Thread: Some Hub Problems

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I just took off my hub on the drivers side today and i was trying to get out the inner/outer race and i was using a simple flat head and a hammer and they wouldn't budge. Just wanted to know fast and simple ways to get them out????

you want never get them out hitting on the screw driver handle, you need a punch or something more solid.

A long blunt nosed punch is one way. Keep tapping around the perimeter of the race until it squarely pops out. Probably someone will have a better way, but this works for me.


Don

The right way - or should I say, the correct was, is to press them out with a bearing press. But, I have almost always used a good, stout steel drift punch about ten inches long - gives you a bit of length to hang onto, and knocked them out. I use a piece of three inch pipe, and set the hub front side (first, because it is the smaller race) down in it, and start pecking from the backside. Just use small, firm whacks, and work in a cross pattern all the way around the race, until it pops out. Be careful not to "cock" it, because that will mess up the hub for the new race to go back into.

Putting the new one in, use a brass hammer, and a brass drift, so you don't mess the new race up.