Field tricks to remove inside dually wheel?

Geo*Boy wrote:
Wow Bedlam, my truck has never seen winter salt and never will, but the next time I have a chance I am going to pull the duals and put never seize on the hubs.

Front too

Wow Bedlam, my truck has never seen winter salt and never will, but the next time I have a chance I am going to pull the duals and put never seize on the hubs.

Glad you solved the problem. Are you open to suggestions? Pull all the wheels, and put anti-seize on all the hubs to reduce future problems.

I’m interested in those pictures, Bedlam. Never encountered this issue.

BobsYourUncle wrote:
I carry a lot of tools with me including an 8 pound sledgehammer. I put a block of wood across the wheel so it straddled the top of the rim and clobbered it with the sledge. It took a few tries but I eventually dislodged it. Gotta be careful not to hit the rim directly. I rotated the wheel between hits.

Sledgehammer or pry bar, it's what the tire shops use.....

I found running ratchet straps through the rim and putting a wooden block centered on hub put enough even force on the rim to free it. Just when I got it free, I got a call that service was 5 minutes out. I'll post up some pictures tomorrow when we are on the OR coast.

Shock and awe. Hit it with some type of steel you hold in one hand and big hammer in the other. Place steel between the lugs and WHACK it.

I went through that a number of years ago. Try as I may, that thing wasn't coming off the hub.

Here is how I freed mine:

I carry a lot of tools with me including an 8 pound sledgehammer. I put a block of wood across the wheel so it straddled the top of the rim and clobbered it with the sledge. It took a few tries but I eventually dislodged it. Gotta be careful not to hit the rim directly. I rotated the wheel between hits.

Mine was rusted onto the hub at the very back. It was the rust holding it on there.

I would drive very slowly with the lugs loose.

You might be able to get a small steel chisel between the rotor/drum on the rim openings and give it a couple of wacks with the tire iron. it's worked for a couple of cars that had seized rims. Then apply anti seize to the mating surface, sparingly. Another trick I used on trucks if you don't have a heavy load, loosen the wheel nuts about 1/2 to 3/4 turn and make some really sharp left right turns, that often cracks them loose too.