Tapered Axles

[Dave Cornelius <lt7dave@xxxxxxxxx>]

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


      


----
Please address private mail -- mail of interest to only one person -- directly to that person.  I.e., send parts/car transactions and negotiations as well as other personal messages only to the intended recipient, not to the Clubhouse public address. This practice will protect your privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine tune the content signal to Mopar topic.  Thanks!

'62 to '65 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines:
http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html.