As for using a churchhill hub puller. . .there's two things. . .
First of all . .I'd need to install the wheel studs. :-)
Second of all . . . When I did this same job a number of years ago . . I took
it to someone with a chuchhill tool . . and it wouldn't reach all the way down
to the hub . . I'd have needed a spacer in there.
Maybe my hub was just weird.
Does anyone have first hand experience doing this job with a churchill tool?
(remember. . . Solid axle hub. . not the IRS hub)
I did finally get the hub off. . .it took a 50 ton press. . and it was
straining to do the job. There was quite a boom as the axle shaft shot out.
When I did it that time. . I supported it by the plates under the edges of the
hub. . .but the problem was that the peined over backs of the wheel studs sort
of got in the way and didn't give me a large surface to distribute the force
across.
I think the face of that hub is slighly bent (concaveish) from the experience.
Which is why I was asking about supporting it by the flange that bolts to the
axle tube. (It is the later variety one with a 6 bolt pattern.)
I was considering finding a BIG plate and putting a hole in the middle large
enough for the axle shaft, but small enough that there's still be metal
supporting the hub all the way around. . . The idea being a distributed force
across a circular area in closer to the taper rather than way out at opposite
ends of the hub.
It just seemed like that much force on that thin a hub, that far from the
center wasn't the right way to do it.
I'd really hate to screw up another hub. . .
Scott Tilton
TR6 in Leesburg with a cold side wind blowing past the window seals.
BRRRR
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