Re: Help! How do I get rear wheel off

[Bill <Y1TopBanana73@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually I think Steve may have had the best answer yet...a nut
splitter. You can buy these things @ Harbor Freight and they work
pretty well. I'd be afraid of getting things too hot and trashing axle
seals or mistakenly messing up the wheels by using a torch.

Bill M
65 Coronet 500 'vert

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Steve Chervinsky
<63hemipolara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If your studs are spinning you have a BIG problem, the splines on your
> studs are ground off.
>
> The only way to get those off now would be to split the wheel nuts
> with a bolt cutter or with a impact chisel, or a torch. Then you will
> need new wheel nuts, new studs and possibly new axle flanges if the
> splines on the studs spun the splines off the flange. This may be time
> to upgrade.
>
> To get the brake drum off you will need a brake drum puller. I have
> one for mine but I'm not next door.
>
> It is for these reasons that I am converting to a 65+ 8 3/4.
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:46 AM,  <laborboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Not only do I have the infamous tapered rear axle spline in my 1964
>> Dodge Polara, I also have rear wheel studs that rotate when you try to
>> take the nuts off! I am dying for ideas here on how to remove the wheel
>> and brake drum at the same time off these crazy tapered axle. Any and
>> all suggestions will be very much appreciated! Zack
>
>
> --
> Steve
> '63 Hemi Polara


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