Frozen Spindle on Running Gear

I purchased a nice Westendorf Running Gear and I cannot get one spindle free. The other side is fine. I have tried heating the assembly that holds the spindle. No Luck. I took the top cover off the spindle and made a little fence around the top of the spindle and filled it full of penetrating oil. No Luck. I pulled it around the yard with the tractor and can get it to move some but is really tight in that spindle. Does anybody have any other ideas? I sure could use them. I do not know what else to try. Thanks----
 
Press the spindle out of the running gear. Clean and lubricate the spindle and the tube it goes in. Reinstall the spindle.
 
not real sure on this spindle setup. but anyhow it will need to come apart and get rust removed and lubed up. most likely need heat and an air chizel and use a punch to vibrate it free, plus jack and sledge hammer. pretty much the same as replacing kingpins on the fords. i am presuming thats how its made. i have removed some pretty ornary kingpins on some of them old chev gravel trucks, where people forget what a grease gun is used for.
 
I had one one time that I had to take a cutoff wheel and split the tube to get the spindle out and then weld it back up.

Bob
 
I have done quite a few in the Blacksmith forge you need even heat all the way around tube and spindle will fall out on the ground. I never could get enough heat with the rosebud plus the coal fire doesn't make the metal brittle. After the spindle is out I hone the tube, polish spindle and grease really good and keep them greased so it don't happen again.
 
When I worked in ag retail we did these on ammonia wagons ALL the time. We had a "punch" (2" round bar) welded to a 3' 1" square tube handle. One guy would heat with the rosebud, one guy would hold the "punch" and the other guy would swing the sledge. It was fairly successful, but some could be a real bear. More than one got left over night and it was super lose or on the ground the next morning.
 
I just went through that on a NH running gear that had sat out for 20 some years. Heat was the only thing that worked for me. I heat and let it cool I bet a dozen times. Alternated between heating just the tube,just the spindle and the whole dang thing. I banged on it all over many times too. When it finally started moving the smallest little bit, I just worked it back and forth a ton of times and doused repeatedly with motor oil, cold. Clean , lube and loose as a goose now.
 
I have pressed a couple out with a bottle jack. Take two bottle jacks. Set one on the frame and set the other on top of the spindle. Put a large piece of metal over the two jacks. I then wrapped a chain around the frame and over the top of the piece of metal that is on top of the jacks. Use the jack that is over the spindle to push it down. I needed to put a spacer over the spindle, and under the jack to get it all the way out. The bad thing about this method is that the chain is a very poor way of holding this together. Bolt it in place or tack weld would be better.
SDE
 

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