Painted sprockets and brake assembly

I painted my rear wheel sprocket, brake assembly and my engine gear sprocket. 

I'm going to reassemble the rear wheel tomorrow after the paint has had time to completely dry

I'm sure it's not going to last long but it's worth a shot.

Installed Wheel Bearings

These went in pretty easily a lot faster then getting the old ones out. I laid the bearings flush and gave it a whack with a rubber malled.  

Bearing 1

Bearing 2
Side note: I noticed I didn't have the bearing in far enough after
I took this picture. Make sure your bearing is pressed in far enough.


Don't forget the spacer between the bearings 

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. 

Rear Wheel

I decided to take the wheels off the frame today. I'm hoping i can get these cleaned up nicely.