[Tigers] Replacing rear axle bearings (Terry Lawell)

[Ramon Spontelli]

Terry,

If you can get your hands on an Alpine rear hub, you can make a puller to easily pop those hubs.

Here’s the poop on it, copied and pasted from an e-mail message I sent to Dan Walters after building mine in November, 2019.

Up ’til then, I used to beg/borrow/rent a really honkin’ heavy-duty puller that Dan had fabricated for his own use.  This time, since it was a discretionary project, I had time to think if there was any way to apply the principles of Dan’s puller without all the machine work he’d done. The “solution” employed a used Alpine rear hub.

Here are the parts I used:
One used Alpine rear axle hub
Four used 2-1/2 to 3-inch wheel studs, or you could just use four pieces 7/16 x 20 threaded rod
Four used Alpine/Tiger lug nuts
Four new 1-1/4-inch 7/16 x 20 coupling nuts, purchased at Ace Hardware @ $4.69 each (OUCH!)
I took pictures:






Piece o’ cake:
Jack up the car and remove the wheel.
Remove the brake drum.
Pull the cotter pin and back the axle/hub nut off ‘till it’s flush with the end of the axle.
Screw the four coupling nuts half-way onto the four wheel studs:



Use the long wheel studs or threaded rods to mount the Alpine hub onto the four coupling nuts.  Screw them in until they bottom out on the Tiger wheel studs inside the coupling nuts.



Snug up the four lug nuts to bring the Alpine hub up against and perpendicular to the end of the axle, and evenly apply torque to the lug nuts—rotating, one at a time-- ‘til the Tiger hub hub pops off the axle. 
What you are doing here is trying to squeeze the two hubs together.  But they can’t come together because the end of the axle is in the way.  For them to come together, the Tiger hub that’s stuck on the axle has to come off the axle.
Miller time!

If you go for it, don’t forget you are putting the small-hole end of the Alpine hub toward the small-hole end of the Tiger hub, and the axle.

Don’t forget to pop the cotter pin and loosen the axle nut.

And remember the jack stands when you lift the car.

Good luck with it.

Ramon






On Feb 5, 2022, at 10:48 AM, Terry Lawell <tlawell at austin.rr.com> wrote:

I thank everyone for their inputs. I will start on it in a couple of 
weeks once things warm up here. I will try the traditional method to 
pull the hub and go from there. I am sure it will be fun.

Terry


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