Thursday, October 14, 2010

Rear Wheel Bearings

WARNING! 
DO NOT SANDBLAST & POWDER COAT YOUR WHEEL WITH THE BEARINGS  INSTALLED

Now that I got that warning out of the way. let me show you some pictures of what happens when you don't listen to my warning. 

I spent a good couple hours trying to bang out these bearings and  I had to finally call in a friend (Thanks Bill) to help me hit it a bit harder. 







This is the bearing still stuck in the wheel. 
If you look closely you can see my stuck punch    






This is what my bearing looked like after I got it out











Here are the two little bastards 
that gave me so much crap







A picture of Bill trying to figure out why they put  plastic/rubber  pieces  on the end of the  bearing spacer. 



Here is the piece i was referring to,  I kinda chipped the right side of  the spacer. I'm not sure if the other side had the rubber plastic caps. I'm going to figure that out today. 










The wheel is ready to be cleaned 
and prepped for the new bearings.





Oh yea, this is a picture of my punch that was stuck in the bearing. I now know why I couldn't pull out the punch. I'm pretty sure it was straight when I put it in there. 

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