Help with tractor wheel!!!
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Help!!!
HELP!! I need suggestions ASAP. I have been fighting with a wheel that has rusted onto the shaft. I NEED IT OFF BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON!! I have tried welding around the shaft to get it hot, using liq wrench, WD-40, beating it with a hammer...im out of ideas....i DO NOT want to cut it off...HELP PLEASE!!!!! THANKS
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Sometimes if you leave the lug nuts loose and drive the vehicle with some sudden stops and turns the wheel will break loose. That might get dangerous in a tractor tho. There are lots of tractor people that visit the general automotive forum so I will move your post there for more ideas.
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Whenever we have a tire or rim that wont come off, we use a hydralic spreader and if it doesnt pop it right off, it puts enough pressure on it that you can hit it with a big hammer and then it will pop off!
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I wish i had a hydraulic spreader lol.... I am going to try and take the tire off and take straps and tension them to pull on the wheel and then hit it with a sledge hammer and heat it. I can't drive it because the shifter is messed up....
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I'm assuming you are talking about a lawn tractor. If so, make sure there is not a snap ring that holds the hub on the axle shaft.
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that might be more of a last resort type idea though
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i am SO close to just tying the rim to the 350's tow hook and yanking it backwards.....SO CLOSE. This wheel sure doesn't to come off AT ALL....nothing has ever put up such a fight...Worked on it for 2 hours today and it didn't even budge....Any other ideas?
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Well folks...I got some bad news... decided to make sure 4wd worked on the super duty 
, put it in 4 low, tied the wheel to the front tow hook, tied the other axle end to the explorer's trailer hitch, put the tranny in R then let the truck idle backwards....until POP....got out hoping to find the wheel popped off....NOPE....The wheel is stuck to the shaft so good that it popped one of the bolts i had holding it together off and took a little chunk of the axle houseing off....
NOW WHAT...the shaft isn't bent but the housing has seen better days...
, put it in 4 low, tied the wheel to the front tow hook, tied the other axle end to the explorer's trailer hitch, put the tranny in R then let the truck idle backwards....until POP....got out hoping to find the wheel popped off....NOPE....The wheel is stuck to the shaft so good that it popped one of the bolts i had holding it together off and took a little chunk of the axle houseing off.... NOW WHAT...the shaft isn't bent but the housing has seen better days...