pressure required to remove rear axle bearings
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pressure required to remove rear axle bearings
i am considering buying a small shop press for my garage (<10ton).....how many tons of pressure is required to remove the rear axle bearings? TIA
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FSM says it should take no less than 6 tons to install the retainer ring.
A 12 ton press we had at work had *no* problems installing new bearing/retainer.
A 12 ton press we had at work had *no* problems installing new bearing/retainer.
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found a 12ton for 125. it would be a nice edition to my tool collection but since i need to be efficient money wise and im not gonna need a press for the rest of the car ill just take the axle and new bearings to a shop. thanks for the info tho
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to install the new ones yes, but you can't get it around the bearings cause the brake backing plate is in the way (which is held on by the bearings basically) so theres no room. As stated earlier use a cutoff wheel to cut most of the way through the bearing and retainer then smack them off with a hammer and cold chisel. Getting the old ones off is a half hour job at most (once the axles are out of the rear end that is)
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