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Originally Posted by 80stech
Yes, hopefully you can get the dust cover back on. The amount of pressure needed to pull that off is not much. Really next time you should get an axle puller that threads into the hub wheel stud holes and pushes the axle through the hub. Hammering it through is not the answer either because that can be hard on the bearing. A puller tool to pull the axle back through is nice to have as well.
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Lesson learned ... I definitely wouldn't use the three-jaw puller again. Is there a particular axle puller tool that you use for this task and is it something BMW-specific? And is there any worry of destroying the threads on the studs or hub? I was surprised at how much force it took to get the axle out. It was a real bear.
Interestingly, all of the DIY writeups and videos I looked at either hammer the axle out of the hub (the vast majority seem to take this approach) or use a puller. Looking at it now, I don't know how someone could use a puller of the type I did without f-ing up that dust cover.
The Bentley manual recommends pulling the whole steering knuckle and driveshaft out together and pressing it out, which seems unnecessarily complicated.
Thanks very much,
Chris