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Hoarder needs help

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partsandservice

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I must make a confession, I am a Hoarder. Cat parts hoarder to be exact. Anyway I have a damaged axle housing that I would like to remove the planetary ring gear before scrapping. Any ideas on how to remove this gear? Prefix 525
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If you need help with your hoarding, feel free to ship me some of the more valuable forestry parts and I will store them for you. No need to thank me, I’m just a helpful guy like that.
 
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I would try making cuts on the housing where the four pins hold the gear. Cut into the pin some. Hit with hammer on the outer housing areas. With luck it will release the gear.
 
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This thread scared me. I was afraid you were going to ship us all some stuff, and I don't know what I'd do with anymore, but... I will find somewhere.
 
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Don't we all have space issues in our garages! I just used up some old foundation tar based sealer and some old 6x6's I had lying around. Nevermind the fact I held onto them for about 5 years before finding a project to use them on. Perfect encouragement for any hoarder. I dream of a junkyard someday..... My wife disagrees. Haha
 
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Cmark said:
Liquid nitrogen at around -300F.
You only get one chance with this kind of thing and if it doesn't go in first time, you've got to gas out $1000 worth of ring gear and start again.
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Are the dowels in before or do you just have to put then in before it expands in place? I could see having a set of pins a couple thousands under size to use a guides.
 
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kshansen said:
Are the dowels in before or do you just have to put then in before it expands in place? I could see having a set of pins a couple thousands under size to use a guides.
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It's a long time since I did it, but notice I've put a yellow paint mark at about 1.0 o'clock. I would say that this means the gear will only fit in one position. I imagine that at least one of the dowels would be in place first as the risk of having to rotate the gear slightly once installed would be too great.

I've got a few more pictures of this repair and if anyone is interested, I'll put them in a separate thread.
 
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Flat Thunder Channel said:
Don't we all have space issues in our garages! I just used up some old foundation tar based sealer and some old 6x6's I had lying around. Nevermind the fact I held onto them for about 5 years before finding a project to use them on. Perfect encouragement for any hoarder. I dream of a junkyard someday..... My wife disagrees. Haha
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We had a cabinet at work that was full of brake shoes and pads we couldnt cross the PN so today i scraped them if i had alot of storage room i would have saved some of them. I did save 2 sets of shoes that look like they fit GM pickups.
 
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