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Tee wit tee whoo!

Here is a photo of a New Zealand equivalent of Mr Churchill’s puller! A 2 inch pipe socket, (well used in my case as witnessed by the pipe clamp marks!), welded to two suitable bits of plate and a large bolt!

I welded the bottom plate – the big one to the socket, spun it up in the lathe to make sure that the 2 inch hole which I cut in the plate with a hole saw was central and fitted over the hub nut and wheel flange hub, then drilled the four holes for the wheel studs. Welded a bit of plate on the other end plus a big nut and bolt (might have been one of my spare subframe bolts!!).

I have also got a piece of about 1 and a half inch angle iron which I have drilled to take two of the four wheel studs and which I can use to hold the rear axle assembly as I wind up the bolt on the hub puller. Same piece of angle iron has been drilled on one of the other faces to hold the flange on the back of the gearbox so that I could remove it and replace the seal.

All painted green to stop others “pinching” it for use elsewhere!

Might be awkward for someone to make without access to the right tools but one hell of a lot cheaper than what you folk suggest they are selling for.

Robert

um yup when canley classics deliver mine i will post a pic i had no choice but to invest in one hope to attack bearings tonite if this wonder device works coz 3 prong one doesnt! i do like your homemade version bloody clever

have to say even with the Churchill puller from can classics that was an utter swine to get off used lots of heat and help with a scaffold pole and my neirbour andy cheers mate its finally off and bearing is totally shot almost no grease internally how the hell do I get bearing out as was dark time we finished getting hub off do I need a slide hammer?

yahoo got halfshaft off and bearing which was shot to bits now all back didnt finish unt 10pm thank you lot for advise

oh bugger other wheel bearing has come out in sympathy fir its departed brother so tools back out again also had to buy new wheel studs as one not too clever and new nuts why do triumphs fall sick just prior to organised trips??????

still unable to remove hub I even screwed up the Churchill puller using excessive force I actuall welded the stainless big nut in thread but got it reengineered and tried again but to no avail but am using a blow torch as heat source perhaps not hot enuf?it will not shift at all

As I have often posted elsewhere, a fly-press is what you need, a fairly sturdy one will do. I have done loads of them on a fly-press and they always come off first bump. Its the combination of the sudden jolt with big force behind it that does the biz. A one-tonne fly-press soon shifted a hub that a 50-tonne hydraulic press and oxy-torch wouldn't. Speak to your local engineering shop (probably in China these days).

jeepers looks likr an instrutment of torture ill havr a ring around cheers jod

yup was rear wheel bearings offside rear hub took foreever to get off lots of penetrating fluid and heat and not so gentle persuation ie two big fellas and 6ft scaffold pole she came off and bearings replaced and oil seals but drivers side was impossible to get off evem my classic friendly garage could.t budge it in the end resorted to replacing with a very good half shaft with hub attached bearing got 2008 stamped on it so should last not a fun job all!!!!