Front Wheel Bearing Lock Nut

Afternoon,

Horrible noise from the front wheel and when checked the bearing is shot so, got the new one, took the free hub off, nice and easy so far, then I am about to take the large lock nut off, yes I bent back the locking washer, but it will not budge, using a cheapy spanner as due to the axel sticking out I can not get a socket on it and used a bar through it, pushed till the bar bent.

What am I missing? Surely a lock nut can not be that tight and it has been sat in oil so I am at a loss.

Any ideas?

Might just be tight - silly question, you are turning it anticlockwise? they aren't handed. The get-out-of -jail method is to take a sharp cold chisel, place it on the corner of the nut at an angle and hit it with a big hammer. It might bugger the locknut but it should shock it off.

or you could just buy the correct socket they arent dear

They can get tight,bearing may have heated it up as it gave up.Split it like oxides say's.

I wasn't suggesting splitting it, just knocking it off with a hammer and chisel! Hit the corner at a tangent and it will come off. I did this for years before I got round to buying the correct box spanner...

....as, obviously, the previous owners did!

Thanks for suggestions, I feel a chisel and hammer lesson coming. May also order a new lock but and box socket for when I arse this up.

As suggested already there is a special box spanner for this job. They're not expensive. It gives even torque all round the nut. Can't remember the torque setting but its odd it's so tight.

Have known them to be very tight if the bearing has overheated.