[Tigers] rear axle hub puller

[Jay]

Are Alpine hubs the same construction?  I recently had trouble getting the hubs off my Alpine.  No amount of tightening the center bolt would do it.  I tried heat. But not enough heat.  Then Dan Walters came by with his hub puller.  He had both of in less than 15 minutes, with less than 50 ft lbs.  Instead of tightening the center bolt, once that was set, he tightened each of the four outside rods, a little at a time. He said by using the outside bolts, there is more leverage, needing less torque.


> On Feb 18, 2022, at 6:21 PM, Larry Mayfield via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> So far all of the home made pullers I have seen, mine included, are lacking one essential component: the handle that is needed to counter the gorilla strength needed to tighten the center bolt to pop off the hub. Especially those with a central hub puller set up like a commercial puller.  Mine uses 4 grade 8, 7/16 UNC bolts to provide the grunt and so I never have to pull more than 45 ft- pounds on the torque wrench handle to get a hub to pop off.  But it would be nice to have a handle that could be braced against the floor during the torquing.  The goodness is that he hubs very seldom need to actually be removed.   Kudos to all who have fab’d their pullers!  Nice tool to have on the shelf.
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> Drmayf
> Aka Larry
> Pahrump
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> From: Tigers <tigers-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of Ron Fraser via Tigers
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2022 11:51 AM
> To: clydemclaughlin at verizon.net
> Cc: tigers at Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] rear axle hub puller
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> Clyde
>                 As I see it, conversations like this one are never closed.   New information and ideas are always welcome.
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> I would ask for some dimensions of your puller tool.
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> Steel plate looks like it is ½” thick?
> Size of the jack screw?
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> The tools shown in the Shop Manual look beefy so any tool someone makes needs to also be beefy.
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> Ron Fraser
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> From: Tigers <tigers-bounces at autox.team.net <mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net>> On Behalf Of clyde mclaughlin via Tigers
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2022 6:31 PM
> To: tigers at autox.team.net <mailto:tigers at autox.team.net>
> Subject: [Tigers] rear axle hub puller
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> I know the conversation about rear axle hub pullers was pretty well exhausted a couple weeks ago, I have recently moved and finally got this unpacked so I thought I would forward along a pix of the puller I made and it works perfectly, it has probably taken off a half dozen or so, the key is a strong plate with NO FLEX and the large jack screw, set this up put a really good strain on the jack screw and then smack it with a good hammer and BANG it pops off.
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