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Originally Posted by Overboost
I was very mindful of that. I just turned each 45mm lug (multi individualized 14mm puller  ) 45 degress at a time, constantly monitoring the torque and process. |
You had the benefit of having more lugs and maybe 1/10th or 1/20th the force to remove. When I did my first front bearing the bolts mushroomed pretty bad and I had to use angle grinder to cone the ends before I could remove the bolts from the hub. I'm curious how much force it takes to pull the bearing apart. It's not insignificant based on mushriming hardened bolts and bending the hardened steel plates I used between hub and knuckle.
The last one I did I used a slide hammer but I only did that because I was also about to replace the ball joints attached to the knuckle. I don't like to hammer on the knuckle.
Which I don't have a problem with for the rear axle with the caveat of REMOVE the abs sensor. I killed the abs sensor with the slide hammer impacts. It "sorta worked" but threw errors regularly after the bearing job. (to be fair it's also possible the new bearing just didn't pair nice with the old sensor)