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Inner drive wheel stuck on
Wondering if anyone has any tips on getting the inner drive wheel to pop off. Mine is wedged on there pretty good.
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Please, show us a picture.
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When I brought my bus home is 2020, the last time the tires were removed was 2003. My Inner drives were fused to the brake drums, so much that I had to use an orbital sander to remove the corrosion on the wheel and drum faces. What i did is get a long pry bar, and with the axle supported, i put the prybar under the tire at the 6:00 position and lifted the pry bar up while spinning the wheel, it took like 3 revolutions and it finally broke free.
Mike Harper
2004 Marathon XLII -
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You have to take the lug nuts off
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You need a square socket for those.
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Well that makes a lot more sense . I thought the outer lug nuts were it. Anyway, I ended up not needing to take it off, as I was able to get to an air fitting I needed to replace with just the one wheel off. Thanks for the help!
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I thought the same thing the first time I took my outers off.
You have stud piloted wheels with bud nuts that require a bud socket. New buses have hub piloted wheels with normal lug nuts.
You need a “bud” socket: 1/1/2″ x 13/16″ in whatever drive size (1″ or 3/4″) you use.The outer nut comes off with the 1 1/2″ hex. The inner comes of with the 13/16″ square drive which is deeper in the same socket.NAPA, amazon, etc.Mike Harper
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Scary Stuff here:
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