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Re: Re: Rear hubs

To: Atwell Haines <carbuff@nac.net>, OneTimeCRX@aol.com,
Subject: Re: Re: Rear hubs
From: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 10:14:37
Atwell, I did not do this.  Do you have to pull this to replace the rear
bearings?  Where can you obtain one of these tools, Can a machine shop do
this work for you?  What does TSSC stand for?  Thanks again.

Patrick

At 09:03 AM 1/7/99 -0500, Atwell Haines wrote:
>At 08:32 AM 1/7/99, Bowen, Patrick A. RP2 wrote:
>>Henry, I apologize but I did not quite catch what you meant for a hub
>>puller in your original post.  Could someone explain what we are talking
>>about and how it works for me.  I just overhauled (not a complete rebuild)
>>on my rear suspension and don't remember needing this (just needed a big
>>hammer).  Did I miss something.
>
>Patrick,
>
>The hub puller is needed to remove the wheel and brake mountings on the
>tapered part of the rear axle.  (ref. Vicky Brit catalogue Page 130, item
>18 on the right column) Failure to use the tool could result in a damaged
>or out of true axle or flange (according to past posts).
>
>Did you ever remove the large nut on the end of the axle on your car?  When
>I did, a week of soaking in penetrant and using pullers failed to remove
>the flange.  It popped off in 30 seconds using a buddy's TSSC tool.
>
>Atwell Haines
>'79 Spitfire
>
>
Patrick Bowen
'79 Spitfire
Jacksonville FL

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