do any of you lovely lot live in Bristol and happen to have a hydraulic press? I need to change the wheel bearings in my uprights and my usual approach of "twat it with a hammer" is not working
If nobody on here has one do you have a garage you use regularly for repairs, MOTs, etc?
If so they'll likely have a press a do it for you.
Not a bad shout.
Was hoping to press them out and then strip/paint before inserting new but if push comes to shove il paint them and then get the bearings done by the
garage.
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Originally posted by tegwin
Not a bad shout.
Was hoping to press them out and then strip/paint before inserting new but if push comes to shove il paint them and then get the bearings done by the garage.
I pulled out and pushed back in the bearings in my uprights using one of those big screw tools a bit like this link worked a treat. I'm up in Yate if you want to give it a go
If it is a case of getting the outer races out of the uprights a very useful dodge is to strip out until just the races are left then run a bead around the inside of the bearing using a high setting which has the affect of shrinking the outside diameter . They will often drop out without any hammering