front hub bearing removal

michaelr

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How to remove bearing from front hub? Were they pressed in towards center? So I need to somehow put a punch through the center hole and pound them out from center? I cannot figure it out. They are in there tighter than heck, and my punch is not making them move either direction. Most people take these to machine shops to have this done?
 
Farmall M. And I think the name of what I am trying to pull out are the two inner dust seals. The opposing ones inside the wheel. I just cannot fathom how they are put in. Only guess is a machine shop has to do it.
 
If you clean up that hub real good I bet you will find there are 2 or more more places made in the hub where you can take a punch and set it in a slit sort of thing and drive to old bearing race out. BTDT too many times over the years
 
(quoted from post at 16:57:13 08/21/16) If you clean up that hub real good I bet you will find there are 2 or more more places made in the hub where you can take a punch and set it in a slit sort of thing and drive to old bearing race out. BTDT too many times over the years

Ya, notches are there, still may ruin the retainers the seals run on.

Ya kinda need the seals & retainers both renewed when the bearings are done.
 
But the seal itself is usually removed by driving out the inner cone, (the part with all the rollers), first. The cone will take out the seal as you drive it out, usually without damage to the seal. So they come out together.
Then you can remove the cups. You will enter the large end with a long punch and remove the outer small cup (race) from the small end, then go in from the small end and remove the large race. As said, look for a couple notches so you can get your punch behind the cup to drive it out. Most times, the back side of the race is exposed enough to catch it with a punch without the presence of notches.
Alternate sides with the punch so the cup doesn't get "cocked" in the bore.
 
(quoted from post at 20:08:46 08/21/16) But the seal itself is usually removed by driving out the inner cone, (the part with all the rollers), first. The cone will take out the seal as you drive it out, usually without damage to the seal. So they come out together.
Then you can remove the cups. You will enter the large end with a long punch and remove the outer small cup (race) from the small end, then go in from the small end and remove the large race. As said, look for a couple notches so you can get your punch behind the cup to drive it out. Most times, the back side of the race is exposed enough to catch it with a punch without the presence of notches.
Alternate sides with the punch so the cup doesn't get "cocked" in the bore.

I am guessing you never worked on of these???????

The seal is mounted on the spindle, not in the bearing bore.
 
But Kevin is absolutely right.
While I have removed hundreds of bearings and seals from hubs during my days as a diesel truck mechanic, I never worked on a Farmall. So it's good to be set straight and I probably shouldn't have assumed that the Farmall hubs were the same as most other hubs.
 
(quoted from post at 09:47:03 08/22/16) But Kevin is absolutely right.
While I have removed hundreds of bearings and seals from hubs during my days as a diesel truck mechanic, I never worked on a Farmall. So it's good to be set straight and I probably shouldn't have assumed that the Farmall hubs were the same as most other hubs.

They have an interesting setup.

Go to parts case ih and you can see a parts breakdown.
 
I made this piece out of 1/2" plate metal.
the drilled holes are to bolt to the hub's dust cover holes.
I then used a gear puller to pull the hub off.
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