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[oletrucks] Removing the axle pins and other sundry questions

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Subject: [oletrucks] Removing the axle pins and other sundry questions
From: "Carlos F. Madero" <amigos@esn.net>
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 99 19:40:53 PST
Greetings,
Are there any alternative ways to drive the pins out of the front axle?.  I am 
using a brass drift (0.75" diam) and a heavy hammer ( 3 lb?)as suggested in the 
manual.  My right arm is very sore, the brass drift is mushrooming on both ends 
and if the pin hardly moved.  (Yes, I removed the cross-pins). My "Plan B" was 
to remove the whole axle (at that point it only involved removing the 8 nuts 
that hold it to the springs), but those nuts must have been there a long time, 
using a cheater bar I was able to turn it one of them a little bit, but I am 
afraid I am twisting the bolt. 

Thank you.

Carlos Madero

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