Removing Rear Hubs On Evo

[evo-gsr]

Did you not mention pulling the hub off with a slide hammer while others suggest pressing it out?
I rest my case.
I have the answer to my original question, that I needed now, either way.

 

[khubner1]

Yes you use the slide hammer to seperate the hub from the lower control arm which makes the bearing separate into two peices. These two peices are the center race and outer race which are then pressed off the parts they remain on after wards. I wish I took photos of the bearing when I did them as the center race pulls from the bearing quite easily.

As I said I have done this before on my cc coupe which has a cc gsr awd conversion. The gsr rear is the same as evo.

Please don't assume to know what I have and haven't done as everything I have done with my car excluding the welding of the awd conversion as been done by myself. Having a complete mechanical workshop at my disposal kind of helps. I run taxis up here on the coast and when you run asana as we do you tend to get the necessary tools to complete the work also having a mechanic on retainer helps there are a few things I don't know how to do and on those issues I do indeed keep quiet but so far about the only thing I haven't done with a cc lancer is gearbox/differential rebuilding.

 

[BMGTZ]

If you actually read what I posted you would see that it mentions the control arm and pressing the bearing out of it. It just does not picture the entire arm. To save space. I would take a screen shot an d point out exactly where it says trailing arm with a small cross section illustrating how the bearing assembles by being pressed into the arm but I'm on my phone right now

I haven't contradicted anything the above have said merely supplied you with the manufacturers instruction for removal and assembly

If any one would like to confirm that I have posted the correct instructions that'd be great

I have looked at the manual you posted and while in theory it is correct.....doing it this way is just harder.it means you have to take the hub off while the trailing arm is still in the car as if it is out of the car...you cant hold it and get enough force with the slide hammer to break the hub free. Since you need to take the arm out...as mentioned in the manual you posted....to press out the out race of the wheel bearing, might just as well use the press to get the hub out too.

There is no right or wrong way....just a hard way and an easy way.

 

[evo-gsr]

Thanks Brian. :thumbsup:

 

[khubner1]

all good brian but if your using the mitsi tools you don't have to pull the arm out as the use a screw type pres to pull it all together. why anyone would use one of those when hydraulic ones are available for so cheap is a mystery to me but as far as dissaembly went thats how i got it all apart.

 

[Golfer2000]

Just to stir the pot some more my rear trailing arms were not bolted up to the car and posed a real awkward piece to try to press out the bearings on (I tried that first) without some sort of rig or thought process that I did not have. Well I found a pretty good deal on a slide hammer yesterday and I had no issues pulling out the hubs with the slide hammer. Now that the hubs are removed I was able to access the retaining ring and will have a nice even, flat surface to put onto the press.

BMGTZ, on 03 Aug 2013 - 9:16 PM, said:


I have looked at the manual you posted and while in theory it is correct.....doing it this way is just harder.it means you have to take the hub off while the trailing arm is still in the car as if it is out of the car...you cant hold it and get enough force with the slide hammer to break the hub free. Since you need to take the arm out...as mentioned in the manual you posted....to press out the out race of the wheel bearing, might just as well use the press to get the hub out too.

There is no right or wrong way....just a hard way and an easy way.

 

[Golfer2000]

It was pretty clear to me that the manual doesn't suggest the job can be done with the trailing arm on the car. As a matter of fact I followed the manual to the T and it worked great (I don't see Mitsubishi making a manual for a process that cant be done) with the slide hammer.

khubner1, on 03 Aug 2013 - 7:32 PM, said:

If you actually read what I posted you would see that it mentions the control arm and pressing the bearing out of it. It just does not picture the entire arm. To save space. I would take a screen shot an d point out exactly where it says trailing arm with a small cross section illustrating how the bearing assembles by being pressed into the arm but I'm on my phone right now

I haven't contradicted anything the above have said merely supplied you with the manufacturers instruction for removal and assembly

If any one would like to confirm that I have posted the correct instructions that'd be great

 

[evo-gsr]

Only one year too late joining the discussion.......

 

[MDK87]

Lol at this thread. :lol:
Fuck, I'm not looking forward to doing this on my VR4.

 

[evo-gsr]

Lol alright.

Its easy Mo.....use a press! Lol.

 

[Dave_GSR1.8]

Not being terribly experienced on the mechanical front any new info is always welcome for me, even if a bit late!!

It's always good to collect as much experience as possible so that I can work out the best way to try something. The problem is evo-gsr is that you are usually right, so additional info may not add much value, but I always like to see new info so that i can use this forum as the font of all GSR wisdom !

 

[Golfer2000]

evo-gsr, on 11 Sept 2014 - 06:31 AM, said:

Only one year too late joining the discussion.......

People will refer back to this thread with the search feature and I don't want them to believe you cannot or should not use a slide hammer to accomplish removing the hubs. I just wanted to clarify