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Re: Dismantling U-Joints

To: dirty_howi@hotmail.com, taylor@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com, triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Dismantling U-Joints
From: Keith Taylor <taylor@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 20:35:18 -0800 (PST)
Thanks to all who responded! 

I've got two of the U-joints dismantled. Four more to go. The 
sockets/C-clamp, plus additional banging with the mallet did the trick. 

-Keith

> use the old socket trick, one socket that has an od smaller than the 
> bearing cap and another socket with an id larger than the opposite 
> bearing cap, put the smaller one in one side and the larger one on the 
> other side and use either a vice (bench press for you old machineists) 
> or a 6 inch c-clamp to push the bearing cap out the other side. hitting
> them only causes sore thumbs and frustration.
>
> larry

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