| Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,760 | That hub assembly should slide straight off the load tube. Sometimes it requires a little "persuasion". I like to bolt a piece of heavy chain to one or two of the threaded holes where the axle shaft attaches, and use a "whiplash" motion to yank the hub off the tube. Once the hub is off, it's a fairly simple job to pry the seal out and remove the inner bearing. I seem to remember one of the medium duty Chevy/GMC truck rear hubs that has a bearing race retained in the hub by a big snap ring. It takes a special pair of snap ring pliers and a few colorful vocabulary words to get that ring out! Jerry
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