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Old May 20, 2018 | 05:59 PM
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Anyone have any suggestions for removing the front wheel bearing housing? I have tried beating it, heating it, slide hammer and it will not budge. It's getting very frustrating.
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Old May 20, 2018 | 10:14 PM
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They are pretty stubborn to replace.When I did mine last year I removed the entire steering knuckle from the truck and set it across concrete cinder blocks and using a splitting wedge and 6lb sledge to drive it out in about a half dozen good wacks then cleaned up the mounting surfaces of rust with a small angle die grinder and coated with anti-seize.It helps to have an assistant to steady the knuckle while you do it.It also helps a lot to let it soak for a while in Kroil penetrant if you can find some.Also sourced a set of new oem bolts because they often break,strip or round off.

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Old May 26, 2018 | 10:43 PM
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If you're not particularly attached to your rotor you could use it as a whacking plate...i.e, attach the lugs to the rotor (use some washers if you have too much space between the lugs and rotor) and then wack the attached rotor from the back like a mad man with a 12+ pound maul. Wack it two or three times, than rotate the rotor, wack it, rotate, spray with some penetrating fluid, repeat repeat repeat. It's how I got one of mine out. I also had worked on it with a 10 pound slide hammer for awhile before that. Seemed like I made more progress with the maul. I was about to pull the knuckle (as Dak suggests), but I was replacing the front rotors anyway and it ended up coming out thankfully.
 
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