[AT] Quiet list and tapered axles

[Ronald L. Cook]

You do want to leave the nut on, though.  Otherwise that thing will come 
loose and fly clear across the shop.  Unless it hits you first.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

>Here it is Bruce and that's exactly the puller Dad had.  See where you SMACK
>it on the end?
>
>http://www.autohobbydigest.com/axlepul.html
>
>
>Hope this helped
>RickinMt.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bruce Fallon" <bfallon at whidbey.com>
>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 8:52 PM
>Subject: [AT] Quiet list and tapered axles
>
>
> > 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