Wheel bearing won't budge: how do you hold the hub and opposing nut on hub tamer?

[idosubaru]

Front hub is out but the bearing won't budge with hub tamer - snap ring is removed and I'm pressing outside to in.

Bolt won't turn with a 970 ft-lb 3/4" air gun or a 4 foot pipe, first pipe i've been using for years bent in half - I'm finding it hard to keep the hub steady with all that force.

 

I don't recall what i've done before but I don't remember this much difficulty.

How do you hold the knuckle with all that force from pipe?

 

Can I cut the outer race of the bearing out of the knuckle? The bearing is in there so tight and held in at each side by a snap ring and the axle that even if i nicked the inside of the knuckle it won't matter.

Edited January 5, 2014 by grossgary

[idosubaru]

Got it - this was on an XT6 and the bearings press in from the opposite side of EJ's.  I asked here because the hubs are nearly identical to EJ's - same bearing and ball joints - but the bearing presses the opposite way.

 

The XT6 FSM doesn't show/tell clearly which way it presses in, I figured it out once I cleaned all the grease/debris out and looked.

Edited January 5, 2014 by grossgary