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Mark Choate
Recently I discovered, like so many of you, that the wheel bearings in the rear wheel flange side were bad. I order a kit with all the bearings, dust seal and O-rings, from http://www.cbrbearing.com/. Even though I only found the the flange side bearings to be bad, I thought I would change them all while I was at it. Before attempting any new projects on my STeed I always check our forums for whatever info might be available. I found lots of threads on the wheel bearings but nothing really about the NON-FLANGE side of the wheel, hence this post. So with my replacement kit in hand, I attempted to R&R the bearings. I have done lots of bearing jobs in the past, pressing things in and out, on and off, beating and smacking away. The flange side went very smooth, the non-flange side.... not so much.
In my ignorance, it almost cost me a wheel. If I had paid more attention to the drawing with the cut-a-way view of the wheel, on page 16-10 of the service manual, I could have avoided any issues.
The purpose of this thread and its accompanying pictures is to possibly help anyone like me that missed it the first time in the manual. A picture is truly worth a thousand words. The way and only way those bearing come out is in your face. By that I mean, as you are facing the bearing, looking straight at it, that bearing has to come out straight at you. Try taking a a long punch and slide it throught the inner race and spacer to the bearing on the bottom, hopefully the spacer that is in between these two bearings has enough wiggle to it that you can catch and edge of the inner race of the far side bearing and drive it out. Once one of the bearings is out it becomes easy to get the other out.
DO NOT TRY TO DRIVE/PRESS BOTH BEARINGS OUT THE SAME DIRECTION.
There are shoulders in the wheel that prevent this as seen in the drawing on pg 16-10. However if you are attempting this with a hydraulic press, it is powerful enough to push both the bearings out the same direction but then you have destroyed the wheel. Don't ask me how I know this
these pics are with the bearings removed so you can see the shoulder inside of the wheel that the bearings rest on.
next time I think I will just replace the flange side bearings if that's all that is bad. Like my wise buddy "Papa Glenn" says, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
don't ya just hate really long post?
Mark aa0yy
In my ignorance, it almost cost me a wheel. If I had paid more attention to the drawing with the cut-a-way view of the wheel, on page 16-10 of the service manual, I could have avoided any issues.
The purpose of this thread and its accompanying pictures is to possibly help anyone like me that missed it the first time in the manual. A picture is truly worth a thousand words. The way and only way those bearing come out is in your face. By that I mean, as you are facing the bearing, looking straight at it, that bearing has to come out straight at you. Try taking a a long punch and slide it throught the inner race and spacer to the bearing on the bottom, hopefully the spacer that is in between these two bearings has enough wiggle to it that you can catch and edge of the inner race of the far side bearing and drive it out. Once one of the bearings is out it becomes easy to get the other out.
DO NOT TRY TO DRIVE/PRESS BOTH BEARINGS OUT THE SAME DIRECTION.
There are shoulders in the wheel that prevent this as seen in the drawing on pg 16-10. However if you are attempting this with a hydraulic press, it is powerful enough to push both the bearings out the same direction but then you have destroyed the wheel. Don't ask me how I know this
these pics are with the bearings removed so you can see the shoulder inside of the wheel that the bearings rest on.
next time I think I will just replace the flange side bearings if that's all that is bad. Like my wise buddy "Papa Glenn" says, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
don't ya just hate really long post?
Mark aa0yy
