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

[amalventano1@comcast.net (Allyn)]

the lip of the stock scirocco jack fits so nicely into the side edge of the flange... and the foot
of the jack can usually find some raised section on the block. worked all too easily. as for the
circlip, i most certainly agree with ron (although i used 2 small flathead screwdrivers). I was
lucky as the circlip looked like it had been removed once before and was a tad mangled.
Al

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Pieper" <rapieper@yahoo.com>
To: "Mardak" <maardak@yahoo.ca>; <Scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: Drive flange removal - Help! (there's text in this one :-)


> 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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