So...this is how I got a bearing out.

lastcowboy32 · Jul 15, 2017

I didn't have a socket big enough to fit the outer race, and there wasn't enough of the race showing to get a good shot at it the edges with a punch.

I did have a socket that was close, and I have a tapered cold chisel. I set the socket on the bearing. Set the chisel next to it and tapped it a couple of times to wedge the socket against the far wall of the bearing housing, so that it had a good bite on the bearing's outer race.

Then I held the chisel in place with one hand; while I hit the socket with a four pound hammer with the the other hand. I had to rotate the housing a few times and reset the socket and chisel to alternate the sides of the bearing race that I was hitting and work the bearing out evenly. But I got it.

lastcowboy32 · Jul 15, 2017

And this is how I got it back in. I still don't have the proper socket to drive it back in. And , if I just use the outer race from the old bearing, it could get stuck.

So...I took a kerf out of the old outer bearing race with a metal cutting chop saw.

It drove the new bearing back in all of the way into the bore. To get it out, I squeezed it with some slip jaw pliers and it slipped right out.

Determined · Jul 16, 2017

I never thought of cutting a slice out of the cup like you did, usually if I have the same problem I just put it on the bench grinder and make it a hair smaller so it will not stick in the housing.

lastcowboy32 · Jul 16, 2017

(quoted from post at 06:45:18 07/16/17) I never thought of cutting a slice out of the cup like you did, usually if I have the same problem I just put it on the bench grinder and make it a hair smaller so it will not stick in the housing.

Thought about that. My grinder is a hand held angle grinder. The only thing I have on the bench is a Tormek sharpening system. That would take a loooooong time to reduce the size.

The chop saw was right there, and it only took about ten seconds, if that, of cutting to take a kerf out of it.

I guess it all depends on what you have available

PJH · Jul 16, 2017

Good job.

If you have a welder, you can run a bead on the inside of the race, then flip it face down and when it cools, it will fall out. There's something very satisfying about a race falling out all by itself.

lastcowboy32 · Jul 16, 2017

(quoted from post at 09:30:30 07/16/17) Good job.

If you have a welder, you can run a bead on the inside of the race, then flip it face down and when it cools, it will fall out. There's something very satisfying about a race falling out all by itself.

I've watched my brother do that with his stick welder. My little wire feed (I think) doesn't have the ooomf to do it.

So...this is how I got a bearing out.

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