Geo Metro wheel hub removal

I am replacing the brake rotors in the 1990 Geo Metro. The rotors are
behind the wheel hub, which can only be removed by taking the axle nut off,
and using a slide hammer to pull the hub off the axle. I am not all that
familiar with the use of a slide hammer. I bought a slide hammer from
harborfreight, but the jaws don't seem to be large enough to fit around the
wheel hub. I looked around, and most slide hammers are of the same
diamater. Is there a special trick to pull the hub off, or am I missing
something obvious?





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Andrew

There is a attachment that screws on the end of the slidehammer that
has three fingers w/sloted holes that span across the hub and you can
screw the lug nuts to. You may have to look around for one that has a
rise tall enough to clear the hub. (this setup was used for pulling the
axles out of the rearend of rear drive cars.) I couldn't find one, so
what I did was go to a hardware store and got some chain that would fit
over the lug studs and put a nut and washer on the end of the
slidehammer through the links. Shade Tree engineering but it works

Rick

"Andrew Sarangan" > wrote in message
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> I am replacing the brake rotors in the 1990 Geo Metro. The rotors are
> behind the wheel hub, which can only be removed by taking the axle nut
off,
> and using a slide hammer to pull the hub off the axle. I am not all that
> familiar with the use of a slide hammer. I bought a slide hammer from
> harborfreight, but the jaws don't seem to be large enough to fit around
the
> wheel hub. I looked around, and most slide hammers are of the same
> diamater. Is there a special trick to pull the hub off, or am I missing
> something obvious?
>

Be very careful with those Harbor Freight slide hammers. They use cheap
steel and
you can fracture them. A much better tool is a slide hammer from NAPA. IT
looks
almost identical to the Harbor Freight one but you will not break it.

Ted

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Thanks for that idea. I used a few chain links to attach slide hammer
to the lug nuts. It worked fine.