> I recently had my front end looked at by a restoration shop and was told
> that the stub axles needed replacement. The cost would be dependent on
> getting the old axles out of the vertical links. If they can't
> get them out
> they'd have to order new vertical links. I was thinking of
> tackling this as
> a winter project and am wondering what problems you folks have run into
> removing worn stub axles? Is replacing them a difficult job?
Getting the old one out is the hard part, as your shop says. I've only done
one, and it was on a TR3A (which should be substantially similar). After
removing the nut, I stacked some pipe nipples over the stub axle, and
screwed a common hardware store nut (not the original castellated nut) onto
the threads on the end as tight as I dared. I then supported the whole
thing on the jaws of my vise, and gave the other end of the stub axle
several healthy blows from a BFH before it popped apart. Old axle was
ruined from the blows of course, but it wasn't any good when I started
either.
Randall
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