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Steering head bearing removal
the inner race is stuck in the head tube and there is a metal spacer keeping me from getting under the lip of the race. Any ideas on how to remove?
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Contact Jellis, or use a sawsall and insert the blade all the way through the middle and make a cut as much as needed to cut the outer race of the
bearing.
A torch and a cold chisel if nothing else.
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Put a punch in there and drive the spacer tube over some. Then drive out the bearing from the opposite side. I wouldn't reuse them once removed.
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It's a hardcore, it won't punch out. I used a torch to melt it out and then cut a groove in the center to allow a sharp punch to drive out the
opposite side when the second set needs to be replaced.
I also added a zert fitting to grease the new bearings, they are still good.
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I'd like to see a picture of this setup. Sounds like some sort of bearing puller is needed?
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bigkid
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The part was custom made by the previous dealer. That part is no longer produced. The problem is the center sleeve is a greater thickness down the
outside race of the bearings. So the inside raise and bearings, rollers, can be removed but not the outside race. So a bearing puller will not work.
The only solution is to modify the inside sleeve.
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If the inner race and its ball bearings are already removed it's a very simple fix.
Take a welder and run a bead around the face inside of the bearing where the balls/rollers run and when it's cool it will simply fall out of it's
housing.
The weld will shrink the bearing enough to be a very loose fit.
Even bearings that cant be dismantled can be shrunk out by removing the seal and just blazing away through all the crud with a welder.
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I don't know about small bearings, but if you do that to a large bearing it will explode like a grenade. We have to carbon gouge them in two , quickly
before they shatter. Reason.... They expand first before shrinking and they are hardened so they don't flex, they shatter explosively. You have been
warned.
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WG- 
Besides, everyone has a welder in the garage, right?
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Flexboardz. Blokarts.
PKD Century Soulflys. NPW's. Nasa Stars.
A few other less flown oddballs,
Line sets from 10" to 328" or 2m to 100m.
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North American distributor for PKD.
"Kite Bugging is not an addiction until you try to quit".
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