(b) Emergency employees. An agency may designate emergency employees who are critical to agency operations and for whom weather and safety leave may not be applicable. To the extent practicable, an agency should inform employees of their designation as emergency employees well in advance in anticipation of the possible occurrence of the conditions set forth in § 630.1603. If the agency wishes to provide for the possibility that an emergency employee could work from an approved telework site in lieu of traveling to the regular worksite in appropriate circumstances, an agency should encourage the employee to enter into a telework agreement providing for that contingency. An agency may designate different emergency employees for the different circumstances expected to arise from these conditions. Emergency employees must report to work at their regular worksite or another approved location as directed by the agency, unless—

After realizing that the hub bearing units are not serviceable, I began my search for replacements. After days of searching I came up with these numbers as of 1/07.

7.) Now that you’ve released the hub clips you will need to pull off the hub. I found the easiest way was to take a medium size standard screwdriver and twist between the tape on the metal hub and the plastic. If you’re lucky it will move about 1/16th of an inch or so. If it does, rotate the hub and continue with this process in the 5 other slots. I also found it helpful to keep constant pressure on it by pulling away; this kept the hub from sliding back into the original position. Again, as you can see in the picture below.

6a.) If not, take the 6 jig saw blades and gently insert them in the hub hold down tabs. After you’ve inserted them carefully pry up the tabs by pushing down on the blades, I found it helpful to tape over each blade a few times holding it securely in place, as seen in the picture below.

(ii) If an employee is prevented from safely working at the approved telework site due to circumstances, arising from one or more of the conditions in § 630.1603, applicable to the telework site, an agency may, at its discretion, provide leave under this subpart to the employee.

I was surprised to see that the Ford dealer’s price was actually lower than the aftermarket stores. That would have been my top choice if I had not found AutoPartsDirectToYou.com. Of course I’d look into seeing if the Ford unit came with all the parts if you are going to pursue that avenue. I was told by the associates at AutoPartsDirectToYou.com that this unit comes with a mfg. lifetime warranty.

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The reinstallation is pretty straight forward; just reverse the removal process. Remember to put some wheel bearing grease on those o-rings and all mating surfaces; this will help with the install and removal if you ever have to take them out again.

If the guts spilled all over the place when you removed the cap, here is a picture showing the order they go back together.

Tip: I found that every time I went to pull out the snap ring it would fall off the pliers, to solve this problem I would open up the snap ring and rather then pull the snap ring out, I’d push in the drive axel until it was over the shoulder.

5 U.S.C. chapter 63 as follows: Subparts A through E issued under 5 U.S.C. 6133(a) (read with 5 U.S.C. 6129), 6303(e) and (f), 6304(d)(2), 6306(b), 6308(a), and 6311; subpart F issued under 5 U.S.C. 6305(a) and 6311 and E.O. 11228, 30 FR 7739, 3 CFR, 1974 Comp., p. 163; subpart G issued under 5 U.S.C. 6305(c) and 6311; subpart H issued under 5 U.S.C. 6133(a) (read with 5 U.S.C. 6129) and 6326(b); subpart I issued under 5 U.S.C. 6332, 6334(c), 6336(a)(1) and (d), and 6340; subpart J issued under 5 U.S.C. 6340, 6363, 6365(d), 6367(e), and 6373(a); subpart K issued under 5 U.S.C. 6391(g); subpart L issued under 5 U.S.C. 6383(f) and 6387; subpart M issued under sec. 2(d), Pub. L. 114-75, 129 Stat. 641 (5 U.S.C. 6329 note); subpart P issued under 5 U.S.C. 6329c(d); and subpart Q issued under 5 U.S.C. 6387.

I decided that now would be a good time to clean out the PVH. You’ll notice that the system contains just 6 major parts: the hub body, 2 white pieces, a spring, the rubber diaphragm and the cap.

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The new hub/bearing assemblies did not come with new o-rings and mine were in pretty good shape so I decided to reuse them. Note: I’d suggest using new ones to keep the shaky vacuum system in good working order. You can see in the pictures what o rings I’m talking about.

9.) Now that you’ve got the bolts loosened up, tap the bearing assembly around with a hammer; hopefully it’ll loosen up. Remember though its still connected to the drive axel so don’t just pull it out.

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To engage the hubs, the system puts a vacuum on the rubber diaphragm which compresses the white assembly about ¾ of an inch. This releases the spring and puts pressure on the ring gear which connects the hub to the drive axel. It takes an average of 45 seconds to pull enough of a vacuum to engage.

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Another Tip: The day I did this job it was 13 degrees F out and I found that since everything was frozen, heating up the hub with a hairdryer helped loosen things up.

11.) After you’ve removed the snap ring and the hub is loose, you should remove the ABS wire (if your truck has front ABS). Then just pull the hub/bearing assembly out.

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(3) In making a determination under paragraph (a)(2) of this section, an agency must evaluate whether any of the conditions in § 630.1603 could be reasonably anticipated and whether the employee took reasonable steps (within the employee's control) to prepare to perform telework at the approved telework site. For example, if a significant snowstorm is predicted, the employee may need to prepare by taking home any equipment (e.g., laptop computer) and work needed for teleworking. To the extent that an employee is unable to perform work at a telework site because of failure to make necessary preparations for reasonably anticipated conditions, an agency may not provide weather and safety leave, and the employee would need to use other appropriate paid leave, paid time off, or leave without pay.

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10.) You might have to clean out all the grease, but there is a plastic and metal snap ring inside, use the snap ring pliers to remove it.

(i) If, in the agency's judgment, the conditions in § 630.1603 could not reasonably be anticipated, an agency may provide leave under this subpart to the extent an employee was not able to prepare for telework as described in paragraph (a)(3) of this section and is otherwise unable to perform productive work at the telework site.

To disengage the hubs, the system puts less of a vacuum on the diaphragm only pulling it down about ¼ of an inch; this aligns 2 small tabs inside the white assembly and keeps the spring compressed. As a result of the spring being compressed the ring gear disengages from the hub and drive axel, unlocking the hubs.

(1) Except as provided under paragraph (a)(2) of this section, employees who are participating in a telework program and are able to safely travel to and work at an approved telework site may not be granted leave under § 630.1603. Employees who are eligible to telework and participating in a telework program under applicable agency policies are typically able to safely perform work at their approved telework site (e.g., home), since they are not required to work at their regular worksite.

You’ll also need standard hand tools, metric wrenches & sockets, a few hammers, screwdrivers, snap ring pliers & a large c-clamp.

7a.) Once you’ve cleared the clips, you can pull it out the rest of the way, just make sure you are pulling perpendicular to the hub as it will reduce binding and make the removal easier.

By now you’ve probably realized that the replacements of the 1998-2000 Ranger hubs suck. Not only are the parts expensive, but you need “special tools” to replace them, hopefully this article will help make that replacement a little easier.

Remember this is just a rough guide on how I replaced the bearings using bits and pieces of info from my repair manual, on the Internet, and from Ford. I’m not sure if this is the correct repair procedure, but it worked for me.

7b.) If the hub doesn’t move use a pair of needle nose pliers to remove the outer cap of the PVH system. A 1/8″ turn CCW will disengage the pins and allow you to pull out the guts of the hub system. Don’t worry if they all come apart, I’ll show you later how to clean them and put it all back together. Once the guts have been removed you can spray some penetrating oil inside to help loosen things up.

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Tip: Use that penetrating oil generously, it’ll only help loosen things up & the longer it sits on the parts the more effective it will work

(1) The agency determines that travel to or performing work at the worksite is unsafe for emergency employees, in which case the agency may require the employees to work at another location, including a telework site as provided in paragraph (a) of this section, as appropriate; or