How tough replacing clutch master cyl and u-joints on 86 Cherokee?

The Cherokee has a sealed hub that can blow apart using that method. Same for an axle puller, it can just pull the hub apart, not get it off.

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Jeepster wrote:

Ok, but how do you get the prick back together without a machine press?

Mike

"L.W.(ßill) Hughes III" wrote:

A lot of the guys will try to pound on the bolts to dislodge the=20 hub. Putting a nut on the bolt keeps you from mashing the threads=20 but not from bending the bolt or shortening it. The clear ticket=20 to knocking out a tie rod end is to make sure there is a LOT of=20 iron BEHIND the tie rod to keep it from moving. A 26 pound=20 railroad bar, 12 poound sledge hamer head are good candidates.

But back to the banana rat> Smashed threads? Always put the nut back on upside-down to protect=

I have a couple sacrificial bolts for pounding on to try and pop those hubs.

They are an extremely difficult if not impossible job for a rookie mechanic.

I am no rookie and have spent 2 days on one....

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Roy J wrote:

I have found that if you loosen all three bolts with a 12 point 13 mm socket, then thread them back in a few turns put a 12 point 13 mm socket on the one that you are using an air hammer on and rotate around the three bolts they come right out. Make sure to use lots of anti seize on them when you put it back together and it is a piece of cake.

I am missing something....

The bolts are on the back and suck the hub into the socket. The bolts need to be pounded on to force the hub out of it's socket.

I don't have any trouble at all getting the bolts out, it's the hub that's the problem.

Mike

g a r y a n d k a t e wrote:

Ahhh, got it, thanks.

Mike

"L.W.(ßill) Hughes III" wrote: