The right front wheel on the '70 B I had at the time spun while
braking on an I-5 off-ramp to Santa Rosa, CA. That was in '84, during a
mostly-camping trip up the Pacific coast that began from Los Angeles and
ended at the mouth of the Columbia river. We had driven to LA from El
Paso, TX. I was lucky to find the knock-off nut in the dark. I put the
nut back on and crept to a motel for the night, went looking for a
repair shop that knew from MGs on a Saturday morning. We were even more
lucky to find a shop that was open, the guys knew what to do and were
able to find the parts at a junk yard. For a while there I thought I
might end up spending a week or so of precious vacation time in Santa
Rosa.
I might try the gear puller if driving the thing in a circle with the
nut loose doesn't work.
Cheers,
CR
David Breneman wrote:
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> I had a similar problem with a rear wheel on my 68 MGB. I was driving with a
> friend back from Palm Springs. While traversing the Grapevine going up I-5
> (or, as Californians say for some inexplicable reason, "The Five") the left
> rear wheel spun while braking. Try as we might, we could not get that wheel
> off, and on a Sunday afternoon in the middle of nowhere in 1978 no garages
> were open. So I put the knockoff on good and tight and we managed to drive
> all the way back to Tacoma without using the brakes above 10 MPH the whole
> way. I think I finally used a gear puller to get the wheel off. I didn't
> really care of I damaged it or the hub in the process since both obviously
> needed to be replaced. As I recall, I stuck a socket over the wheel bearing
> retaining nut to give the gear puller something to push against.
>
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