help pulling bearings!!!
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Wheel bearings:
Insert a 1" steel pipe through the wheel, (old hydraulic jack handle) and TIG weld the pipe to the inner race of the bearing. Smack that bearing out using the welded-on pipe.
Remove inner spacer.
Stick a slightly bigger pipe into the wheel the other way onto the remaining bearing.
Smack that one out the other direction.
Do both wheels.
SAVE ONE BEARING
Grind outside of old bearing slightly with a bench grinder, and grind inner race of old bearing flush with outer race.
Use this bearing as an install tool for your new bearings.
When wheels are ready for new bearings:
1) Freeze new bearings in your refrigerator for 1/2 day.
2) Heat the wheel bearing bore with your wife's hair dryer, make them hot.
3) Tap new bearing into place evenly using your old ground-down bearing as a tapping tool.
4) Bearing almost fall in.
Insert a 1" steel pipe through the wheel, (old hydraulic jack handle) and TIG weld the pipe to the inner race of the bearing. Smack that bearing out using the welded-on pipe.
Remove inner spacer.
Stick a slightly bigger pipe into the wheel the other way onto the remaining bearing.
Smack that one out the other direction.
Do both wheels.
SAVE ONE BEARING
Grind outside of old bearing slightly with a bench grinder, and grind inner race of old bearing flush with outer race.
Use this bearing as an install tool for your new bearings.
When wheels are ready for new bearings:
1) Freeze new bearings in your refrigerator for 1/2 day.
2) Heat the wheel bearing bore with your wife's hair dryer, make them hot.
3) Tap new bearing into place evenly using your old ground-down bearing as a tapping tool.
4) Bearing almost fall in.
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I figured the same but it doesn't hurt to clarify.
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