124" winter build...
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Road Warrior
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Yes the press makes life easier for sure. I'm not a fan of harbor freight tools by any means but I picked that press up for $120 brand new.. For something I won't use but a couple times a year I think it will work fine. The bandit will use the same bearing I pressed out, I was referring to the inner race on that bearing for pressing it out. The outer race is behind a shoulder on the basket so you can't press it out by that. However you do press the new bearing in by the outer race from the other side.
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Race on the main shaft. Was just curious if bandit does something different?
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Road Warrior
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It's just the harbor freight 12 ton press. Got it for $120 around Christmas forseeing some of this stuff coming. I hate paying people to do things that I can do you know? It didn't come with any plugs but I had a bearing/ seal driver set I got off Amazon for cheap a while back. If none of those work I put socket on the bearing with a thick washer between the socket and press to try to prevent damaging the socket. Gotta make due haha
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Sounds good. I was reading elsewhere a whole back about the race going away, but that might have been from replacing the trans w/ baker setup....must have misread.
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It's just the harbor freight 12 ton press. Got it for $120 around Christmas forseeing some of this stuff coming. I hate paying people to do things that I can do you know? It didn't come with any plugs but I had a bearing/ seal driver set I got off Amazon for cheap a while back. If none of those work I put socket on the bearing with a thick washer between the socket and press to try to prevent damaging the socket. Gotta make due haha
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Sounds like you're talking about the inner primary bearing. Baker makes a sealed bearing that eliminates the pressed on race but they don't make one for the '08-up mainshaft, yet.
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Yup that's it Vdop, thanks. Wanted to do those, "while you are in there you might as well" sort of things. Baker came out with the comp for our bike so im sure they will come out with that piece too.