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Posted by oldchipper (My Page) on Fri, Sep 3, 10 at 0:37
| Have an old (1999 or 2000) 46 inch Murray that I restoring! Everything has been going well until I tried to remove the rear hubs. They will not budge, Tried soaking them in penetrating oil, I finally cut the wheel off with a torch., just leaving the hub. Made a puller adapter and have my largest puller on it. Will not move, I have heated it to red with the puller on it. I know not to hammer on it. Thought about drilling out the square key, but that would be tricky to do without damaging something. Unless someone knows of a way to get it off; I’ll have to cut it off! I plan on making a new hub anyway; One with a 5 bolt hole pattern, but I could use the hub if I could get it off in one piece. If anyone has found a way please share it with me.. |
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RE: Murray rear hub/wheel
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- Posted by baymee LehighValleyPA (My Page) on
Fri, Sep 3, 10 at 6:27
| Don't feel too bad. I wanted to sell the tranny on ebay and I couldn't get them off either. I couldn't decide if it was worth my time to cut the hubs off vs. what I could sell it for on ebay, so I moved it to the shed for a future date. |
RE: Murray rear hub/wheel
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If the adapter you rigged for the puller attaches to the remnant hub to "pull" on the hub............you probably will have no success. Pulling on the hub itself creates a sort of "squeeze" effect in the hub making it actually grip tighter on the axle shaft.
But, if you can improvise a "split collar" to fit around the axle shaft behind the hub, and then adapt the collar to your puller, you will effectively be "pushing" against the hub, and pushing from behind tends to make the grip weaker because the I.D. of the hub wants to get larger under the compression pressure of the collar, instead of smaller as when pulling.
Think of "Chinese handcuffs' that fit on your fingers.
PULLING on the hub itself creates the same effect and the hub just hold on tighter.
If you get behind it and push with enough pressure, it will come off.
But you must not push against the transaxle case, that would destroy the axle shaft retainer clips or bolts in the center of the differential. |
RE: Murray rear hub/wheel
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| Had the same problem with a tractor before wanted to put new tires on the rear. Couldnt get the wheels off for nothing tried heating, pulling you name it ended up putting new tires on while rims was still on tractor. Good Luck hope it works out for ya. |
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