With the car on stands and the wheels off, we set about removing the brakes. The pads came out easily using the rusty pin technique learned on the front suspension change. The first problem came immediately after - removing the brake caliper bolts. On investigation the ends of the bolts protrude through the wheel hub assembly and had corroded badly. This corrosion damanged the threads on the hub assembly.
With two used replacement wheel hub assembly's ordered, the revised task list now included loosening the main hub nut to pull the hub off the drive shafts. This required 5mins of heating from a blow torch, a 32mm deep socket, 1.5ft breaker bar with 2ft extension pole and the force of two adults. It was tightened to 460lbs/ft at the factory with added loctite!
Knowing the job would overrun we moved the car into the garage and spent the rest of the day removing the the suspension and wheel hub assembly.
