U Joint Yoke Removal for Carrier Bearing Replace-Bigger Hammer or what?

All done, buttoned up, greased, test driven, and working on the beer and pizza. So much smoother feeling when driving.

Adding the grease fitting to the slip yoke was stupid simple. Not planning on pumping much grease in there, but I know if it starts to stick again I have an easy fix. Since I paid attention-this time-I actually have all 4 grease fittings on the driveshaft on the same side.

Only tool I had to buy was a 6" puller from Amazon for $18 and a $1 1/4x28 tap for the grease fitting. The rest was pretty much normal hand tools.

 

I know this is a really old post but I’m trying to find the replacement and Oreillys can’t tell me which one I need so I’m fixing to take it in in person but does anyone have any part numbers besides spicer in case it doesn’t work out tomorrow at the parts store as far as I know it’s called an end yoke

 

Bringing this thread back from the grave because was getting all set to buy a puller like this. But looking closer I'm curious if this yoke puller actually works on a 2nd gen Tacoma driveshaft to pull off the yoke holding the carrier bearing.

It says it's for an Eaton Fuller transmission yoke. These are found on medium duty trucks and use a significantly larger u-joint. The smallest Fuller I think uses 1610 series u-joints, which have bearing caps that are 1.875" in diameter and they go bigger to caps more than 2" across.

The 1310 series u-joint bearing caps on a Tacoma are 1.062" in diameter. So does the linked one work and fit in the bearing cups for sure?

 

That thing is over $100. For that price, get a 12 or 20 ton press which you can use for many other things. The OP went with a cheap puller, see post #21. I used my 20-ton press and a bearing splitter.

 

That wasn't my question. I used a bearing splitter and H-beam OTC puller before on this yoke, so I figured out how to do that.

But I'm looking to pull a yoke where using a bearing splitter won't fit easily behind it due to a seal and this is the style puller that probably works best to do it. So I'm trying to figure out the diameter of the rods and see if it could serve multiple uses.

Anyway, if someone had no tools and was looking at it or cheaper Amazon knockoff as an alternative to splitters, press or otherwise I'd be mighty ticked to find it doesn't work. I don't have a press personally since I don't have space so I'm still one of those troglodytes using hand tools.

 

Sorry for the confusion...It was meant as an example of the style of puller to use, not necessarily the correct size for the 2nd gen. I have several pullers of this style in different sizes.