Many car owners who prefer to repair a car with their own hands will agree that dismantling a constant velocity joint or a separate part of it (for example, an external “grenade”) is very problematic due to the complexity of the design and the large dimensions of this unit.
To easily remove the external "grenade", often use a homemade puller. In this review we will tell and show how to make such a device. Of the basic materials required:
- two bolts with elongated nuts M14;
- a piece of steel pipe with a diameter of 30 mm;
- metal plates with a thickness of 7 mm;
- 2 long M12 bolts and reinforced washer;
- cage from bearings and a pair of corners.
The main stages of work
First of all, you need to cut a piece of steel pipe lengthwise into two parts using a grinder with a cutting disc. Then grind the resulting segments to the required diameter. Further from a wide strip of metal we cut off workpieces with a length of 90 mm.
Two pieces of 50 mm must be cut from a steel plate. We put pieces of pipe to the plates and make markings to cut a groove under them. This can be done with a grinder or gently burn out by welding.
The result is two workpieces, which, together with the stops in the form of triangular "wedges", are then welded to pipe sections. At the next stage, two strips cut earlier should be welded to the plates.
We cut out the “windows” for the bolts, after which we weld bolts with elongated nuts to the strip sections, and bolts with nuts for tightening to the plate. The result is a compact and very convenient puller for the outer "grenade" SHRUS.
