Similar to Peter I used of the the flanges of a broken half shaft before I
got my puller. Now I use the ace hub nut spanner I got from Bob Gilll
and use the puller to press against that (a tyre lever would work also
but the hub spanner sits there without hands on when you sit the "handle"
part over the axle tube and the "ring" sitting above the axle tube supported
by two wheel studs).
BTW Evangelos, when you have to put the hub back on, I use the thrust
side of a roller bearing (smaller from the front suspension) and with a flat
plate over the top, gently tap it in with a hammer.
Remember that if the bearing is fairly easy to put in the hub you should
use some loctite retaining compound.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott <toobmany@bigpond.com>
To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, 5 June 1999 22:23
Subject: Re: rear hub pulling question
>What I do is to reverse the half shaft onto the studs so the long spiky bit
>pokes outwards. A couple of wheel nuts can then be threaded onto the studs
>and alternately tightened. The hub will then gently be drawn off the axle
>tube and the half shaft makes a conventient hub handle.
>
>Peter
>
>----------
>From: Evangelos G. Makris <emakris@hol.gr>
>To: spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: rear hub pulling question
>Date: Friday, 4 June 1999 11:50
>
>I am trying to remove the rear hubs on a Sprite with solid wheels.
>
>Could you please tell me what the central bolt of the "generic
>hub puller" should lever against? Is this a "special" tool or
>is there some practical and easy way around it?
>
>After all, there is only fresh air at the centre of the hub...
>
>Thank you
>Evangelos
>
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