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glennyrosa
Guest
Strangley enough, I have just experienced (within the last hour) the
same issue another subcriber just had. I popped off my new Gordon
bearing cover and got a lap full of water. I still had some of the
original rubber caps, but I believe Hugh has a better seal with his
steel cap. My feeling is that the water came in thru the seal.
I've had my rear bearing covers off a number of times and have never
seen water. These rear bearing covers don't have near the tight fit
as the front ones do. When I saw the problem I immediately picked
up my cell phone and gave Sheli a call before she went home. I
often call after hours and weekends and find someone at Gordon's.
Ordered new bearings and seals for both sides. I'll be swimming
again this weekend. Bottom line. Grease your front bearings often
and take the cap off when you do to purge the grease thru the outter
bearing and not the seal.
As far as getting the inner bearing off the spindle: I shattered
the bearing cage similar to everyone else. Popped the seal out
(used the same seal puller I had modified to remove the tranny seals-
-thank you to whoever it was that suggested that idea to me) and
got a small 2 prong gear puller to pull the rest of the bearing off
the spindle. Quick and easy. There's plenty of bearing 'meat' for
the puller to grab onto. I got the puller years ago from MAC Tools
to work on aircraft magnetos. Had to drill some extra holes in the
pawls to extend the grab on the puller. Auto Zone rents tools for
free. I have used their wheel hub puller twice to get my rear hubs
off. It fits perfect. I'm sure they'd have a gear puller that will
work on the front bearing.
The outter race in the front wheel hub is another issue. What a
dumb thing to do. I don't have access to a wire feed welder to add
a lip to hammer on. I plan to take it to a local machine shop to
remove the race and perhaps file 2 notches abeam each other in the
hub to where a small drift could knock the race out in the future.
I'd like to thank all the people who dole out such valuable info on
this newsgroup and to Hugh Gordon and his staff for excessively
running my cell phone minutes over limit several times over the
years. I'd be lost without you guys.
glenn in oregon
same issue another subcriber just had. I popped off my new Gordon
bearing cover and got a lap full of water. I still had some of the
original rubber caps, but I believe Hugh has a better seal with his
steel cap. My feeling is that the water came in thru the seal.
I've had my rear bearing covers off a number of times and have never
seen water. These rear bearing covers don't have near the tight fit
as the front ones do. When I saw the problem I immediately picked
up my cell phone and gave Sheli a call before she went home. I
often call after hours and weekends and find someone at Gordon's.
Ordered new bearings and seals for both sides. I'll be swimming
again this weekend. Bottom line. Grease your front bearings often
and take the cap off when you do to purge the grease thru the outter
bearing and not the seal.
As far as getting the inner bearing off the spindle: I shattered
the bearing cage similar to everyone else. Popped the seal out
(used the same seal puller I had modified to remove the tranny seals-
-thank you to whoever it was that suggested that idea to me) and
got a small 2 prong gear puller to pull the rest of the bearing off
the spindle. Quick and easy. There's plenty of bearing 'meat' for
the puller to grab onto. I got the puller years ago from MAC Tools
to work on aircraft magnetos. Had to drill some extra holes in the
pawls to extend the grab on the puller. Auto Zone rents tools for
free. I have used their wheel hub puller twice to get my rear hubs
off. It fits perfect. I'm sure they'd have a gear puller that will
work on the front bearing.
The outter race in the front wheel hub is another issue. What a
dumb thing to do. I don't have access to a wire feed welder to add
a lip to hammer on. I plan to take it to a local machine shop to
remove the race and perhaps file 2 notches abeam each other in the
hub to where a small drift could knock the race out in the future.
I'd like to thank all the people who dole out such valuable info on
this newsgroup and to Hugh Gordon and his staff for excessively
running my cell phone minutes over limit several times over the
years. I'd be lost without you guys.
glenn in oregon