Topic: Quick wheel bearing question...

[DaytonGuy]

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

[bollingball]

No as long as you don't tap on the inner race.

[mystic_1]

.... and it's nearly impossible to remove them without tapping on the inner races.


mystic_1

[bollingball]

+1 get a new one

[DaytonGuy]

That's what I figured, but I thought I would ask.  At least there not too expensive......

[Kong]

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.

[Duke McDukiedook]

But do you want to go to that trouble again to find out you did?

[haggeo]

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.

[bollingball]

That is a good looking tool. What brand name is it? How much? where to buy?


                                                 Thanks Ken

[haggeo]

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.

[OldSchool_IsCool]

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.

[camelman]

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.

Camelman

[Duke McDukiedook]

How are you gonna hang them without the grease running out?

[camelman]

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.

Camelman

[DaytonGuy]

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.