I'll not be much help. The local British shop owner BROKE his twelve ton
press trying to get mine apart. I don't think he wants to see me again.
;-) He ended up cutting the bearings off the other end and replacing them
to get at the seals. But it doesn't leak now!
Michael
St. Louis, U.S.A. or thereabouts
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Pete & Aprille Chadwell wrote:
>
> I was trying to split apart the side flange assemblies tonight so that I
> could replace the seals, but I cannot get the flanges to come loose from
> the shaft. I work at a community college here in Bend, Oregon, and tonight
> I was up there in the auto shop facility, and one of the instructors was
> helping me. He put the assembly in a press, supported the drive flange
> properly, (and yes, the nut is removed!) and then applied several TONS (I
> think he went as high as 10 or 12 tons) of pressure to the assembly and
> still it would not come apart.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions or warnings about how to do this or,
> maybe more importantly, how NOT to do this?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Pete Chadwell
> 1973 TR6
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