Rear Hub Removal

Post by **Dominic** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:40 pm

Hi folks

Spent a pleasant day in the sun - removing the half-shaft and rear hub. The problem was a seeping oil seal, allowing the brakes to become contaminated.
Removing the hub was fun... there was nothing for the central screw to bear against on the puller that I have.
I found a solution however. An old inlet valve fits perfectly into the end of the axle housing. An ordinary bog-standard puller works well with this.
Another solution I found - to change the oil seal lip position slightly, I trimmed a gasket from a set I had knocking about, which has pushed the oil seal away from the shoulder by about 1mm, thus allowing "virgin metal" to bear on the seal lip.
Testing time tomorrow!
Dom

Post by **bmcecosse** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:30 pm

Hub usually just pulls off by hand - sometimes need to put wheel on and use that as a lever to wiggle it off.

Post by **Dominic** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:12 pm

I obviously hadn't eaten enough tins of spinach recently!

Post by **bigginger** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:27 pm

They pretend it's girders, but hubs are what Irn Bru is REALLY made from

Post by **bmcecosse** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 7:58 am

Well done getting the spelling right! In fact it's made from the nuts and bolts and lumps of rust that fall off the Forth Rail Bridge's girders !

Post by **Alec** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:42 am

Hello Dom,

there is another way, although I have not tried it personally, which is to reverse the half shaft and bolt it back onto the hub, tighten the wheel nuts and the dome on the half shaft bears against the axle tube, tighten some more and the hub should pull off. As BMCE says, they are not a tight fit.

Alec

Post by **Dominic** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:07 pm

As they say Alec - there's more than 1 way to skin a cat (or a Moggie!)

Post by **bmcecosse** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:56 pm

I would worry that the half-shaft end may damage the end of the axle case!

Post by **FlyingScot** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:56 pm

I did mine today, driver's side. I used the brake drum, reversed, as a sort of slide hammer. Worked a treat.
Loosening the hub nut was the hardest part.
Steve.

Post by **jojax64** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:40 pm

Going to tackle the rear NS wheel bearing/half shaft seals this week. One question, is it necessary to remove the backplate and disconnect the brake pipe prior to hub removal?

Post by **alex_holden** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 2:07 pm

jojax64 wrote:Going to tackle the rear NS wheel bearing/half shaft seals this week. One question, is it necessary to remove the backplate and disconnect the brake pipe prior to hub removal?

No.

Post by **simmitc** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:48 pm

Going to tackle the rear NS wheel bearing/half shaft seals this week. One question, is it necessary to remove the backplate and disconnect the brake pipe prior to hub removal?

Thankfully no