<VV> REAR AXLE YOKE REMOVAL

[Mark Durham]

Gents, its a difficult problem in some cases. As you heat the yoke you also
heat the axle shaft which makes it tighter. You need to heat the yoke and
cool the shaft, with some dry ice or even some real wet towels on the shaft
may be enough to do it. Sometimes the shaft is stuck because of rust, so
soak it in WD-40 for while, and when you have it under tension with the
puller, hit the end of the puller to shock the joint.
Mark Durham

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Tony Underwood <tony.underwood at cox.net>wrote:

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> Ahh...
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> I must have been doing it wrong when I broke two pullers (one of them
> a Snap-On, courtesy of Rick's Automotive during a tech session) while
> trying to remove the yokes from the axles on my '60.   Likewise my
> buddy James and his '62 Spyder when we were trying to get the axles
> out of that particular car... and even heating the yoke with a torch
> didn't help.
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> The next relocated tech session at Jame's place (also a club picnic
> function) revolved around a semi-contest on who could come up with a
> puller that would take the yokes off.    Mel Herwald had a really
> nifty puller that used a peculiar hydraulic principle with a
> two-stage multiplier "pull" function that looked promising but we
> didn't get a chance to put it to the test before time ran out or food
> appeared or something else happened to distract the masses.
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> Mel, you still in here somewhere?    What's the story on that
> pulley?    Ever use it on an early yoke yet?
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> tony..     still yet to get the yokes off the '60 4-door's axles
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> PS:   a more concerted effort may well be indulged should the
> recently repacked rear axle bearings decide to get
> noisy...  double-yoking etc...   whatever it ends up taking to get them off
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> PPS:    moral of story-   sometimes an early yoke will not cooperate
> regardless of the luck others may have had...   trust me
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