<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Terry,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you can get your hands on an Alpine rear hub, you can make a puller to easily pop those hubs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here are the parts I used:</div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><p style="margin-bottom: 0in" class=""><font face="Arial, serif" class="">One
used Alpine rear axle hub</font></p>
</li><li class=""><p style="margin-bottom: 0in" class=""><font face="Arial, serif" class="">Four
used 2-1/2 to 3-inch wheel studs, or you could just use four pieces 7/16 x 20 threaded rod</font></p>
</li><li class=""><p style="margin-bottom: 0in" class=""><font face="Arial, serif" class="">Four
used Alpine/Tiger lug nuts</font></p>
</li><li class=""><p style="margin-bottom: 0in" class=""><font face="Arial, serif" class="">Four
new 1-1/4-inch 7/16 x 20 coupling nuts, purchased at Ace Hardware @
$4.69 each (OUCH!)</font></p>
</li></ul><p style="margin-bottom: 0in" class="">I took pictures:</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="2AD525D4-2922-4A84-B441-8FCA50685CD0" src="cid:0A913489-1F93-47A6-806B-F032317ADF25" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="9A454B48-8B55-448B-9BBD-273C67BB5257" src="cid:8DB1C08F-070C-477A-9719-788361E4626B" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in" class=""><font face="Arial, serif" class="">Piece
o’ cake:</font></p><div class=""><ol class=""><li class=""><p style="margin-bottom: 0in" class=""><font face="Arial, serif" class="">Jack
up the car and remove the wheel.</font></p>
</li><li class=""><p style="margin-bottom: 0in" class=""><font face="Arial, serif" class="">Remove
the brake drum.</font></p>
</li><li class=""><p style="margin-bottom: 0in" class=""><font face="Arial, serif" class="">Pull
the cotter pin and back the axle/hub nut off ‘till it’s flush
with the end of the axle.</font></p>
</li><li class=""><p style="margin-bottom: 0in" class=""><font face="Arial, serif" class="">Screw
the four coupling nuts half-way onto the four wheel studs:</font></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="252D74E5-0755-4781-90C1-6371D920BEEB" src="cid:629343F0-0AD3-427C-A7F8-10A6A0D53D46" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
</li><li class=""><p style="margin-bottom: 0in" class=""><font face="Arial, serif" class="">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.</font></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="A54051CB-AA80-4781-A1ED-7045B025891F" src="cid:D4684763-A79E-4470-AED0-CEE76AF38422" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
</li><li class=""><p style="margin-bottom: 0in" class=""><font face="Arial, serif" class="">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. </font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in" class=""><font face="Arial, serif" class="">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.</font></p>
</li><li class=""><p style="margin-bottom: 0in" class=""><font face="Arial, serif" class="">Miller
time!</font></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></li></ol></div></div><div>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.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Don’t forget to pop the cotter pin and loosen the axle nut.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>And remember the jack stands when you lift the car.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Good luck with it.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Ramon</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><div class="">On Feb 5, 2022, at 10:48 AM, Terry Lawell <<a href="mailto:tlawell@austin.rr.com" class="">tlawell@austin.rr.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">I thank everyone for their inputs. I will start on it in a couple of <br class="">weeks once things warm up here. I will try the traditional method to <br class="">pull the hub and go from there. I am sure it will be fun.<br class=""><br class="">Terry<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>