A buddy of mine has a local motorcycle shop, and he'll stop by when he gets something real challenging. Enter yesterday, his latest repair had a severe wobble on the rear wheel per the owner. A test drive verified this, and they found that most of the bearing was gone on the one side. Given the center of the wheel is smaller in diameter, he wasn't able to drive the bearing out from the opposite side and decided to see what I could come up with.
The inside of the bearing was about all we had to attach to, short of welding something to it, which normally results in cracks.
Since the size worked about right, I thought I'd try this muffler expansion tool, with some modification to add grooves...
A ring of pipe is used to keep the expansion only on the end in the bearing...
Installed and snugged to the bearing race, then a thick wall pipe that fits over the end nut of the tool is used to drive out the bearing
Success!!
The inside of the bearing was about all we had to attach to, short of welding something to it, which normally results in cracks.
Since the size worked about right, I thought I'd try this muffler expansion tool, with some modification to add grooves...
A ring of pipe is used to keep the expansion only on the end in the bearing...
Installed and snugged to the bearing race, then a thick wall pipe that fits over the end nut of the tool is used to drive out the bearing
Success!!
