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Originally Posted by Bernhardt
necro-ing a bit of an old thread here. Haven't worked on the vehicle due to rain(if you live in central california you know what I'm talking about) and a shoulder issue until now.
got the drive shaft out(by removing the outer wheel assy, along with the troublesome bolts, which came out nice and easy once the drive shaft was out.
Now for a new issue: It seems the wheel carrier, which I forgot to remove before I took out the driveshaft due to pre-occupation with the stripped bolt heads, doesn't want to be tapped out of the bearing. Anybody got any ideas other than loosely assembling it all again and using a gear puller to get it out? I'm guessing this bearing is original from the looks of it, so it's had a good long time to rust/contact weld.
The kroil has had no effect that I can tell so far....
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Eat two boxes of wheaties and install a hub puller to that hub, get yourself a very chunky slide hammer and attach it to the hub puller.
You will need to slide that hammer quite a bit to pull the hub out - Its doable on a sedan as the inner race halves are not trapped unlike the wagon rear bearings which are tapered type and require literal hulk/brute force with slide hammers that require 10 or 15 lb sledges. On wagons, its best to remove the entire bearing carrier and get it to a HD truck shop or a shop that has a 50 ton press and proper cylinder spacers so they only react on the circular snout of the carrier and not the brake caliper ears.