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crispins said:
I have looked at this pic for a while, what the hell am I looking at?

How the fuck is that winch mounted?

Is that a cardboard box?

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Looks like 6x2 (ish) C channel to me, with 1.5" tall flatstock on the ends..

Aaron Z
 
M92PV4U said:
I don't know what is going on in that picture but.... I'd remove the fawking caliper first.
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aczlan said:
I'll bet it's trying to push the axle out of the hub and the splines are stuck.

Aaron Z
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Bingo :beer:

Fawkin thing still wouldn't budge :mad3:. Gonna have to strip the lot out, take it to work and stick it in the big boy press. All this effort just to change the abs tone ring, fuck road salt :flipoff:
 
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OllieNZ said:
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Bingo :beer:

Fawkin thing still wouldn't budge :mad3:. Gonna have to strip the lot out and take it to work to sick it in the big boy press. All this effort just to change the abs tone ring, fuck road salt :flipoff:
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Assumed that it was a straight axle.
So the splines of the c.v. axle are rusted to the unit bearing?
 
OllieNZ said:
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Bingo :beer:

Fawkin thing still wouldn't budge :mad3:. Gonna have to strip the lot out, take it to work and stick it in the big boy press. All this effort just to change the abs tone ring, fuck road salt :flipoff:
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road salt in nz?
 
M92PV4U said:
Do you have a air chipping gun? Sometimes the vibration from that will brake rusted together stuff loose.
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Get the fuck out of here with that. The winter of 2017 Ohio DOT used 955,483 tons of salt on the roads.
 
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rockyota83 said:
road salt in nz?
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UK, I'm living in limeyland these days.

Interestingly they don't use road salt in NZ due to its effect on the environment, they use calcium magnesium acetate instead.

M92PV4U said:
Do you have a air chipping gun? Sometimes the vibration from that will brake rusted together stuff loose.
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Not at home. I've tried beating on it, heating it, ghetto press and all no bueno. 50t press at work should shift it.
 
Yotota said:
Soak the bitch in PB Blaster or an equivalent penetrating oil and let it sit for a day or two to creep into the splines. We always had to do that on Audis like the B5 S4's...
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I poured a load in yesterday so I'll have another crack today before I give in completely.
It's BMW 1 series so probably the same steel and precision German engineering tolerances.

It just fucks me right off when a job that should take an hour tops turns into a 3 day ordeal
 
OllieNZ said:
UK, I'm living in limeyland these days.

Interestingly they don't use road salt in NZ due to its effect on the environment, they use calcium magnesium acetate instead.



Not at home. I've tried beating on it, heating it, ghetto press and all no bueno. 50t press at work should shift it.
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Fuck I thought you only got rain over there. :confused:
 
YotaAtieToo said:
Fuck I thought you only got rain over there. :confused:
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UK?
Currently hovering between 25-40F here

NZ (at least the part I grew up in) gets pretty cold. It was not unusual for temps to not get above freezing all day in winter and routinely drop into the teens (F) overnight.
 
woods said:
If I ever got to this point, I'd swear I was doing something wrong. Like a missing circlip or something. :laughing:
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Not gonna lie, 5 minutes before this pic I double checked the manual for the same reason :laughing:
 
Had this happen before on a 95' Sebring. The wheel bearing roasted and the heat created litteraly welded the CV into the hub splines. No amount of fixing worked.

New steering knuckle and CV was needed.
 
Aisin said:
Get the fuck out of here with that. The winter of 2017 Ohio DOT used 955,483 tons of salt on the roads.
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you ever used a rivet buster?
they're marginal for busting rock but in automotive work they are the king shit
 
I’ve bucked thousands of rivets with a pneumatic rivet gun. Far more than you ever will. When I worked in a shop before joining the military I went straight for torches when doing suspension and front end work. Pneumatic tools were a waste of time.
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you ever used a rivet buster?
they're marginal for busting rock but in automotive work they are the king shit
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Winchested said:
Had this happen before on a 95' Sebring. The wheel bearing roasted and the heat created litteraly welded the CV into the hub splines. No amount of fixing worked.

New steering knuckle and CV was needed.
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Apparently I've beat on it hard enough the unit bearing is now fubar :homer:
 
Aisin said:
I’ve bucked thousands of rivets with a pneumatic rivet gun. Far more than you ever will. When I worked in a shop before joining the military I went straight for torches when doing suspension and front end work. Pneumatic tools were a waste of time.
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I dunno man, this guy fuckulates some really rusty shit apart right good.
 
OllieNZ said:
Apparently I've beat on it hard enough the unit bearing is now fubar :homer:
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On my brother '91 honda accord not realizing how to get something apart to remove the c.v. axle, we pulled the unit bearing apart:homer:. We smacked that bitch back together and all was well :lmao:.

It doesn't take much to ruin a bearing with heat or smacking the outer race and letting the balls transfer force to the inner race.
 
M92PV4U said:
Quick question. When you jack the jack, do you pull that extension out and use it for a handle or just stick another one in that one?
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Just pull it out, it's a 10inch one, had enough leverage to force the jack to bypass internally.
 
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