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Message Subject Need some help with car repair.. Final Update pg.7
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I ended up buying an 8" 14mm wrench and a 3' iron pipe. You are only able to get a wrench on it with just your finger tips. The pipe helped with leverage. I had to twist the axle shaft in order to (very, very) slowly twist the bolt out with my finger tips.
Once that last bolt was out the crazy began. The bracket itself needed to (somehow) be twisted around in order to knock the axle out. I couldn't just knock the axle out once the bracket was unbolted because there is a slight angle on the engine block right next to the bracket. So I had to pull slightly on the axle shaft with one hand while trying to twist the bracket with the other.
This is easily the worst design I have ever seen. I can't imagine how a real mechanic would do it differently. Toyota clearly has a design flaw in this model.

I'd love to save the $100 for the new bracket (which I had to buy from the dealer) but it is straight up fused. I placed a bolt in the "snug hole" (I guess it's called that) and tightened it until the bearing broke. Upon looking inside more closely at it, it is just fused solid. Even if I managed to get the bearing out (which I don't think is possible) I would have to spend a few hours trying to grind the rest of it out. I had no idea that metal could fuse like that. It's actually really impressive albeit expensive.
 Quoting: Bananafighter


Had you called around to find out what a shop with real mechanics would have charged for this job? I don't think I could hire it out, even if they said they'd do it for $1. I might be fibbing there, but on the other hand, I don't think I'd be quoted $1 for it, either.

And they'd have dinged you $150 for the $100 bracket, too. $100 for a dumb bracket. Less than $1 for the metal; a buck or two for engineering it; $10 for freight; $60 markup for the dealer; and the rest goes to Nissan.

If you'd hired the job out, you wouldn't have the stitches in your hand, I guess. But when you look at it from that angle, we probably shouldn't do anything ourselves for fear of possible injury. A lot of people choke on food, you know. Maybe we should just hire someone else to do our eating for us.
 
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