{"id":52020,"date":"2017-06-01T07:38:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T12:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=52020"},"modified":"2017-06-01T07:38:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T12:38:18","slug":"2001-f150-5-4l-svt-removing-rear-axle-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2017\/06\/2001-f150-5-4l-svt-removing-rear-axle-races","title":{"rendered":"2001 F150 5.4L SVT – Removing Rear axle races"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2001Outer bearing races will not come out. I’ve used two different types of slide hammer pullers. All that is left are the outer races. I started making some conservative “x” cuts with a dremmel on the race , but I am concerned about going any deeper at risk of cutting into axle housing. What else can I do. Need some advice!<\/p>\n

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Removing Rear axle races<\/h4>\n

In my shop what we used to do in order to get races out was to use heat. I have found that the best way to apply heat to the race is to use a wire welder. Weld a bead all the way around the inside of the race and it will pop right out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outer bearing races will not come out. I’ve used two different types of slide hammer pullers. All that is left are the outer races. I started making some conservative “x” cuts with a dremmel on the race , but I am concerned about going any deeper at risk of cutting into axle housing. What else… Read More »2001 F150 5.4L SVT – Removing Rear axle races<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[409,10157,11558,11559],"class_list":["post-52020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-ford","tag-f150","tag-rear-axle","tag-rear-axle-races","tag-removing-rear-axle-races"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}