Re: [Amc-list] Subject: Pressing Hubs

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If you use a nice chunk of Oak or Maple they usually do not pose much problem getting them apart.
Pine will work, but usually only survives about one drum per piece of wood!

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
" I was different before people dared to be different" 

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> I tried to press the front drum off of a 65 Rambler
> American hub last night (no Kroil added at this point)
> and the drum began to warp.  That's why I asked.  I'm
> selling the hubs on a Ebay auction and the buyers
> won't get the drums if they don't want to pay shipping
> charges.
> 
> I was avoiding use of the "big hammer" at first
> because I do have a Harbor Fright shop press and I
> ususally get in trouble when I get out the big hammer.
> 
> I was also a little surprised at how much demand there
> is for the hubs and spindles with bearings.  Good
> trailer parts I guess.
> 
> Regards,
> Joe Fulton
> 
> --- Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Yeah I neglected to say that. When drums are not 30,
> > 40 years old they can 
> > be removed without deforming the drum. That
> > small-hole-drill trick I first 
> > did on my 62 Ambassador in the late 1970's; one of
> > our machinists 
> > recommended it. It was on a rear drum, but it came
> > off and was turnable 
> > afterwards.
> > 
> 
> 
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