completely safe car to drive at the moment. The wheel bearing in the usable Prius is really bad and sounds like its going to break. so instead of using a hammer i used a vise. I don't have many tools but trying to make do with what I have.

OK. So now how do I proceed? I want to remove this entire thing and move it over to the other Prius. Here is the fastener. I've never removed one of these before but I assume I pull the cotter-pin out with pliers and then use a 14mm? to loosen this.

EDIT: Took out the cotter-pin but it seems the 17mm socket keeps slipping as the only place for it to hold is the bottom of this? HOW do you get this tie-rod separated without stripping the nut??

Then I will have the entire assembly in hand and I can leave the wrecked car be. I just want the knuckle/bearing assembly.

 

for the axle I used a 12pt. However right now the VERY LAST thing is getting this tie-rod off so I can take the bearing assembly/knuckle.

I can't find any real method to get this off. I've tried but it is almost stripped so I'm going to try different means.

 

maybe youre correct. I never felt like a tight fit. that's why I went so crazy on it. gonna buy a nut-splitter and knock it off. I won't need it since the other car will also have the nut.

 

urgency. Not having a car = desperate.

I was hoping to get more eyeballs to get this tie-rod nut off. thing is I don't have transportation so I kinda have to bike to anyplace I'm going to get parts. I hate biking. One time I had a bad battery and rode my bike like 5 miles to buy a new battery. I balanced the 30lb battery on my handlebars all the way home....it sucked. gonna bike to the store to get a nut-splitter tomorrow morning, should be much easier.

I think I might just take the hub-assembly to a shop tomorrow and let them put the part in for me if its reasonable. Apparently the assembly needs to be put back together in a torque specified manner. I don't have a torque-wrench as well.

Easy to be a little reckless removing parts from a wrecked car, but maybe I should be more prudent in the Prius I actually have to depend on. I don't want to risk messing this up and maybe I'll learn something about how to remove & install the hub-assembly on the other side when I need to.

Thanks for all of your advice.

 

thank you.

The no personal-transportation issue is kinda like your health. You take it for granted and then suddenly when you are sick or hurt, you become a desperate internet-sleuth trying to find any answer from anywhere on how to get healthy.

one big lesson I've learned is to remove all the parts i might need from the wrecked car while the weather is nice. I'm going to remove the OTHER wheel hub-assembly and the water pump and various items since the weather in the Midwest is a beautiful 70 degrees & sunny. Much better than having to remove parts when it's ZERO degrees out in January.