help removing the rear hubs

[fearlessphil]

im wanting to take all the components off my trailing arms so i can get them blasted but i cant get the hub off the axle then after thatr i need to get the axel out? any tips?

[fearlessphil]

i had a look in the wiki and couldnt see anything?

You need to remove the side shaft first

do you mean drive shaft? i thought that they would have come off after removing the nut holding the hub on but no joy all seems seized together solid

[suedenim]

I use a bearing seperator like the link below. I take the brakes off and clamp the half shells behind the hub and then drive the hub out by tightening some long bolts with the same thread as the hub against the puller. No need to drive the driveshafts out first. It can be a bit time consuming the first time trying to figure it out, but I think I've got replacing a bearing down to about an hour now.

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/produ ... +seperator

If the bearing seperates I pull the inner bearing off like this:



An if I want to make it more steady or apply more torque I bolt the lot to my spare:



Good luck!