These scenarios happen on a daily basis working on semi trucks for a living. You DO NOT want to heat up the axle at all unless you want to shock it. The point of using heat is to expand the metal, so you want to heat up on side of the hub as fast as you can. If you heat up the axle your just expanding the axle even worse.
Now the whole problem wth heating up the hub is the axle is in the inner race of the bearing. When you heat up the hub, your heating up the hub and outer race of the bearing, when we want the inner race to expand faster than the axle. This just wont happen heating the outside of the hub.
#1. Heat up the inner race with an acetylene torch as fast as possible, one side only of the inner race if you can get to it, I cant see it to tell if you can. Do this this while you have pressure on the shaft, and it should pop.
#2. I dont know how evo hubs are put together, but maybe you can take the bearing out with the axle, especially since the bearing is possibly shot now that heat has been applied to it. What holds the bearing in? Is it pressed in? You could then heat up one side of the hub as fast as you can and pull the bearing out with the axle.
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Originally Posted by cmspaz
LOL, you better hope I'm there when you return it.
One thing you might try, I've used it with success on bolts, never on anything as big as an axle, would be to heat the axle and hub up a lot, then spray PB Blaster onto the axle, sometimes the quick change in temperature of one part and not the other is enough to break free some rust.
That's just crazy though, my Talon was never this bad.
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