How do I swap hub sleeves?

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#21

Good ol’ hammer is not enough?

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#22

No, I beat the shit out of it with a rubber mallet and the only thing that happend was that my mallet smelled like burn rubber and lost a couple pieces…

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#23

Don’t have a hairdryer :poop:

#24

I beat the shit out of it with rubber mallet today, no luck.
The only thing that happend was that my rubber mallet smells like burned rubber and lost a couple pieces…

#25

Sleeve looks fine on the pic, why change it?

Ride until you grind

#26

Because I have 2 other pairs and since I won’t use it at all pretty much from now on I wanted to clean it up and such, potentially sell it.

#27

I seriously don’t get it…
40€ for a bearing puller it is, i guess…
I’d try what venom suggested first (board, hole, sleeve, smack), but seriously doubt you’ll have any success when malleting the shit out of the rim didn’t even show a little effect.

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#28

What happens if you basically step on the motor and pull on the board?

Or rather wrap your feet (with shoes) around the motor and start pulling on the deck

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#29

dude if it was that simple then it would have been solved a long time ago.
It doesn’t move even barely ^^

I can deadlift almost 200kg but I can’t even make it move :joy:

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#30

How long to leave the hairspray on before trying to rip it off like a mad lad?

#31

The hairspray trick tbh I’ve only done on moto grips, slippery while wet for like 30s then gets tacky. It’s more for putting on a new grip then taking one off so I guess I’m talking about putting on a new sleeve and not spraying it under the old one, although that may help YMMV

#32

I give up, I’m all out of ideas… :tired_face:

#33

Cut thane, dremel aluminum sleeve, pry away from motor with pliers.

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#34

If it works, you’ll whack your nutz hard with the other hub. Perhaps a “cup” is cheaper than a gear puller, IDK

Try it and let us know how it goes :joy:

#35

It didn’t even move.

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#36

I don’t have a dremel :cry:

#37

Congratulations, you’re fucked…///
Seriously, i got no other idea than to dremel the sucker off.

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#38

Just gonna give up on swapping them I guess…

Maybe I should just ride it without screws and hope it falls off? :joy:

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#39

Do you have a hacksaw?

#40

I want you to reach slowly and carefully into your pocket… and pull out some money and buy a new drivetrain

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