Hi,
I've got 2 cortina axles that I have been stripping down, all has been going well till last night.
Last 2 halfshafts are so tight I can't get them free, and I want to save the wheel bearings as I think they are in good nick 
Tried taking out two wheel studs and replaced them with 2 m10 bolts to push the hub out but just bent the bolts! 
Anyone been here before and got them out? failing this I'm going to have to take the grinder to the casing
cheers
Can younot use an old steel wheel and a hammer?
Slide hammer....but locost solution seems to be to bolt on an old wheel and sledge it from behind!
I always managed to do it with the reverse bolt method and lots of WD40.
Do you not have a slide hammer? I used one along with a steel plate which bolted to the studs. Took a while but it worked.
HTH
Note to self: "must type faster" 
[Edited on 24/2/11 by Daddylonglegs]
Put an old steel wheel on the shaft and hammer on the tyre at the sme time pulling at the diagonally opposite side to the spot you are
hammering on.
Sswitch to the diagonally opposite side every few blows of the hammer and work your way round the clock face --- it will eventually start to
move.
[Edited on 24/2/11 by britishtrident]
thanks
I have some quite large hammers but was not to keen on using them as I thought I may damage the wheel bearings in the process. This may be my only
good pair and it would be a shame to wreak them
quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Put an old steel wheel on the shaft and hammer on the tyre at the sme time pulling at the diagonally opposite side to the spot you are hammering on.
Sswitch to the diagonally opposite side every few blows of the hammer and work your way round the clock face --- it will eventually start to move.
[Edited on 24/2/11 by britishtrident]
Am I reading this right... you'd rather chop up the housing (and wreck the axle) than buy new bearings?
quote:
Originally posted by adithorp
Am I reading this right... you'd rather chop up the housing (and wreck the axle) than buy new bearings?
but short on good wheel bearings. The axles are off to the scrappys at the weekend once I have gutted them,
I'm only keeping the one that's on the car as that has the cortina brackets where as the others have been changed to leaf springs. The
bearings have been getting chewed up by loads of large rust flakes inside the axle tube, damn annoying really Scott, there is a guy on the Tiger Forum that might be after a Cortina diff. Might be worth a PM?
Cortina rear wheel bearings aren't expensive or hard to find. Cortina axles are.
You are going to distort the cages in the bearings in any case, so they will be scrap. I needed to apply heat the end of the axle to get mine out.
Hi Mr Whippy,
I would be interested in taking an axle off your hands when your finished with them
Cheers Kev
I had the same problem on my first build. Went to my local garage and borrowed his slide hammer. They came out no problem.
Just make sure that you've drained the oil before pulling the half-shafts...
...guess who didn't, and got a puddle of dirty smelly oil over his shoes...
[Edited on 24/2/11 by David Jenkins]
you've tried making a presss like this?
piece of studding connector, bolt and nut.
oph, and don't go hitting the tyre, not only is is cruel but it will absrob most of the force of the blow plus bounce the hammer back into yer
face.