someone help me. i cant get my axle out of the axle housing on my 1987 warrior...i've tried heating, WD-40, and lots and lots of hitting with a sledge hammer....what am i doing wrong?!?!

 

Yeah, that can sometimes be fun. LOL If you want to keep the axel, buy a nut to thread onto the axel. The stock castle nut won't last too long before tearing up the threads. You have to keep on beating it out. Don't use heat, just pound it out.

 

i did have it covered with a pipe so i wouldnt wreck the threads. this is just driving me nuts...i think its time yamaha gave me a free axle and housing....i got bearings though, so they dont have to gimme that at least.

 

I know how frustrated you are, i've been there. As frustrated as a one-legged ethiopian watching a donut roll down a hill. It took 3 guys and at least 3 hours to get mine out. I took the hub off, put the nut back on, and put a socket over the nut so it woudn't damage anything, and just went nuts with a 5 pound sledge. I ended up with a badly mangled brake rotor, but I got that sumbitch out. It just takes time, and a little brute force. I was seriously considering chaining the end of it to my car and tearing it out that way, but I restrained myself.

HAVE FUN![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

If you heated the axle there is a good chance it will fail on you later when it takes a hard hit.
And why would Yamaha owe you a thing?.......its nearly 20 years old.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img]

 

umm, heating makes things stronger as far as i know...thats why the heat metal then stick it in cold water........i actually kind of like that truck idea....but i guess that has potential to be bad. well, anyways, thanks for the encouragement, i wont give up just yet!

 

Here........
Quench Tempering is the process for making material harder. This method has been known for hundreds of years but was only perfected in the last century. The metal is heated to a specific temperature and rapidly cooled (quenched) in a bath of water, brine, oil, or air to increase its hardness

One drawback of using this method by itself is that the metal becomes brittle

 

notice the last way of cooling listed...air....i happen to have alot of that outside of my house...cold air, on top if it

 

ok, and the skid plate protects it in the event i am dumb and decide to hit my rear axle anyway... thats what there for...and i didnt heat it drastically like it was red hot, just enough to expand the metal and hopefully make more room for the axle to come out.

 

Heating the axle only makes it fit tighter..........once its cools though it may help break free any rust holding it.
You may want to heat the bearing and not the axle next try.