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This is what my Hilux's hub looks like after the FWH studs sheared. The FWH is toast, but what about the hub itself?



I also ripped the captive nuts out of my snorkel, anyone had this issue? How'd you fix it? The pillar mount one is the worst.

I would say the hub is ok, but be really carefull getting the broken studs out. The hubis way softer than the studs. Why did they shear? Are the dowels missing or were the cone washers missing/loose? I run drive flanges and have hd no issues, done a cv or two though.

Snorkel - plastic weld maybe or perhaps drill it right out and weld a nut to a peice of panel steel and use a bit of fibreglass to wrap around and hold it on. Or try building up a good thick layer of fibre glass over the hole and tap that, prob rip out that way though.

Dowels were there, you can see where they have damaged the hubs as they came out. Was also running cone washers, lockwashers and had locktighted the studs themselves. I've got a front Lokka and had been using a fair bit more jandle throughout the day than usual (was in the Kiwi4x4 challenge). I had put it down to the lokka.
When it broke it wasn't the hardest hill of the day.

Hubs fine, take it off an get use easy outs to remove the broken studs, When was the last time ya cecked if the nuts were tight? They prob just loosened up a bit over time an have all cracked an broken off.
Plastic welding could fix your snorkel. If it was mine Id put a rivnut thru some alloy plate (big enough to cover the hole). Cover that in a strong silicon sealant an rivet it to the inside thru the snorkel an bolt it back on

before you ask nick yes we have rivnut gun can redo the pillar mounts as well as snorkel and bring the hub in i can sort the studs for ya

so long as your dowel holes havent stretched you should be able to extract the old studs and dowels and replace them, when my hubs go with a 350, diff locks, longfields, big tyres and big offset it usually stretches the holes and distorts the hub face and I just replace the whole hub, if your replacement dowels fit back in nice and tight you should be fine

In that case id weld up the stretched hole an redrill it to suit the dowel

Fakey wrote:In that case id weld up the stretched hole an redrill it to suit the dowel

or rotate the FWH one turn and drill new dowel holes

Fakey wrote:In that case id weld up the stretched hole an redrill it to suit the dowel

Thats what i would do, and by the looks of it nick, this is what you will have to do. Or get a second hand one. Proberly best to check the other side aswell.

Cheers Daniel

if you think you might buy another snorkel I may sell mine as I might be doing a "rokhound" joby on my lux

bettererer yet do the surf ifs hub swap for more width

have a hub somewhere if you want to do a deal..

snorkel now repaired dude working on hub..............

pretty sure i have some spare hubs if you need one.

better yet just get a new truck..lol I'd turn it and re drill.. my 2 cents worth.. not much but hey..

and heres a tip for the studs

if you cant find any use the shoulder section from a cap screw this steel is realy hard but it is also very tough and is able to handle higher sheer loads than standard 8.8 bolts

just an idea