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I presume the bearing is grease filled. Most are. And, given the axle is a mighty hunk of steel, it's probably a pretty good heat sink. So I probably will end up trying to heat the retainer first and see if I can persuade it to shfit at all, while keeping an eye on how hot things get near the...

Ahem... I've not completely ruled it out though. Just a bit wary.

Back again to chew over this; Having looked at those rear axle tools on Amazon and a few vids of people using them [why are they only available from Amazon US? I can't find them anywhere else] I don't think they're going to be any good to me—even if I ordered one, endured the wait til it got...

Just a couple of quick additional thoughts on this: 1: I was pretty pissed off with all of this yesterday, as I'm going to visit a mate in Wales at the end of the month and i'd been hoping to get the Surf sorted by then and use that as its first road trip. I doubt that'll happen now, what with...

Indeed. Although, in this case, it feels like I'm being given detention for someone else's messing about

Well, it seems like similar tools for doing this job are available in the UK too. And on Amazon no less. So, maybe I can solve this problem by throwing even more money at it. https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=toyota+hilux+Rear+Axle+Bearing+%26Tone+Ring+tool Actually, I'm thinking that, if I did buy...

Well, unfortunately it seems like my theory is correct: I marked up the inner retaining ring, refitted the axle stub and gave it a good spin. When I took it back out, none of the marker lines were touched at all [Sorry. They don't show up very well in the photo]: Hmmm... time for a few...