I am trying to fit new rear suspension control arm on my '88 Fiat 126,
part number 4 here:

http://www.126bis.de/div/126-60.jpg

I removed old one from the car, and now I need to transfer hub to the
new one:

http://www.126bis.de/div/126-48.jpg

I unscrewed the axle stub nut, and tried to pull out the axle stub. It
moves about 5 mm in and out, but that's all. I screwed the nut back on
for a few threads, and hit it with a hammer. Not hard, but axle stub
does not seem to want to go out.

What do I do? Use a larger hammer, or I can damage something?


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In article <20091105070837.59106412 (AT) privacy (DOT) net>, Yvan says...

How big was the hammer you were using? If it was a claw hammer or a
small ball pein, you can hit it as hard as you like all day long and
it'll never move.

Use a proper lump hammer on it. One good whack should see it come out.

Bigger the blob, better the job.

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Well it seems that I managed to break something.

When I removed the first axle stub it come out with half of the bearing.
I could see rollers within grease. I thought that it is suppose to go
out like this, but second one come out without anything, just the axle
stub. I already bolted back the first one and if I tighten the nut by
it is OK, any more - I can not turn axle stub by hand.

I'll probably have to change the bearing :-(




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On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:32:48 +0100, Yvan@office wrote:

It's probably better that you change it now while it's apart rather than
put it all back together and THEN decide you want to change it!



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On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:41:10 -0000, Chris Dugan <chrisdotdugan (AT) virgin (DOT) net>
wrote:

Whilst kind of true they do come apart fairly regularly when you knock the
stub out & normally you can refit them without a huge problem if you can
get the old race off the stub without abusing it.