What is the best way to remove front wheel bearing inner and outer races?

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Vaughn on Friday, July 25, 2014 - 03:58 pm:

What is the best way to remove front wheel bearing inner and outer races?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Greg Whaley, Georgetown Ontario Canada on Friday, July 25, 2014 - 04:15 pm:

Mike - run a bead of weld around the race surface and they usually will fall right out


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Greg Whaley, Georgetown Ontario Canada on Friday, July 25, 2014 - 04:18 pm:

or:

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/179374/195114.html?1299346512


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Donnie Brown on Friday, July 25, 2014 - 05:49 pm:

If you feel on the inside of the hub, just behind the race, you will find 2 notches in the hub.(buried under all the grease) Support the hub (or entire wheel and hub)with blocks of wood, and with the race you want removed on the bottom. Take a big drift, a large pieces of key stock, a large broken flat screwdriver, ect. Insert the drift thru the hub against the race at the notch. Take a large hammer and drive it out. You will need to move from notch to notch as the race comes out. Just takes a few blows and its out. :-):-):-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ted Dumas on Friday, July 25, 2014 - 05:55 pm:

Early hubs have no or almost no notch. You can grind and bend a bar to catch the edge of the race and knock it out a little bit at a time.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bud Holzschuh - Panama City, FL on Friday, July 25, 2014 - 05:56 pm:

Mike

Just did this yesterday. The "cups" that are a part of the wheel hub and hold the races should have two rounded slots cut into them. These are there to access the back edge of the races with a drift and punch them out with a hammer.

Put the side with the race you want to drive out facing down and using a 1/4" drift about 6" long, fit it into those slots and alternately bang on each side of the race using about a 2 lb ball peen hammer. I used vice grips to hold the drift so I didn't whack my fingers.

Piece of cake ;o)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bud Holzschuh - Panama City, FL on Friday, July 25, 2014 - 05:57 pm:

Oops - sorry Donnie - we were posting at the same time!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By keith g barrier on Friday, July 25, 2014 - 06:52 pm:

Be very careful when knocking the outer race out as the hub is thin and easily deformed, as Greg says a bead of weld is the best bet if you are not going to reuse the race. KGB


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Vaughn on Friday, July 25, 2014 - 07:13 pm:

I was able to beat them out yesterday, I was just wondering if there was an easier way. I had a heck of a time with one of the inner races. Thanks for your replies. Next time I will try a weld on a difficult race.


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