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hub/lock ring
How do you remove the outer ring doesnt quiet look like a snap ring on the very ouside on the inside hub assembly right in hub/rotor assembly? on an 1983 Bronco Manual locking hubs. thanks. Also just looks like alomost a full circle with no place to grab it with any kind of tool a C type ring. hard to describe
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Best way I found was to clamp a small allen wrench in a pair of vise grips. It is cut at a bit of an angle at the ends. Lift it up a bit and put a small screwdriver under it then remove it with the allen wrench.
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The way I have done it, and it hasn't failed me yet, is to get 2 very small flat screwdrivers (you may have to sharpen them), or even a sharpend nail will work and use one screwdriver to lift the ring then as its lifted stick the other screwdriver under it bridging the grove to keep it from falling back in the grove. Remove the first screwdriver and use it to "hook" the ring and pull it out. Work your way around getting it out, but always keep the one screwdriver thats under the ring under it. That way teh ring can not fall back in teh groove.
If you have never taken one out before it can be difficult and frustrating, but after you do it a few times ther eis nothing to it. I don't need more than a few seconds to get any one of them out
If you have never taken one out before it can be difficult and frustrating, but after you do it a few times ther eis nothing to it. I don't need more than a few seconds to get any one of them out
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Buy a aet of cheap picks. use the 90 degree pick to slip underneath the end of the ring (there is about a 1/2" space between the ends), and once it lifts up, stick the straight pick between the ring and the hub. Then run the 90 deg pick around the hub while lightly pulling outward to sort of "unzip the ring. A variation of what DaveB said above, but the picks work very nicely, they're cheap, and good to have around for other uses.
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Those things are the biggest PITA's... I use a small flathead and get it barely sticking out and then quickly grab it with some needle-nose pliers. wroks, but sometimes it tries to rotate on you and you want to blow the world up. Or just switch to drive flanges.
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I got a set of hooked pics from walmart that work good. They kinda look like what a dentist uses and they're made by stanley. It helps get up under the ring and get it started.
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I tried several methods (fine screwdriver, allen wrenchs, etc.) and only the hooked tooth picks worked because of space limitations. I may have spent a grand total of 8 hours (!!!) messing with those suckers over a period of a couple of weeks. 
Since I checked my auto hubs before ordering a set of manual, I had to put them back, so for easier removal, I grinded down the edges from:
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to:
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so it was fairly quick when I eventually replaced the auto hubs.
Since I checked my auto hubs before ordering a set of manual, I had to put them back, so for easier removal, I grinded down the edges from:------------|
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to:
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so it was fairly quick when I eventually replaced the auto hubs.
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Originally Posted by aurgathor
I checked my auto hubs before ordering a set of manual, I had to put them back, so for easier removal, I grinded down the edges from:
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to:
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so it was fairly quick when I eventually replaced the auto hubs.
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to:
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so it was fairly quick when I eventually replaced the auto hubs.
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