Hi Ron,
I had similar problems removing the hub and backing plate from the trailing
arm, however in my case
I had removed the entire trailing arm assembly. It was on the workbench and
easy to get at.
On the advice of another list member, I separated the the rear axles at the
spline, and beat on the
end of the male spline with a rubber mallet. I beat on it hard. It eventually
came out of the
trailing arm. There was corrosion between for a possible rebuild. They were
perfect as is, so the
beating with the rubber mallet did them no harm.
In regards to removing the rubber bushings, I used a cheapo Harbor Freight 3
jaw gear puller. Again
on the advice of another list member (It was Vance I think). It works very very
well. They come
right out. No problem at all. So easy, it made me feel like I knew what I was
doing :-)
Don Malling
>
> Ron wrote:
> rmweber_99@yahoo.com(ronald weber) Date: Hub Removal
> Well, I've become totally frustrated trying to use the Clymer manual for
> my TR6. I'm trying to remove the trailing arm with no success. The
> manual shows a TR4 live axle disassembly as well as a GT6 assembly and
> mentions something about other models being similar. I don't think so!
> I'm trying to remove the rear trailing arm to replace the bushings and I
> can't figure out how to remove the shaft/hub assembly from the trailing
> arm. I've read somewhere about how the entire axle assembly can be
> removed through the trailing arm with little effort after removing the
> 1/2 dozen Nylok nuts (by the way, are these grade 2 or 5 nuts?) but
> can't seem to figure out how. I'm a little cautious here since I've seen
> previous posts about horror stories resulting in mangled hubs.
> Any guidance is appreciated. Here is a rough link to where I'm at in the
> disassembly... http://home.comcast.net/~ronald.weber/images/rear_hub.jpg
> By the way, I searched the archives and came across a tool-less spring
> removal thread that numerous people contributed to. It worked great!
> Thanks!
> Ron W.
> 1971 TR6
> CC50468E
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