Do you need air tool to get the axle nut off? I can't get mine to budge using a socket and mallet.

 

Put the rotor on, put a screw driver it a slot and turn it up against the knuckle, use big breaker bar and grunt. Hit it with some PB blaster too.

 

1/2 impact will zip it right off.

At home I've used cheater bars.
Just watch it in case something breaks. Take your face off lol

 

NO impact, that's the problem. Been hitting it wd 40 and breaker bar and mallet, ready to throw in the towel for the night.

 

Eat some wheaties and try in the morning.

 

Pb blaster ftw! I had my 200lb dad standing on a 3ft extension bouncing multiple times before mine broke free... Sometimes they're difficult!

 

I had my son stand on the brake pedal and I used a 3/4" drive 2' breaker bar from HF and a jackhandle cheaterbar. Come right off

 

I put it in 4wd, took off the tire and castle nut/pin, slipped on the axle socket, got my 4ft bar over the ratchet, and it came right off. #win

 

I like the 4wd idea, with rear tires chalked, shouldn't move... But my front DS was out when I did it so had to use the brakes.

 

Any stubborn nut like that if I don't have an impact tool near me, I do this:

Place the appropriate sized socket on a breaker bar, on the nut on the correct side to loosen it (usually means handle on the "right side"), get a floor jack.

I then pull up on the breaker bar to get all the "slack" out of the handle and socket. Keep tension on the handle, no slack.

Then pump away at your floor jack under the end of the breaker bar and badda-bing, the jack does the work. Sometimes I'll still put a breaker bar on the handle, and in the axle case, I believe I put a LARGE screwdriver through the wheel studs and rested the handle on a jack stand, so when you pull up on the breaker bar, the screwdriver through the studs/jack stand prevent the hub from turning.

I have air tools now but that helped me in the past.

 

I used my electric impact and had no issues. Without it I would suggest this:

Min 2ft breaker bar for the nut
Wrecking or pry bar through the U joints yoke to keep the axle from turning
Liquid Wrench Rust Penetrant, Kroil, or PB Blaster (WD-40 isn't a penetrating oil)
Heat the nut with propane or MAPP torch

 

Take your wheel off, remove cap and pin, put wheel back on, lower jeep down, chock the wheel, put socket on with a large cheater and heave