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Old 04-26-2012, 04:19 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Neo187H View Post
What wheel is it? Front or rear? If they have the tools available to them and it's a front you can actually fit a carbide bit through an opening in the heat shield and access the back of the hub. From there you can grind the back of it off and slide it out through the front or pop it out with a hammer and punch. It's slow and tedious but it beats the alternative of damaging a very expensive wheel.

Something like this:

Thanks! It was the rear and I'm not sure how they got it off I couldn't do it myself because I don't have many tools.
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