Once the wishbones and drive shafts had been fitted it was time to connect the reconditioned sierra hubs to the car. These hubs come in two sections, a cylindrical bearing flange and the actually hub face which fits onto the end of the drive shaft.
Tools you may need for this job;
13mm socket and spanner
Long socket set
A very large adjustable spanner or a large socket head (I am fairly sure its 42mm)
Lithium grease
To start this job we aligned the calliper mounting brackets against the hub carrier. Its fairly simple to know which one goes no the left and right. The lugs on the bracket that hold the calliper in place should be facing outward. So if I was looking at the nearside of the car the bracket lugs should face towards me positioned to the left of the hub if I was to look at it side on. The picture on the right may explain it a little better. Once the calliper bracket is in place offer the cylinder section of the hub around the drive shaft and line the holes up. One thing to note at this point, the hubs have one flat side and a rounded side. This helps you determine which was around it sits. The flat edge should be pointing backwards and the rounded edge forwards. You may be able to see on the smaller image that the flat face is facing to the back. Put you bolts in and tighten them up.
Now the hub faces are slightly awkward to get on and off so you may want grease both the drive shaft end and the inside of the hub before fitting it. One thing you may want to do is to torque the hub bolts down before you fit the face if you do not have a long socket end set. If you do they can be torqued up through the round access holes in the hub face.
WARNING once the hub face is fitted and fully secured with the large nut it is dam near impossible to get off again so make sure your happy with everything before you fully tighten it up.
When the hub is fully tightened up you should not be able to see the black seal inside the hub cylinder. Now its time to fit the callipers :)
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