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Originally Posted by foodmanry
Yikes....you may be SOL. It sounds like you cross-threaded it. When you put it on were you able to thread it on by hand easily? Were the threads intact? not chaffed or worn down? If you had to use a wrench to put it back on then most likely you cross-threaded the nut.
I would get a pipe and a longer breaker bar along with just PB blaster. Spray the PB blaster on the nut, let it sit about 10 minutes then grab a friend and go to town on it. Hopefully you can get it off even if it's cross-threaded. The only bummer is that might need a new axle if it's cross-thread.
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like you said, def SOL - soaked it in PB blaster and still didn't help. The spindle nut was overtighten by hand.
Anyhow, took the car to a local station, the mechanic put a high torque impact wrench to it and was finally able to get it off BUT not without damaging the the threads to the spindle shaft. So in addition to replacing the bearing, I had to replace the CV shaft and wheel hub as well. Mechanic screwed up wheel hub when he was trying to pull the inner bearing race off by using an air cut-off wheel and chisel. He missed and started cutting in to the mating surface of the hub to the bearing - I didn't even noticed it until i bought him a new wheel hub. Always lesson leaned for myself - don't bring car to mechanic if you can do the work yourself because they tend to work fast and not use the appropriate tool to salvage potentially good parts for you.
btw - hub costs $150 + tax from Nissan stealership.
Anyhow, car seems to run good now - no more loose wheel.