axles with tapered retainers that are hard to remove....

[Rawze]

I had someone with a Volvo truck here the other day and he wanted to re-torque all his wheel bearings. - It looks like no one has ever bothered to do it, so I decided to help him out.

   

His truck had those very annoying tapered retainer rings that everyone hates, and his were particularly rusty and stubborn because they were rusted up and stuck badly.

We tried a few different methods to get them to pop loose including hammering the center of the axle with a sledge hammer. -- His were stuck really badly, more-so than I have ever seen anyone else that had come here ... so I purchased a tool for them. Here is the tool...

https://amzn.to/3gMcZ4C
or -- https://www.ebay.com/p/26017018265

A couple hits and re-tightening the tool a couple times and they all came right out. It worked like a charm.