[AT] Quiet list and tapered axles

[Bruce Fallon]

List is very quiet.

Anybody have any ideas how to remove a brake drum from a tapered axle shaft. 
I was trying to remove the one on my Huber,  I put a piece of angle iron 
with another piece of steel over the end of the axle shaft and against the 
nut loosened but still on it and tightened bolts in the lug bolt holes to 
apply pressure to the end of the shaft as a puller and beat on the drum and 
heated the center of the hub but finally had to give up.  I put the nut back 
on loose and graded with it for a while but when checked later it was still 
tight.  I had heard in the old days of dodges and studebakers with the 
tapered hubs that was a trick to loosen the nut and drive them until they 
moved.  I don't want to beat on the end of the shaft and bell it to where 
the nut cannot be put back on.

Bruce Fallon
Freeland WA. 98249
bfallon at whidbey.com 



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