[Tigers] Replacing rear axle bearings (Terry Lawell)

[Tom Parker]

Nice! Years ago I tried a "hub puller" and had it so tight my biggest
wrench wouldn't go any more. No movement, so I went to dinner. The "bang"
that brought me back was the hub hitting the garage wall @ 3 ft away when
the "pull" exceeded the "stick."


Tom, '67 Mark 2

On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 3:48 PM Ramon Spontelli via Tigers <
tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:

> 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:
>
>    1.
>
>    Jack up the car and remove the wheel.
>    2.
>
>    Remove the brake drum.
>    3.
>
>    Pull the cotter pin and back the axle/hub nut off ‘till it’s flush
>    with the end of the axle.
>    4.
>
>    Screw the four coupling nuts half-way onto the four wheel studs:
>
>
>    5.
>
>    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.
>
>
>    6.
>
>    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.
>    7.
>
>    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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