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Originally Posted by c-bass
Those aren't a puller type tool. You hammer on it with a sledge.
I watched a few videos of people removing the hub WITH the axle still attached, mind you it wasn't on an X5 but still seemed to do the trick with some really rusty bearings/hubs/axles.
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Yep I'm aware of the type of tool.
The situation I was dealing with was a "once in a lifetime" fused situation. I tried to pull the hub off the axle but it gave me the finger and laughed at me.
It took an estimated 35,000# to pull the axle and about 15,000# to pull the hub. Together= 50,000#.
The hammer on tool shown above holds two bolts. That can hold 32,000# (with X5 lugs) but you wouldn't want to subject your lug bolts to the sideways stress and if you use class 8.8 you get 24,000.
24k will take a hub out around an axle 90% of the time and like I said I was going to build nearly identical tool out of an old rotor (3-4 bolts and much stronger).
This thread is about how to deal with the 1 a lifetime m-fkr fused axle especially if the axle is not expendable