procedure or Tips on removing bearing

[rafs409]

Hi

A friend and I will be removing my 64 Impala rear axle bearing tomorrow. Are there any special tools or procedures on removing and installing the bearing. This is the first time I do it so any help would be appreciated so we are not stuck scratching our heads all day trying to figure it out:scratch


Rafael

[models916]

Pull the axle and take it to a driveline place and have it pressed off. I don't think you can get it off yourself. You could probably put a new bearing on yourself, but why risk it with the cost of a mistake soooooo high.

[rafs409]

thanks for the reply models,

The bearing at the axle tube end will come out with the axel? Ive never done this so I hope this is not a dumb question. I thought it would stay in the axle tube.

Rafael

[Ronnie Russell]

Rafael, The bearing is pressed on the axle. 4 nuts on the inside of the retainer plate. You may have to rent a slide hammer puller to dislodge the axle. You can put the brake drum on the axle backwards, put lug nuts on the lug bolts and try popping the axle out . Once the axle is out , follow models advice and take to a machine shop to replace the bearing. Replacing the bearing is something you do NOT want to try yourself.

[rafs409]

Hey guys

Thanks for the advice It will make the job easier.

Rafael

[jester]

You can also use a piece of chain bolted to one or two of the wheel studs. Then use it in a snapping motion to pull the axle. Good luck.

[tripowerguy]

You poor young guys. I have a tool that I have had for 40 years that fits behind axle flange and pushs the axle out of the axle housing. It has never failed to push one out. Maybe I need to start copying it and help all you young whiper snappers out. The name of the tool is R and J's New Improved axle puller for 1955 thru 1964 Chevrolet.:deal Roy

[rstreet]

You poor young guys. I have a tool that I have had for 40 years that fits behind axle flange and pushs the axle out of the axle housing. It has never failed to push one out. Maybe I need to start copying it and help all you young whiper snappers out. The name of the tool is R and J's New Improved axle puller for 1955 thru 1964 Chevrolet.:deal Roy

Roy Duplicate it and make some retirement money:rofl :rofl :rofl
Robert

[rafs409]

Hey Guys,

Got it off and the place where I bought the bearing took old one off and put new one on. Axle is on car and everything is working.

Thanks for the advice,
Rafael the Whiper snapper

[Ronnie Russell]

Rafael, That is good news about your bearing. These old cars are not complicated. You will find that any problem you come up against, you can usually fix the problem by rolling up both sleeves and diving in. If you should run into something you are unsure of, there is always someone on this site that can give you guidance.

[skipxt4]

Roy: I'm 60, and have heard the term my whole life. Just what the h*ll is a whipper snapper?:doh :rofl Like Seinfeld said, (the master of his domain) ?:rofl :rofl

[tripowerguy]

I'm 68 and I always heard the term used when I was growing up. I looked it up in my Funk and Wagnal to see what it means. I owe all you young guys an apology. It's kind of insulting.Whippersnapper [all one word] Means, an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young person. So I guess I shouldn't use an adjective unless I know for sure what it means. I'm sorry if anyone took offense.:bow Roy

[models916]

A few nineteenth-century examples: "Dost thou think it's nat'ral noo, that having such a proper mun as thou to keep company wi', I'd ever tak' opp wi' such a leetle scanty whipper-snapper as yon?" (Dickens, Nicholas Nickelby); "They think I am very stiff and cool, most of them, and so I am to whippersnappers" (Louisa May Alcott, Little Women); "...had unnaturally been jealous that a young whipper-snapper of a pupil...should become a Parliament man" (Trollope, Phineas Finn).

The word whippersnapper--which, as these citations indicate, is often hyphenated--is first recorded in this sense in the late 1690s; there's an example earlier in the seventeenth century, in a book about criminals, that seems to mean 'a rogue; petty criminal'.

Whippersnapper is probably a blend of the earlier whipster and snipper-snapper, themselves first recorded in the late sixteenth century. Snipper-snapper is now obsolete or dialectal; it is based on snip-snap, a gradational compound having various parts of speech all generally referring to "snappiness," as of conversation.

[Ronnie Russell]

The true definition was used by Gabby Hayes many times in movies. Gabby used the term to refer to a "youngster". Usually , while talking to the " Duke". :brow

[oldskydog]

Roy,
Don't start apologizing to those "whipper-snappers" now. You'll never hear the end of it.:rofl

[jester]

I'm 68 and I always heard the term used when I was growing up. I looked it up in my Funk and Wagnal to see what it means. I owe all you young guys an apology. It's kind of insulting.Whippersnapper [all one word] Means, an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young person. So I guess I shouldn't use an adjective unless I know for sure what it means. I'm sorry if anyone took offense.:bow Roy


Un-important, I need to think about, but " offensively presumptuous person"?
How could any guy take offense to that handle?:rofl :rofl Thanks for the complement

[blumun53]

Whipper was a term used ages ago for intelligent conversation. A whipper snapper refered to someone who would come up to those having the conversation and interject usually an unintelligent addition to the conversation. Thus the term 'whipper-snapper', because he had snapped the conversation. Wanna know how I know this?:cool:

[jester]

Whipper was a term used ages ago for intelligent conversation. A whipper snapper refered to someone who would come up to those having the conversation and interject usually an unintelligent addition to the conversation. Thus the term 'whipper-snapper', because he had snapped the conversation. Wanna know how I know this?:cool:

In a word" no " LOL