Oelmensch
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Skipped lunch so I could bag out of work an hour early, zipped to the pick-n-pull, and 8 bolts later I was holding a sweet used axle for $42. Smooth.
Big freaky axle socket was waiting for me when I got home. Surprise, it doesn't fit with the remains of the axle shaft cold-welded to the interior of the axle tube! Over an hour of knock-off-dremel sanding drum quality time later... and I'm remembering that the driver's side if left hand thread. I was going to have to do the dremel work anyways and will likely clean things up further before reassembly to make sure there is no drag on the center of the socket skewing the torque readings.
The tabbed index washer that the hub-nut interfaces with and does the whole click-mambo for getting the torque setting right, that no longer has anything that qualifies as a locating tab to keep it from rotating relative to the groove at 12o'clock. Instead the sad remains of the tab were hanging out lodged at about 5 o'clock and decided to stay there until I started negotiating with the chisel and hammer.
Once that got back around to 12 o'clock it came out with a reasonable amount of force and then the hub started raining bearing rollers and generally being annoying to move.
Well that's a good sign!
A few minutes later, after a handful more rollers fell out and some creative violence on my part, the hub came off.
The inner-race remains of the outer bearing and the inner hub surface of the inner bearings are both VERY good and stuck on the axle tube. Looks like MORE dremel time assuming the reciprocating saw can't just get things started unless my neighbor has an air-chisel to split them and speed things along.
More tomorrow. Or Friday, I might be busy tomorrow night.
Big freaky axle socket was waiting for me when I got home. Surprise, it doesn't fit with the remains of the axle shaft cold-welded to the interior of the axle tube! Over an hour of knock-off-dremel sanding drum quality time later... and I'm remembering that the driver's side if left hand thread. I was going to have to do the dremel work anyways and will likely clean things up further before reassembly to make sure there is no drag on the center of the socket skewing the torque readings.
The tabbed index washer that the hub-nut interfaces with and does the whole click-mambo for getting the torque setting right, that no longer has anything that qualifies as a locating tab to keep it from rotating relative to the groove at 12o'clock. Instead the sad remains of the tab were hanging out lodged at about 5 o'clock and decided to stay there until I started negotiating with the chisel and hammer.
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Once that got back around to 12 o'clock it came out with a reasonable amount of force and then the hub started raining bearing rollers and generally being annoying to move.
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Well that's a good sign!
A few minutes later, after a handful more rollers fell out and some creative violence on my part, the hub came off.
You must be registered for see images attach
You must be registered for see images attach
The inner-race remains of the outer bearing and the inner hub surface of the inner bearings are both VERY good and stuck on the axle tube. Looks like MORE dremel time assuming the reciprocating saw can't just get things started unless my neighbor has an air-chisel to split them and speed things along.
More tomorrow. Or Friday, I might be busy tomorrow night.
