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Old 07-27-2018, 02:58 PM
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This was a pain in the butt for me. I didn't expect a repair bearing, so I was going about it wrong. The repair bearing is long, and sticks out of the axle tube about 3/8" so a slide hammer works best. I tried different combinations of pullers that grabbed it ok, but I thought I was pushing on the tube, not the end of the repair bearing.
I got a slide hammer/bearing puller from HF on sale for $48, and found that it was too small, so I bought a set like you posted from HF, and then found that the slide hammer from the one set, wouldn't fit the slide hammer fitting on the new set. The female threads on one is 9/16" fine, and the other is 5/8" coarse. The pullers that came with the slide hammer set expand https://www.harborfreight.com/slide-...-pc-62601.html, and the others have a "rocker" head that pivots after you push it past the bearing. Both are "Pittsburg" tools. Reading the reviews at HF, I'm not the first person to discover this.
What we did, was stick the smallest expanding type puller with the slide hammer on it, into the female slide hammer fitting on the "rocker" style, got it behind the bearing, and a couple pops and it was out.
It looks like the other side has a repair bearing in it, too. I'll leave that for later...I hope much later.
 

Last edited by GrandpaDan; 07-27-2018 at 03:27 PM. Reason: Added comments about the slide hammer pullers
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