hub lock nut question

[pasadena_commut]

This is probably the dumbest question ever but here goes anyway.

Do the Protege's hub lock nuts rotate with the wheel on the front, the back, both, or neither?

I'm looking at the illustrations in protege5.ugly.net. The front looks like it probably does rotate since it seems to clamp directly onto the end of the drive shaft. But on the back I'm not so sure, since I don't know if the hub spindle rotates, or if the rear hub rotates around the hub spindle.

[Peter5]

u just lost me haha

[FunkyBuddha]

WTF.. lol..maybe you can post a link or pics? that would be useful

[pasadena_commut]

maybe you can post a link or pics?

The front hub lock nut is the one they are whacking with a chisel in the bottom illustration on page 7 here:

http://protege5.ugly.net/03-11.PDF

The rear hub lock nut is object number "3" on page 4 here:

http://protege5.ugly.net/03-12.PDF

[pasadena_commut]

Bump.

Anybody???

[J_Naoto]

the front rotates with the wheel. the only reason i know is because i had to change mine. but the rear, i have no idea.

[gone_fishin]

The drive axle hub nut (exactly what you are speaking of) threads onto the very end of the axle. The axle hub nut serves to anchor the axle into the hub assembly-- so as to prevent the end from sliding out of the hub assembly.

In a nut shell, both drive axles spin (as driven by the transmission). Each axle has splining (gearing) at the very end whose teeth interlock with the splining teeth on the inside of the hub assembly. That is what enables the hub assembly to spin with the axle. The very tip of the axle (which sticks out slighly from the outer face of the hub assembly) is threaded so that you can screw onto it the axle hub nut. It's staked to prevent it from comming loose. In short, the axle spins the hub assembly, and so the hub nut spins with the axle and the hub assembly, while holding the two together. The rear does the same as well.

A quick little schematic:

____[___]
----//////-||
----//////-||
____[___]

Axle is ----
Splining is ///
Hub Assembly is [__] (this rotates)
Hub Nut is ||

[P5wance]

What size is the hub nut? I don't have a socket big enough. Anyone know??

[khaosman]

32mm

[P5wance]

thanks, and the rear is a 36MM correct?

[Prodigy]

You are correct.

[5PADZAM]

The drive axle hub nut (exactly what you are speaking of) threads onto the very end of the axle. The axle hub nut serves to anchor the axle into the hub assembly-- so as to prevent the end from sliding out of the hub assembly.

In a nut shell, both drive axles spin (as driven by the transmission). Each axle has splining (gearing) at the very end whose teeth interlock with the splining teeth on the inside of the hub assembly. That is what enables the hub assembly to spin with the axle. The very tip of the axle (which sticks out slighly from the outer face of the hub assembly) is threaded so that you can screw onto it the axle hub nut. It's staked to prevent it from comming loose. In short, the axle spins the hub assembly, and so the hub nut spins with the axle and the hub assembly, while holding the two together. The rear does the same as well.

A quick little schematic:

____[___]
----//////-||
----//////-||
____[___]

Axle is ----
Splining is ///
Hub Assembly is [__] (this rotates)
Hub Nut is ||

Very informative, for the front that is. But on the rear, the nut does not spin when the wheel/hub spins. The nut tightens down onto the spindle, and the spindle does not spin.