Re: JPOR: project update

[Jeff <jayers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey, I know this is late, but I am still trying to catch up on email
reading!  I just tore apart a '75 Ford HP front end and had a difficult
time removing one drum braked hub, but the spindles came out relatively
easily using a rubber hammer.  The offending hub got beat on enough to
take chunks of the drum out and totally smash the actual hub.  After
cutting holes in the hub to use the puller on, I snapped off about 3" of
the hub.  Eventually I built some brackets that bolt to the wheel studs,
some flat pieces that connect these brackets to the puller where the
jaws would bolt on, and a center tube to push against the end of the
spindle.  Then tighten the puller down till the screw is being driven
through a 3/16" steel piece before the bearings finally came off the
spindle!  The other side came right apart. :~)  Jeff

RICH SCHAEFER wrote:
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> my just bought "excellent condition" CJ had the same frozen spindles problem
> I beat the studs loose on the knuckle and spun on some old D30 spindles
> nuts. and beat the living hell out of the spindle to get it off. :-) lotsa
> metaphors on that one...
> 
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> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:48:52 -0400
> From: "BRERETON, John" <John_BRERETON@Montellna.com>
> Subject: RE: JPOR: project update
> 
> Sounds like things are at least moving forward.  They never move as fast as
> we anticipate though.
> 
> I started stripping the front end I got from a junk yard for my friends '74
> CJ.  The one locking hub was frozen so I gave up trying to save it and ended
> up using a tie rod fork and the trusty hammer to knock it off.  After
> smashing my thumb a few times and bellowing out a few colorful metaphors, it
> came off.  I guess that's what happens when you don't take care of the front
> end, the grease turns to glue.  After removing both of the bearing nuts, I
> realized that the assembly was kind of glued to the spindle as well.  After
> lots of liquid wrench, and banging, out came the old tie rod fork again
> (after all it worked before).  A few more blows to the end of the fork, and
> a few more blows to my thumb, it eventually came off.  Fortunately, the
> other side came off like clock work.  Those spindles are a pain though.  My
> buddy got the glorious task of beating them off, after all, it is his Jeep.
> Fortunately I had a block of UHMW polyethylene laying around.  Great stuff
> to have around.  Much tougher than wood, and it won't mar up the spindle.
> 
> At least you still have a chance to make your timeline.  I thought we would
> have this done by the end of August!  No chance now.
> 
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: moulton@ns.sympatico.ca [mailto:moulton@ns.sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 9:08 AM
> To: jeepoffroad@4x4wire.com
> Subject: JPOR: project update
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