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Offline DaytonGuy

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Quick wheel bearing question...
« on: November 20, 2010, 06:53:28 AM »
Ok....so I removed the old ones, painted my hubs, and installed new bearings.  Now I've decided i want to powder coat the hubs.  If I remove the new bearings can I reinstall them when finished.  Does tapping them out damage them in any way?

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Re: Quick wheel bearing question...
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2010, 06:55:22 AM »
No as long as you don't tap on the inner race.

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Re: Quick wheel bearing question...
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2010, 06:56:37 AM »
.... and it's nearly impossible to remove them without tapping on the inner races.


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Re: Quick wheel bearing question...
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2010, 07:09:35 AM »
+1 get a new one ;)

Offline DaytonGuy

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Re: Quick wheel bearing question...
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2010, 08:34:20 AM »
That's what I figured, but I thought I would ask.  At least there not too expensive...... ::)

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Re: Quick wheel bearing question...
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2010, 12:08:02 PM »
Don't be in such a hurry to think you'll destroy them taking them out.  Just get out your brass drift and start tapping around the edges and keep moving.  You may, in fact I'd go so far as to say you most likely will, find that you've done no damage to them at all.  They shouldn't have been very hard to get in, they shouldn't be very hard to get out.
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Re: Quick wheel bearing question...
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2010, 12:19:31 PM »
But do you want to go to that trouble again to find out you did?
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Offline haggeo

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Re: Quick wheel bearing question...
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2010, 10:58:45 AM »
Ok....so I removed the old ones, painted my hubs, and installed new bearings.  Now I've decided i want to powder coat the hubs.  If I remove the new bearings can I reinstall them when finished.  Does tapping them out damage them in any way?

Thanks

a bearing remover will get them out. i have not damaged any races or bearings with this yet. a drift works too but you are always one slip away from a damaged race, especially if it's your first time.

« Last Edit: November 21, 2010, 11:00:38 AM by haggeo »

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Re: Quick wheel bearing question...
« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2010, 11:44:40 AM »
That is a good looking tool. What brand name is it? How much? where to buy?


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Re: Quick wheel bearing question...
« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2010, 04:43:54 PM »
http://pitposse.com/whbereset.html

i think it was about $2 cheaper when i bought it in 2008 but it's been very much a frustration saver for me more than once since then.

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Re: Quick wheel bearing question...
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2010, 05:40:24 PM »
Or build the tool described in this article (6"x1/2" bolt with slot cut in threaded end):

http://www.goldwingdocs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=69

I think it will destroy your bearing's inner race though.  But new bearings would be cheaper than the Pit Posse tool.
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Re: Quick wheel bearing question...
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2010, 06:36:47 PM »
Whoa!!!  why do you think you need to remove them?  I just powdercoated some hubs with the bearings in place, and they came out just fine.  Powdercoating temps aren't high enough to damage the bearings.  Just make sure you won't dribble grease everywhere when the bearings heat up, and make sure you regrease them when done.

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Re: Quick wheel bearing question...
« Reply #12 on: November 22, 2010, 04:47:31 AM »
How are you gonna hang them without the grease running out?
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Re: Quick wheel bearing question...
« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2010, 07:16:48 AM »
I laid them flat on a table and slid them into a glass furnace.  I can't remember what we placed underneath them to catch oil dribbles, but what little came out didn't touch the parts.  I think we got a little on some of the oven bricks, but a quick run to 800F burned off any residual oil.

Actually, if you are going to a powdercoating shop, then you'll probably need to remove them.

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Re: Quick wheel bearing question...
« Reply #14 on: November 22, 2010, 02:57:59 PM »
Thanks.  It's not the powder I'm worried about.  It's the chemical dip/strip process I don't want to put the bearings through.