I don't see why really ..
and do you want to remove a trailing arm with the beefy/heavy bearing
housing ( four 22 mm hex head bolts )
and the drum and backing plate, stub axle and flange all  still all
attached ?

you can, but the bare arm is a nicely manageable piece. It' not hard to
take that stuff apart.

Tell you what ..
with the alxe nut and the whole assembly on the van now , it's easy to
undo the big axle nut.

later ..unless you have a hyper strong impact gun ..
like 3/4 inch drive and 600 + ft lbs of torque ...
it could be quite hard holding that assembly well enough to undo the big
nut with a cheater bar.

thinp ahead.

On 6/28/2013 12:31 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
> Does the axle nut need to come off to remove the trailing arm? I see lots
> of references to that spread around the interwebs as well as how-to books.
>
> Just wondering.
>
> Jim
>