Re: Tapered Axles

["MO ( Steve Mick)" <micher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A slide hammer works very well. Find a nut the same size and thread as your 
axel casteel nut- weld that nut to another nut that fits the end of the 
slide hammer.  Now you have an adapter to keep in your toolbox for the next 
time. A few licks with the slide hammer and that axel will come right out. 
You don't have to take the key out from the back. just an upward tap on the 
top front edge of the key with a small chisle will lift it right 
up..............................MO........sw  iowa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Edison" <waedison@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:23 PM
Subject: RE: Tapered Axles



You are dead in the water without an axle puller. You are correct about
using the wrench to coax the axle out after you've popped it off the taper.
There's a great how to article on the 62-65 web page that takes you step by
step through the process.
/Butch/ Ferndale, WA

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Cornelius [mailto:lt7dave@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 7:01 PM
To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Tapered Axles


I don't have the axle puller, but I read in a tech article that rapping on a
wrench behind the castle nut was a way it could be pulled out of the tube.
So that was my plan.  Am I dead in the water without an axle puller?
Dave

--- On Tue, 7/14/09, Jimmy Peavy <peaver63@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Jimmy Peavy <peaver63@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Tapered Axles
> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 8:50 PM
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> I assume you have the axle puller?
>
> Jimmy
>
> Dave Cornelius wrote:
> > Hey Guys,
> >
> > I finally got my stuck rear hub off tonight thanks to
> the correct hub puller arriving UPS today. By the way,
> I highly recommend ToolTopia.com for anyone looking to buy a
> universal hub puller. I ordered it late Friday night
> and it arrived today - free shipping. It looked like
> about the best deal out there.
> >
> > So I have both hubs off now (it feels like sort of a
> rite of passage of owning this car), and my next move is to
> get the axles out. It looks like I need to get the
> backing plates off first. But, the keys are still in
> the keyways, and it looks like the backing plates won't be
> able to come off with them in there. First question -
> am I correctly understanding that to be the way to get the
> axles out? Second, anyone have advice for a good way
> to get the keys out of the keyways? I think they need
> to come out from the inside toward the outside - which makes
> pounding them out tough with such little clearance for a
> tool to get in behind there. One thought I have is to
> take the nuts off the backing plates and get them away from
> the axle tubes. Then maybe I can pull the axles out
> and get all of it together - giving me more room to knock
> the keys out on the bench. Would that work, or is
> there a better way?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Dave
> > '64 Belvedere
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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