52 JD G

[6BuchTractorRed]

How do you free the rear wheels that are frozen to the axles. Have removed the locking hub, loosened the wheel bolts, used penetration oil, secured a heavy plate with bolts to axle hub and placed a 20 ton jack between plate and axle stub but can't get it to move. Any suggestions.

 

[Mark Poss]

What wheel bolts did you loosen? The collar should be the only thing that clamps the hub to the axle. Try driving in around hitting the brakes. You may need to heat with a torch.

 

[BillinCentralMO]

How do you free the rear wheels that are frozen to the axles. Have removed the locking hub, loosened the wheel bolts, used penetration oil, secured a heavy plate with bolts to axle hub and placed a 20 ton jack between plate and axle stub but can't get it to move. Any suggestions.

Curse louder . Helps with volume , if you smash some of your appendages.

 

[ss55]

What wheel bolts did you loosen? The collar should be the only thing that clamps the hub to the axle. Try driving in around hitting the brakes. You may need to heat with a torch.

If the axle clamps are stubborn, turning sharply in alternating directions while fully locking the steering brakes can sometimes break them loose.
Use caution, loosen the clamp bolts but do not remove them so the wheel does not fall off when the axle clamp does finally break loose.

 

[matthies]

Last two A JD's I worked on, I drove around. Like 4 miles, but also on some slopes to put more pressure on the hubs, but don't know what the temps are where you live. Leave the jack on if you can. Though, I worked on a 1937 A that the wheels came off the tractor and the hubs stayed on the axle, put them in a 50 ton press to get those to move.

 

[teddy52food]

Just think of all the trouble it would have saved if they would have put the flywheels on the 2 cylinder tractors that way!

 

[dlbuck]

I have a 1938 John Deere G that I used the same procedure as you are doing. I also used heat and some lite hammering, left the jack all the time, every so often I would pump the jack and a squirt of penetrating oil. It took about a week and it finally came loose.

 

[jd56]

seems like I have always heard to hit the end of the axle to nbreak hub loose

 

[6BuchTractorRed]

What wheel bolts did you loosen? The collar should be the only thing that clamps the hub to the axle. Try driving in around hitting the brakes. You may need to heat with a torch.

Tried all those things. Loosen the wheel bolts to the hub incase there was any play in the bolt holes. Will keep trying.

 

[Brownie450]

Piece of double wall pipe that fits over the axle.
Belt it with a 20 pound sledge.
Jim

 

[6BuchTractorRed]

Piece of double wall pipe that fits over the axle.
Belt it with a 20 pound sledge.
Jim

May try that if the hydraulic doesn't work.

 

[dlbuck]

Piece of double wall pipe that fits over the axle.
Belt it with a 20 pound sledge.
Jim

" You"re a Better Man Than I Am Gunga Din" if you can swing a 20 pound sledge.

 

[Mark Poss]

You need to take those clamps off the wheels. Try driving wedges in the slots. I have made pullers with heavy plate and 5/8 ready rod

 

[Devin Down South]

Curse louder . Helps with volume , if you smash some of your appendages.

X2. This method has yet to fail me.

 

[dlbuck]

You need to take those clamps off the wheels. Try driving wedges in the slots. I have made pullers with heavy plate and 5/8 ready rod

Yes, I did make wedges for the slots. My memory is something I really miss.

 

[Brownie450]

I used to be a lot stronger than now. Might not have been
a 20 pound hammer, but easily weighed over 15 pounds.
Landlord was working on restoring an old G with stuck
clamps such as you are fighting. He had been using the
same process [pen. oil, wedges] as you. He wondered
if I could try anything that might work. I looked in the
stock of cut-offs & came up with the double wall pipe.
Took the pipe & hammer down when the landlord was
gone & it took 3 belts with the hammer to loosen the
clamps.
Moral of the story----don't get old.
Jim

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

I worked on my A for weeks and couldn't budge it. 6-ton jack and chains, then a piece of old draw bar and the 3/4x18 bolts from my MoCo float springs along with PB, wedges and the rosebud. Finally gave up and just left the clamp ring off but it's still stuck.

 

[MSD]

I ended up cutting the hub with the clamp removed and finally got it to come off. Used a sawsall l and it cut right through it. Even then one section was stuck tight to the axle. Won't hurt a thing with it in 3 pieces instead of 2. Been running it that way on my wife's pulling tractor since 2014.