[Healeys] Rear Axle Hub Removal

[BJ8Healeys]

You can also remove the hub by reversing the axle shaft with the head
against the end of the axle housing and using the 5 nuts to pull it out.  It
will only go so far before you run out of threads, so you have to remove the
axle and put something between the head and the end of the rear axle housing
to pull it off far enough to wiggle it free.  I use a special tool I
modified from a scrap helicopter part (photo attached).  The tapered part
goes inside the axle housing, with the head of the axle bearing on the
U-shape.  Any object that would function similar to this one would work.

Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
AHCA Delegate at Large
Havelock, NC  


-----Original Message-----
From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bob
Haskell
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 6:04 AM
To: Michael MacLean; Healey List
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Rear Axle Hub Removal

Mike,

To remove the hub, use a 3 arm gear puller with a center piece piloted on
the axle.  I don't like the idea of applying impact loads from a slide
hammer to bearings.

I bought a 12 point, 3/4" drive, Williams socket and used my lathe to remove
the chamfer.  The steel was soft enough to cut; didn't need to grind.  I
also have the Churchill 8 sided factory tool.  It has a pilot that fits in
the axle which is nice.  In my old age, I can't always generate enough
torque to loosen the nut with the factory tool.  Could make a longer rod.

Remember, the nut on the right hand side has left hand threads.  There is
usually "RH" or "LH" stamped on one side of the nut near "MOWOG".  Of
course, that side is probably not facing out.

Cheers,

Bob Haskell
AHCA 3000 MkI registrar
http://www.ciahc.org/registry_3000mk1.php

On 09/05/2017 06:01 PM, Michael MacLean wrote:
> OK, figured out how to get bearing hub off rear axle with a bearing 
> flange and slide hammer.  Is the hub nut 2 3/16ths?  Is there a socket 
> available without the chamfer around the mouth of the socket so I can 
> get it on that thin nut?  Do you guys just buy a 2 3/16ths socket and 
> grind the mouth flat?  The nuts on my axle are all buggered up from 
> someone in the past using a chisel to get them off and put them back on.
> Mike MacLean
> 
> 
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