[Chris H]

I pulled the whole unit from my Tudor and put it in a vise. I bought one of the pullers from Macs, I think. It did not take long before it started to bend. I had to reinforce it by welding angle iron on it. (It ain't pretty.) I spent about two weeks of adding Kroil to the taper joint, tightening the puller, and smacking the puller bolt with a hammer. Each day, after work, I would go out and tighten the puller, give a few hammer blows, and add some Kroil. One day it just popped off! Thankfully, because I was running out of ideas. I wish I had thought of the method of drilling and tapping the hub, or the rope method.

I don't know if it was the right thing to do, but on reassembly, I applied a little anti-seize on the taper. That's been about 5 years ago, and haven't had any problems.