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Old 01-22-2021, 09:42 PM
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Awesome made my day.

I have a great post about to make in a new thread how to beat an axle out without damage that is completely rusted to the hub.

I made a special tool out of the center of a rotor to use as a plate to push between the rotor and axle with my 31 ton bearing press jig.

Spoiler alert: the center of a rotor cannot handle over about 12-15T



That was both fortunate and unfortunate.

Unfortunate because I broke my new tool that took 15 minutes of angle grinding to make on the very first use.

Fortunate because the pieces turned out to be spot on perfect to use to help pull off the hub once I finally got the axle to move.



Here's the jig with (5) M12-1.5x70 bolts into the hub and a very special 10" Milwaukee adjustable wrench that not only miraculously opens to 1.5" to fit the nut, not even 12" normally will fit but magically fit around the lug bolt substitutes.



The bolt had to go in last and between the screw of the adjustment jaw and the handle! About 3mm to spare.
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