Removal of the rear axle hub bearing: I DID IT!!!

I was thinking the only remaining way would be to ask the professional shop to remove the bearing if I couldn't remove the bearing with this method.

I didn’t have a confidence. But, on the other hand, I felt it might work well because last night I had a dream that the bearing was removed.

This time I changed my strategy. I tried to pull the bearing from the spline side (differential gear side) of the axle shaft.

To do that I needed the special puller that had the long arms with 60cm length. How should I do???

After thinking for a while I went to the DIY hardware store near my house and purchased long threaded rods and long bolts to extend the puller arms. I found them at the construction materials section and total costs was 700JPY. My new strategy was to make the “special long arms puller” using these parts.

At first I fixed the axle shaft by a vice. Then, I set the “special long arms puller” on the bearing and tightened the puller’s screw. I knew that the long threaded rod was not strong enough, but I thought those could somehow withstand the pulling force.

I struggled because the puller’s screw was very tight and the puller was twisted when I tightened the puller screw.

At the first trial the contact point of puller and axle shaft was not stable enough, so the puller was inclined when I tightened the puller screw. In order to avoid this I attached the unnecessary socket at the top of the axle shaft.

I did the second trial…the puller screw was still very tight but I tightened the puller screw with full power….

Then, suddenly I felt the shock and the screw tightening became loose.

Oh! I did??? I looked the bearing and found that the bearing was finally removed! Yeah!!! ☺︎☺︎☺︎☺︎☺︎

So, after 1 month struggling I was finally succeeded to remove the bearing from the axle shaft!!!

(My original blog was written on 19th Jul. 2008)

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