How do you get rear slip driveshaft pieces at carrier bearing apart?(supercab 4x4)

[THECACKLER]

Buy them both and take one back.

 

[Agnem]

Did you get it off? I'm struggling with one right now.

 

[Agnem]

I finally got mine apart. Tied one end to a tree and me and Graham pulled hard. Never did get the cap off. Now I cant figure out how to get the bearing off. There seems to be a big washer pressed on or something.

 

[starmilt]

Smoke wrench works it is more or less pressed on.

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

Now I cant figure out how to get the bearing off. There seems to be a big washer pressed on or something.

With a careful hand and sharp eye, one of those abrasive cut-off wheels in a side-grinder or die-grinder works really good to just slice the thing in two.

A torch is quicker, but more scary.

Put the new bearing in a not-so-hot oven and lay the shaft in the deep-freeze.

After all night in the freezer, the bearing will almost slide on itself.

 

[Agnem]

OK, so the center bearing was covered by some other kind of mushroom shaped washer that was also pressed on. Heated that with a torch and knocked it off. Then the center bearing was pretty well petrified on there, so that was disassembled with a whizzer wheel, and the inner sleeve cut off. The new one was then tapped on with a punch and a hammer. This thing fought me every inch of the way, but it's all fixed now!

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

I wonder if the old style carrier-bearing that is greasable is available to fit our trucks ??

The guy up the road that has a bunch of tri-axle milk trucks uses a hypodermic shot-needle in COW size to force new grease into sealed carrier-bearings; if he can't get it in there any other way, he will drill a tiny hole, squirt in the grease, and cap the hole with a blob of stick-epoxy.