Grandmothers, suck and eggs may spring to mind but there is today's tip.

I fitted my rear brake assemblies yesterday and this required rmoval of the half shafts.

Haynes say use a slide hammer - don't have one or fit wheel and thump each side simultaneously - not enough room so resorted into using a little pusher.

It consits of 2 lengths of M10 studding that I bought for smoe other purpose but couldn't use due to thread pitch wrong and 2 M8 bolts with nuts from a rotted B&Q garden bench, bits below:

in use


And in position. Using two sapnners, one to hold the bolt and other to undo the nut, the half shaft comes out nicely.
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[Edited on 15/1/06 by 02GF74]

Tried that and the big slide hammer wins hands down

all i did when i removed my shafts was bolt an old wheel on and hit it with a sledge hammer a few times, did the trick

I failed with a sledge hammer, so had to take my half shafts to a local garage, who *broke* their slide hammer trying to get them out - the thing snapped on the welds. So then I went to an axle specialist, who had the mother of all slide hammers, and managed to get them out after a good few attempts.

So I think it must depend how corroded in your bearings are. After mine were taken out for the first time I could take them out myself in a couple of minutes with a home made slide hammer.

Gary

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all i did when i removed my shafts was bolt an old wheel on and hit it with a sledge hammer a few times, did the trick

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