47 rear hub pulling

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exoilfld

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I am trying to remove the rear hubs on my 47. I built a puller with a 1 1/4 inch pushing bolt. I have heated the hub and hit it with an 8 lb. hammer and tightened the bolt with a 36" pipe wrench with a 3' cheater and still nothing. Has anyone ever cut one off? I am thinking about taking an air cutoff tool and cutting along the key way. Anyone ever done this?
 
Be patient.

Are you pulling on the groove around the centre of the hub? If not, that's where you must pull. Make sure you are not damaging the thread on the axle end. Just leaving it overnight or for an hour or so will sometimes do the trick. They can take one hell of a pull to get them off. A sound whack on the end of the puller bolt with a decent heavy hammer can also help. Try and use skill and finesse, though, trying to knock seven bells out of it will only cause damage to the axle end.

Mart.
 
no stop. there is a puller that goes on the hub bolts with a screw that pushes on the axle. Some one will come on with all the poop.
 
I wish you were closer. There was a guy selling cheap but good pullers a while back. I bought one and it has worked for me. I will see if I can run down a contact.
 
You must use the KR WILSON style hub puller or one like it that is being reproduced today. Otherwise you can end up in a "world of hurt" with a damaged axle and drum.
 

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exoilfld said:
I am trying to remove the rear hubs on my 47. I built a puller with a 1 1/4 inch pushing bolt. I have heated the hub and hit it with an 8 lb. hammer and tightened the bolt with a 36" pipe wrench with a 3' cheater and still nothing. Has anyone ever cut one off? I am thinking about taking an air cutoff tool and cutting along the key way. Anyone ever done this?
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I have cut off a lot of them and it is not an easy task either! The drums on a lot of them are total junk anyway.
 
48 coupe said:
no stop. there is a puller that goes on the hub bolts with a screw that pushes on the axle. Some one will come on with all the poop.
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Lordy, Lordy...........DO NOT use anything that bolts to the studs! That's the absolute BEST way to bend your hub.

Get one of the KR Wilson-types that pulls on the center, that was put there just for that reason! DD

DAMN......19Fordy is squeekin'-quick today!

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Pulling from the studs is risky because of Ford's large bolt circle. You can bend the hub and drum sometimes without removing the thing.
Plomb and Snap on, the 2 main professional tool suppliers in the Flathead era, both supplied the hub stud type pullers...and both equipped them with special extra arms to allow them to pull from the central hub grooves on Fords.
 
Not as good as a factory one, but one I made that's worked every time I've used it.
 

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The drums are already off. Did you cut the hubs off as I described? Seems as if they should come pretty easy that way.
 
The way I did it was remove the cotter pin and loosen the nut a few turns and drive it around a tight circle in drive way and it would pop and then jack it up and remove nut and hub. Worked for me.
 
What are safety hubs? I bought a puller that is a reproduction of the Wilson puller, but I doubt it will have the capacity of the crude one I built. I will try to post a picture later today when my camera charges up.
 
Safety hubs were devices that were used to retain the wheels on a pre-'49 Ford rear end in the event of a broken axle. They consisted of an aluminum casting that slipped over the inner hub from the inside. Then, a steel ring was welded on to the inner edge of the inner hub to retain the casting on the hub. The casting had two threaded holes that accepted a couple of studs about 3 inches long. To install them, you removed two of the bolts holding the backing plate on and put the studs (that had been screwed into the aluminum casting) through these holes. Nuts and lock washers were screwed onto the studs to retain the whole thing. You can usually tell if you have safety hubs by checking to see if there are two studs protruding from the back if the axle flange. I had a set of these on a drag car I had in the '60's.

After all of this, I doubt this is the problem, because the hubs would have "popped loose", but would just not be able to be removed.
 
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