61farnham Posted October 1, 2015 Report Posted October 1, 2015 (edited) In the middle of renewing my rear axle seals and I'd thought I'd show some pics of how I got the brake drum off after reading lots of posts here of people having trouble. I used a proper five legged puller but instead of a BFH and lots of pounding I put a breaker bar/socket on the puller with a 4 foot scaffold tube over that and with a little leaning it popped off nicely. I left the axle nut on loosely to to stop it all flying across the workshop and also put a wrecking bar thru the puller and resting on the floor to stop the drum rotating . The last pic shows the piece of plastic pipe I made up to remove the halfshaft after reading on here that somebody had done something similar, sorry I can't remember who posted that but I'm grateful they did. Once the piece of pipe, about 2" long, is in place with the brake plate removed I just put the brake drum back/axle nut back on and by tightening the nut against the drum it pulls the axle/bearing out from the housing. Nice mess Piece of plastic pipe in place Edited October 1, 2015 by 61farnham 1 Quote
Don Coatney Posted October 1, 2015 Report Posted October 1, 2015 With that much leverage you are lucky the front wheel did not come off the ground 1 Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted October 1, 2015 Report Posted October 1, 2015 (edited) I've done all of that before...plus some...200 lbs of raging mad animal bounding on the cheater bar...still no amount of give at all..but I will admit that it was on a Volvo rendition of the Dana axle setup.. Edited October 1, 2015 by Plymouthy Adams Quote
Don Coatney Posted October 1, 2015 Report Posted October 1, 2015 I've done all of that before...plus some...200 lbs of raging mad animal bounding on the cheater bar...still no amount of give at all..but I will admit that it was on a Volvo rendition of the Dana axle setup.. Reminds me of rigging a cherry picker to work beyond design limits. Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted October 1, 2015 Report Posted October 1, 2015 thanks for reminding me of a nightmare...not quite so bad as the cherry picker incident...that was an accident just awaiting to happen and it cared not as to whom it would befall...hey!..you got to admit I held out for safety on that all the way... Quote
Don Coatney Posted October 1, 2015 Report Posted October 1, 2015 It was not only you who held out with safety concerns. And you are correct that was a nightmare. Somehow I lost a freshly rebuilt fuel pump in that chapter but that was minor compared to the next several chapters. Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted October 1, 2015 Report Posted October 1, 2015 I seem to recall back to back fuel pump episodes in "The many lives of Don Coatney" Quote
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