Re: Getting stuck wheel off

Posted by frankiee on July 24, 2005 at 07:33:32 from (69.198.194.170):

In Reply to: Getting stuck wheel off posted by Otto on July 23, 2005 at 17:17:25:

I will reply to your quest just because I see that no one else has.
I can not picture your set up in my head.
Can you send a digital picture.
I worked in a Auto scrap yard for 7 years so I know a few tricks but almost have to be there.
I know that when I had a stuck auto wheel on I would have a large pry bar (6 feet) and pry it off while rotating the wheel and at the same time heat ing the hub of the wheel with a torch.
The problem is that the torch will turn the metal to a different metal if it gets too hot in that place. Depends on the metal of the wheel that it is.
You could have somebody else with another torch or two to heat the outside of the wheel so that the whole wheel is heating up to help prevent carbon migration.
Some times it takes a lot of heat. A lot.
Some times it took so much heat that I would never trust the wheel again.
I would work back and forth with heating the entire wheel moderately and a large pry bar.
You may need 3 people.
How bout if you went to the local scrap yard and seen if a seasoned worker could come out and work at it.
I used have mechanics come to me and ask how to take stuck things apart. After all, thats what I did pretty much all the time. Take junk apart in a way that we could resell it.
Even though I was almost magic with them torches back then there was still things that were stuck together so thight that after about 4 hours I would just have to give up.
Good luck.

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