Engine Bearings Version 2.0

If you recall I attempted to install my crank bearings a couple weeks ago with little success. Every time I started cranking the bearing down it would start to get a little crooked and get stuck. Now with a second pair of hands and a handy Emeralds Peanuts container they went on with no problem.

A preview of our rig

Bill approving our setup after 

success of  the first bearing.

Image of  both bearings sitting nicely on the crank

Snap ring install

Both bearings and seals and clutch bushing

 installed. that went really well. 

Next I'm going to clean the clutch bell and probably replace the springs and continue the engine build

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. 

Reassembling Front Wheel

Well I got the front wheel reassembled, I think i need to do some fine tuning on the bearing pressure.

I had to go to Auto Zone and buy a cheap wrench to grind down to make my
own tool to tighten the set nut on the wheel.  This is a much cheaper alternative to
buying a special wrench.

Cleaned my front wheel bearings and races

Well I finally got back to the front wheel. I cleaned out the bearing races with a q-tip and some carburetor and below is a picture of my bearings soaking is some carburetor cleaner in my blaster cap (one more use for blaster http://www.pbblaster.com/).  

Bearings Soaking In Carburetor Cleaner

Before

After

Before

After

Before

After

Removing Front Wheel Bearings

Last night I removed the brake assembly and the bearings, it was a bit tough. I'm going to clean them today and go pick up some new grease to pack them with. Thanx to my wife i didn't loose any bearings.

It looks like i might need a special tool to get the rear wheel bearings out. I'll do some research today and hopefully get those out tonight.

Failed attempt at installing new bearings

Well i'm using the freeze and heat method.
Here is my crank getting nice and cold

Here are my bearings cooking.
I don't think I got them hot enough
I had them in the oven for 10 mins at 200 including preheating. so really they were only in there for around 8 mins at 200 degrees

This is as far as i got :(
not really a success

So i went out and bought a bearing puller and a clutch puller while i was out.
I found out from the moped army that there is a way to press the bearings on with the puller so that is what i'm going to try next time. I think i'm going to take a break from these bearings and try my hand at the wheel bearings :).

Parts are back from Sand & Powder

I picked up my parts up today, everything looks great.

I went with the 100% Gloss,I hope i don't regret it. So far I like it. 

Carb Is In the house

Woot! I got my Carburetor and Air Filter in today. Now i just have to wait for the engine casing to come back from sandblasting  

OH yea look what i found today.

This Looks BA (Bad Ass)

I don't have the money for it right now, but I had to share. 

New Parts Ordered, w00t!

Well Google finally decided to cut me a check for my Adsense account, which means more goodies for the Mag.

So Thanx to TreatLand.tv I ordered a

Dellorto PHBG 19mm black race carburetor

32mm black foam air filter

E50 Clutch Bushing

I also scheduled the power coating of my frame and wheels. Hopefully those parts will be finished mid next week.

Parts Ready For Sand Blasting

I"m sending my frame, forks, engine casing and wheels off to be sandblasted. I'm hoping my wheels still look safe after all the rust is removed :). I still haven't decided if i'm going to paint the frame and forks or have someone else do them.

New Used Shocks Have Arrived.

Got my new shocks in, the yellow will be painted black or Puch green I haven't decided.

New CDI is in the house

I bought a CDI Adventure Pack from http://www.treatland.tv

Now the only thing left is the carburetor and the engine will be complete :)

Painting My Techno Boss Pipe

So Decided to paint my chrome pipe. I think it turned out pretty good but when I took off the tape a little bit of the paint came off with it. I'm going to try again with a smaller strip of tape. Oh yea, I used some sort of high temp grill paint.

Prepping the frame for sandblasting

I did some cutting and grinding on the frame, I want to cut off all the extra tabs and brackets that I won't be using. I still have some grinding left, but i was happy with the work completed.

Rear Wheel

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

Parts Ordered

Thanx to

Description	Quantity	Price
Puch E50 Green Seal Kit	1	$9.99
Puch Crankshaft Bearing Set	1	$16.99
Puch E50 Gasket Kit	1	$10.99

Puch Race Alu Stuffed Crank	1	$106.00
Puch Cheapo 70cc Kit	1	$77.00

I also picked up some new engine bolts from Fastenal