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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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