Rats... I mangled my note in the final edit....
It should have read like so...
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 the hub and the trailing arm. After
the beating, I had
John Esposito check out the hubs for a possible rebuild, but 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
Don Malling wrote:
> 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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