Won't be much for prose today but I'll try to provide some detail with each picture.
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| These are the passenger side upper control arm/half shaft. |
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| Separating the parts from the hub and hub carrier, the wood block has been used successfully to press the hub out on several cars. |
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| The cleaned parts that compose the control arms for the passenger side suspension. The parts are in good condition and I am thinking that the original finish is quite good, so probably won't repaint. As some folks say "it's only original once". |
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| The cleaned hub carrier and hub |
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| Removing the outer bearing tends to be problematic, I don't want to damage either the hub spacer or water slinger so the bearing has to be destroyed to pull it off. This picture show the hub being held in a spare wheel with the bearing splitter attached. The roller bearings have to be removed so that the bearing separator could be fastened to the bearings inner race. |
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| Bearing separator attached to the bearings inner race, it has a lip that will hold the device. The bearing searator would not fit in under the bearing with the water slinger in place. I have tried to remove the slinger in the past to do this but I wasn't able to get it back on and secure. |
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| The hub sans bearing |
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| Hate to destroy the bearing but I planned on replacing it with a new bearing and it allowed me to protect the water slinger and more importantly the spacer that doubles as the sealing surface against the seal. |
Well, that's it for now....
Cheers,
Lynn
I cleaned my control arms and halfshafts, but ended up painting the arms. since not much of the original paint remained. I left the halfshafts with the original paint since they looked pretty good as well. Yes, I found out from Ray at CJ that destroying the bearing is the only way to accomplish the bearing removal and leave the slinger in place. I did it just the way you did.
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