Now that I know my rear spindles fit properly I decided to remove the hubs and knock out those Mustang studs and put in the Cobra studs. Actually, truth be told I overlooked that step when I first installed the spindles but thats ok because it goes with my new build modus operandi of "do it wrong the first time but keep going back and redoing it!"

I thought about not removing the hubs and just banging away at those studs. I mean, it couldn't be any more traumatic to the rear end than say sliding sideways into a curb at 40mph?? Also, this gives me a chance to really observe the relationship of the CV axle to the spindle and more importantly what a ABS sensor is looking at (another discussion).

My 11yo joined me in the shop but he quickly tired of my antics and decided crushing rocks in the bench vise was much more fun.

I struggled a bit at first because I had previously torqued the bolts with red locktite and with the CV axle in place there wasn't room for a 1/2" socket, I had to use my 3/8" socket with less leverage. After wrestling around with it for a while I realized that I own a 3/8" right angle pneumatic driver! Awesome!



Like everybody talks about in the threads knocking out the old studs with a hammer is pretty easy but putting in the new ones is challenging. I had thought this through quit a bit so instead of trying to bang in the new studs I went straight to my high impact wrench(700 ft/lbs or torque) as seen the the photos and pulled them in using the lug nut and washers shown. I don't remember what I paid for that high impact wrench but I absolutely love it, it is so useful. It pulled each stud in in about 15 seconds each.





The thing that gets me is that in the manual it talks about torquing the wheel studs to 98 ft/lb, however, I'm not sure that matters after I just finished using 700 ft/lbs to pull them in... I was concerned that I might fracture the studs pulling them in that way so I was careful to stop as soon as they seated. No problems.

Now, ABS sensors. I am really interested in ABS. Clueless how to do it, but reading up on it. What I do know is that the sensors need to sense a spline type of ring. My front hubs have the ring but I'm not sure how it works in the rear. Here are photos.

This is the PS, I don't see anything.



This is DS, I see something for the sensor.



Whatever. I am going to start a separate thread about ABS to try to get more input from forum members.