[AT] Quiet list and tapered axles

[charlie hill]

It might take a while fooling with it.  Put a puller on it such as you fabed 
up or similar to the picture Richard sent you.  Tighten it, put penetrating 
oil on the shaft, take a big hammer and hit the center bolt with a hard 
sharp blow ( make sure the nut is on it or the end is somehow protected). 
Then tighten some more if possible,  soak it with oil again, hit it again, 
and repeat.  It will give up after a while.
If you have to heat it, try heating it just enough to get some bees wax to 
melt into the hub around the axle then tighten and beat again.

No need to continuously hit the center.  Just put presure on it and hit it 
with one hard blow with a big hammer.  If it doesn't move tighten some more.

Charlie Hill
----- 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 10:52 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
>
>
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