Drive flange removal - Help! (there's text in this one :-)

[maardak@yahoo.ca (Mardak)]

No worries, I was just informed that the Peloquin 80% kit that I
ordered (Thanks Peter!) includes the flange removal tool...

One less thing to worry about...

Mark.

--- Ron Pieper <rapieper@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Before I got the tool, I fought like hell with a generic steering
> wheel
> puller and a ratcheting cargo strap to compress the flanges.  Both
> worked...sorta.  I have heard that a carpenter's pipe clamp can
> squeeze
> the flanges as well.
> 
> The proper tool is so simple to make or so cheap to buy, it's hardly
> worth the trouble to work around it.  (It's a piece of flat steel
> bent
> into a square U, with a drilled a hole in the bottom of the U.  Also
> a
> threaded rod and nut, the rod screws into the axle, the nut forces
> the
> tool against the flange, compressing it.)
> 
> The other tool you *will* need is a circlip pliers.  (Not needlenose,
> not screwdrivers, not snap ring pliers.  Circlip pliers.)  Get them
> at
> NAPA or Sears or the like.  You may have to file the tip to get it in
> the groove in the flange; no biggie.
> 
> Don't mean to sound harsh but the hassle of working around the right
> tools makes it well worth the $ to go buy them.
> 
> Ron
> 
> --- Mardak <maardak@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> > Reading the procedure in the Bentley tells me to use VW Tool #391
> to
> > remove the drive flanges.  Do I need this tool to do the job, or is
> > there another way?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > 
> >
>
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