Trailer axle help

stryped fired this volley in news:a7003f60-7ae2-4d03- snipped-for-privacy@35g2000prp.googlegroups.com:

it's been, what? Most of a year to do one garage? A weekend's work!

LLoyd

:-)

I'm pointing out that he *should* have a lathe, and other serious tools if he is asking questions like this here.

I remember him asking a bunch of clueless questions about wiring , and I think that I killfiled him at that time -- but the entry must have expired. :-)

A usual poster here I would not have been quite so curt about the possession of a lathe, as someone who is new to the group may not yet have tools but be interested in acquiring them. But he has been here long enough so he should be acquiring tools if he is interested in actually *doing* things.

I guess it is time to toss him back into the killfile. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

Depends. If by "a set" you mean left and right front bearings for a Jeep, I WISH a "set" was only $96 !

For instance,

or

plus installation.

Went aftermarket.

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You can virtually bet the farm that if the outer bearing is tapered, so is the inner. The two are incompatible in the same hub as one wants clearance, and the other preload..

If your outer bearing is a tapered roller, the inner WILL be as well. I'm betting it's a Chevy pickup axle

You need a tapered drift punch and a hammer.There are "notches" in the hub that you can get to the back of the cup with a punch - hit progressively around the race until it comes out.

If it is a Chevy hub, most likely a standard trailer hub will not fit. What bolt pattern is it???

Anyway, I will take the other bearing out and inspect it but I

I do not own a lathe. Am I allowed to post a suggestion? I do know how to remove a race from a hub fast. Take a stick welder and turn up the amps to make an ugly hot bead. One hot pass around the race, take your hammer and hit it and it will fall out. I have seen people heat and beat for seemed like an eternity, I guarantee it will work. I have even removed mud pump valve seats rusted in with a welder, hammer, and a short piece of allthread.

Scott in Texas

Boy, Stormy - you are living dangerously using lubricant and that 4 letter "word" in the same sentance!!!!

Sure -- if you have good advice, go with it.

That would be fine -- except that he wants to take the races out to look at the numbers and to *inspect* them. Run that bead, and there is no point to inspecting the race -- other than to find the part number for the replacement.

I've also used an air hammer with a ground down pin punch in it to remove an outer race from a front brake disc/hub.

Enjoy, DoN.

"Stormin Mormon" fired this volley in news:irsd5t$sl7$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Yeah, me too. Only this time it will be, "should I rent a bearing puller?"

I wish my young folks had half of his motivation. If they did, I could have them committed to a home for the retarded, and worry no more.

LLoyd

snipped-for-privacy@snyder.on.ca fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Clare, lest you go sideways in your arguments... Mormons do a LOT of that

4-letter word, as evidenced by their large broods of missionaries. (got LOTs of them around here. A few are really good folks)

LLoyd

I was referring to the "wd-40 wars" on this group in the past.

Gunner Asch on Fri, 27 May 2011 15:01:31 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

Fnord, we're in the wrong field. We could run companies into the ground for a fraction of what those bozos are costing the companies.

Too many "Business Majors". I want more people in charge like the class mate vote "least likely to succeed." The guy who shows up at the 20 year reunion with the fancy car, the gorgeous wife, and the expensive suit. When asked what he does, says "I buy stuff for a dollar, and sell it for two. Amazing how that one percent adds up."

tschus pyotr

This dates back to just before the 2010 election, but this the first time that I heard about it. It seems unbelievable, but I can't find the hoax if there is one. If you can give me a logical reason Obama would have turned down IBM's offer, I will be very grateful to you.

IBM offered to help reduce Medicare for free

IBM offered to help reduce Medicare Fraud for free Sam Palmisano, IBM CEO

What if I told you that the Chairman and CEO of IBM, Samuel J. Palmisano, approached President Obama and members of his administration before the healthcare bill debates with a plan that would reduce healthcare expenditures by $900 billion? Given the Obama Administration?s adamancy that the United States of America simply had to make healthcare (read: health insurance) affordable for even the most dedicated welfare recipient, one would think he would have leaned forward in his chair, cupped his ear and said, ?Tell me more!? And what if I told you that the cost to the federal government for this program was nothing, zip, nada, zilch?

And, what if I told you that, in the end and after two meetings, President Obama and his team, instead of embracing a program that was proven to save money and one that was projected to save almost one trillion dollars ? a private sector program costing the taxpayers nothing, zip, nada, zilch ? said, ?Thanks but no thanks? and then embarked on passing one of the most despised pieces of legislation in UShistory?

Well, it?s all true. see video:

Samuel J. Palmisano, the Chairman of the Board and CEO for IBM, said in a recent Wall Street Journalinterview that he offered to provide the Obama Administration with a program that would curb healthcare claims fraud and abuse by almost one trillion dollars but the Obama White House turned the offer down.

Mr. Palmisano is quoted as saying during a taping (click here to see ) of The Wall Street Journal's Viewpoints program on September 14, 2010:

"We could have improved the quality and reduced the cost of the healthcare system by $900 billion...I said we would do it for free to prove that it works. They turned us down."

A second meeting between Mr. Palmisano and the Obama Administration took place two weeks later, with no change in the Obama Administration's stance. A call placed to IBM on October 8, 2010, by FOX News confirmed, via a spokesperson, that Mr Palmisano stands by his statement.

Speaking with FOX News' Stuart Varney, Mort Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief of US News & World Report, said, "It's a little bit puzzling because I think there is a huge amount of both fraud and inefficiency that American business is a lot more comfortable with and more effective in trying to reduce. And this is certainly true because the IBM people have studied this very carefully. And when Palmisano went to the White House and made that proposal, it was based upon a lot of work and it was not accepted. And it's really puzzling...These are very, very responsible people. They don't have a political ax to grind.. They are very familiar with the subject; they understand exactly what the issues are."

Given the fact that Mr. Obama?s own Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services actuary debunked the claim that health insurance costs would diminish over the next decade and given that the budget deficits for 2010 and 2011 are in the $1.2 trillion?$1.4 trillion ballpark, the question begs to be asked: Why would Mr. Obama balk at a sure-thing savings of almost $1 trillion?

Cost projections prepared by economists at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), revealed the nation's healthcare spending, as a share of the economy, will be 0.3 percentage points higher in 2019 than estimated before the law was passed. That CMS report, published September 9, 2010, in the journal Health Affairs, also revealed healthcare spending will grow by an average of 6.3 percent each year over the next decade, whereas pre-reform projections pegged annual growth at 6.1 percent.

CMS actuaries also say that Medicare cuts mandated by the law are unrealistic and unsustainable. An April 22, 2010, CMS report about the financial and coverage effects of selected provisions of the new law estimates that about 15 percent of hospitals and other healthcare providers could lose money treating Medicare beneficiaries as a result of the proposed cuts.

And the Congressional Budget Office is projecting that the deficit for the 2010 budget year, which ended Sept. 30, will total $1.29 trillion. The Obama administration has projected that the deficit for the 2011 budget year, which began on Oct. 1, will climb to $1.4 trillion and that over the next decade, it will total $8.47 trillion.

So, again, I ask you, with the main issue being the economy, including the audacious spending habits of elected officials in Washington DC, why would Mr. Obama and his team balk at facilitating not only the saving of almost $1 trillion in healthcare expenditures, but the opportunity to affect an issue victory in the 2010 midterm election cycle? Mr. Zuckerman concluded,

"When you are in a situation where this country is facing a huge deficit and where anybody who knows anything at all about the healthcare system knows how much waste, fraud and abuse is involved in that system...not to take this offer up, frankly, does not make sense."

Mr. Zuckerman is correct, but only to a point. It doesn?t make sense if Mr. Obama is trying to reduce waste and fraud, and make health insurance affordable for all Americans. It does make sense if those were never the goals in the first place.

As I wrote in an article titled, Cloward, Piven & Obamacare, "...the goal of the Progressives is to crash the system; to overwhelm the system to such an extent that it fails. It is at this moment of failure that Progressives believe they can enter the situation as the knight in shining armor. It is at this particular moment of vulnerability that Progressives believe the American public will acquiesce to the false choice of something is better than nothing; to a government-run universal healthcare plan to rescue the devastated American healthcare system, a system Progressives themselves threw into chaos, courtesy of their ridiculous health insurance reform law".

As an aside, keeping this plan in mind, it makes perfect sense that Progressives and Liberal Democrats wouldn't waste their time reading the massive health insurance reform bill. They never intended for it to be around long enough for it to matter. It is one thing to be ( as a good many elected officials in Washington DC are ) arrogant, self-absorbed spendthrifts, so detached from the actualities of what Americans require and want from their government. It is quite another to willfully abuse the system ( and the American people ) in an attempt to bring about and ideological change ( a fundamental transformation ) of the very system of government that has made the United States the most prosperous nation in the history of the Western Civilization and the last best hope for freedom and liberty for all in the world.

In Mr. Obama?s shunning of a private sector program that would have saved our country almost $1 trillion in healthcare expenditures, presented to him as he declared a "crisis in healthcare ", he proves two things beyond any doubt: that he is anti-Capitalist and anti-private sector in nature and that he can no longer be trusted to tell the truth in both his political declarations or espoused goals.

Apparently, a fabrication. This is a young lady after my own heart:

I dunno, Ed.

Ok, it's Fox news, but it's also from Wall Street News and IBM itself. So I doubt it's a fabrication...

Politicians don't want a clean efficient system.

They want a system they can profit from...

For that you need inefficiency and corruption.

Kinda like Wall Street?

She has enough in there to suggest it was edited all out of shape. I'd certainly want to see that full interview.

That looks an awful lot like IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano... But, of course, it could be a left wing plot...