sixstringsteve- you gonna be running any top of lockers? or no
On second thought, bring me a hub body rather than the dial/cap...it'll be easier to get the hole spacing that way, plus I can test-fit the thing after.
Essentially I'm just making a disc with 6 holes in it, right? Then you'll weld a nut on it to screw the slide hammer into? (just making sure the image in my head is the right one...)
You got it. I'll bring the hub body, hub dial, and a hub dial gasket (you can keep it). I've never checked, but I assume the '79-85, ifs, and taco aisin hubs all have the same dial on them. Can anyone confirm?
That's how I understand it. I'd love a hole in the center of mine if possible for me to run a bolt through the middle for my slide hammer (rather than welding a nut to it).
On second thought, bring me a hub body rather than the dial/cap...it'll be easier to get the hole spacing that way, plus I can test-fit the thing after.
Essentially I'm just making a disc with 6 holes in it, right? Then you'll weld a nut on it to screw the slide hammer into? (just making sure the image in my head is the right one...)
I'll cut 4 out, that way I have an extra just in case.
Make me one Carl
Fwiw I use a brass drift on directly on the end of the studs with light taps from a brass tipped hammer on the edge of the hub body. Even on 40+ year old stubborn LC axles they pop out easy enough. That said if this tool makes it so you do less damage to the stud and don't have to mar up the hub at all, I'd love to give it a try.
Please post pics and results of this. I have always had good luck with heat (butane) and then severely beating the lockout with a rubber mallet back and forth. This seems to work better than chisels, small screwdrivers etc.I made several of the hub puller plate thingys for whoever else wants to try 'em out. I'm interested to see if they'll work, or if you'll just be fighting against the cone washers in futility.
Does this mean you'll be going on your shakedown run this weekend then? What's left on the docket?