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Hub retaining nut: size

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Can someone tell me what size the hub retaining nut (front) for a 95 Contour V6 2.6 auto is?
I tried to find a solid (not the 'multi disc' design Ford is selling me as the OEM replacement).

Also need to re-cut the threads (damaged from the 'multi disc' nut when taking off).
 
I took off the multi-disk kind on my 1995. Then replaced it with the same thing on the same axles. I would just do that and ease them on so you don't cross thread it. The multi-disk kind are a good idea since we don't have a way to use a castle nut and cotter pin. The nut sets the bearing preload too so it doesn't seem like a good idea to just get a different nut and try to torque it
 
Not sure of the size offhand but I do Know that thread chasers are available as I used one on mine before when the OEM nut pulled the threads coming of
 
i •••••ed up the threads on mine with the stupid multi-disc when i was doing my LCA's and suspension. i ended up just getting new drive axles. It was a lot easier and less time consuming.
 
The thread is M22x1.5. I got the nut at McMasterCarr and put it on behind the new OEM multi-disk nut (that spins without much torque since the treads on are very much gone from spinning when trying to get the old nut off; outer threads in somewhat better shape). Tigtened the 2nd, solid nut until both nuts touched. Then line up and pushed the 32mm deep socket over both, and tighten with the medium torque wrench to 200 Nm (max it can handle). Then switched to the big boy, set to 290 Nm according to spec. But after a few turns, I felt the nuts are not pulling anymore, so I stopped short of the 290 Nm. Car drives fine.

I put installing new half shafts on my to-do list, and will look for one during the next trip to the JY. But its a ton of work I imagine (hub has to come off, pinch bolt, strut, ball joints).
 
My stripping the threads came from not listening to the manual and being lazy: with the car on stand, its difficult to block the wheels strong enough to get the 290Nm onto the nut. So, lazy as I am: grab the big o' pneumatic hammer and you have it loose in now time. Oh, its not off yet? Lets give it a little more spinning. Uups.

So: reusing (if the cage is still tight) maybe ok, but don't use the pneumatic gun to loosen or install! I have learned the lesson.
 
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