bigbob

Today I started disassembling my front suspension to go from the DJM lower arms to a set of McGaughy's spindles. I got stuck when it came time to remove the bearing hub assemblies from the oem spindles. After removing the three bolts and trying several useless attempts, the hubs are still in the spindles. Any suggestions on removing them without killing the bearings?

slamdlsx

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rubber mallet?

JoeyGC5

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On my 167k mile truck I had to put the bolts loosely threaded back into the hub and beat the dogsnot out of them with a rubber mallet.

01WS6/tamu

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BMFH presto out poppa da bearing assembly

bigbob

You guys must be living charmed lives. I have a some BMFH's in both sledge and "Lixie" soft face persuasions. I tried the bolts in back and zip, zero, nada!
I'm getting reddy to use a piece-o-pipe to go in from the back side and press them out, but with my luck, something will pay the price, and then so will I for new bearings. Everyone I call seems to be no help. They all remove them for replacement and don't worry if they kill the old bearing ***'y in the replacement process.

To be continued...

bullygoat

You could cut the spindle with a grinder if you're never going to use it again.

bigbob

That has been considered

262_NBS

Bolt the wheel back onto the hub and leave the three hub mounting bolts backed out a few threads?


Drop the truck down and the weight might budge the hub. Possibly turn the steering wheel side to side.......I dunno?

Had a similar experience trying to get a frozen rotor removed from a hub on an 02 Sierra but wound up replacing the rotor and hub. Later I flipped the two around and hammered the rotor while standing on it until the two separated.