I am doing someones ball joints & u-joints , got the passenger side done , but the drivers side is a issue , using a wheel puller , hitting on the flange bolts on the back side , with an impact socket on the bolt , for reach & not to beat up the bolt head , large hammer / impact hammer / the PS trick and not getting the flange to get even a little lose .
Thanks John

 

Got it done , 2004 , the rotor & hub were rusted on the inside so the parts would not come apart , without taking the hub out in pieces , then had to take a ball peen hammer & chisel to take the flaking rust off to get back together , this was a clean truck no rust anywhere to indicate this was going to be a problem .

 

Huh? Never heard of them rusting in there that tight! Sorry. But really, I have had good luck with the power steering trick. Done a lot of them now. Last one I had to give a real good yank on the wheel to get it to pop, but other than that no really big troubles.

 

I passed along the power steering trick to my local Dodge mechanic. He loves it. Can have a bearing out and done in 45 minutes now. They did find out a couple times that the power steering unit was weak and when they fixed that the bearing came right out. He said something about a bad "sector" in the pump. I'm not sure what that means but that is another possibilty why some people can't press them out as easily as other.

 

heat...makes life easy...watch the rubber lines

 

The last thing to do is heat , problems with cooking lubes in parts , damage seals & gaskets , excelirate rust - 1st thing to rust is anything that had a torch put to it .
The next time I have this problem with any stuck part is to use a C0 2 extinguisher to freeze / shrink .