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Originally Posted by fastfredracing
Here is what I use, its called the hub shocker
. I laugh about the name every time I use it. It bolts to the hub, then you pound on it with your biggest sledge .
A true time saver , a lot of them will pop right out with a few whacks, but some of them man......
Rear hubs on Subaru are brutal. Takes me about 15 minutes to unbolt everything, then I hammer on it till my hands go numb, soak it down , come back hammer on it some more, . Rinse, and repeat .
I love talking car repairs  |
Seriously good idea....but....
I started to do a "poor man's" version of this with a 24 inch monkey wrench and my sledge hammer, but then I saw the likely resultant deformation of the car's trailing arms - which are stamped sheet metal (!) - and had to stop.
Yeah, talking car repairs is interesting. I learned a tremendous amount by finding out what worked (and more importantly, what didn't) from others.
I'm working on this kind of thing a bit slower having just turned 64, but that just means I use longer pipe cheaters and heaver hammers. And take pain killers before & after.