Wheel motor off and to the doctor

[ponytug]

That's it. You choose a socket just smaller than the ID of inner bearing race. Then add a few layers of electrical tape to the outside of the socket to make a good fit. Turn the socket around and use an extension through the socket the wrong way.
Then fill the area behind the bearing with grease.
Fit the taped socket into the center of the bearing. Tap with a dead blow hammer. Refill with grease if it goes in more than a little. Repeat as you drive grease into the nooks and crannies.
Presto, hydraulic force pushes the bearing out.

There are a couple of videos on YouTube.

All the best,

Peter- who is still waiting to hear the cardboard trick with 25 springs.

 

[MossRoad]

....
Peter- who is still waiting to hear the cardboard trick with 25 springs.

I imagine its like sliding a piece of paper under a glass to catch a spider, but in reverse. Install the springs, put some cardboard over them, then install a mating piece over the cardboard and finally work the cardboard out and the springs pop into the mated surface. But that's just a guess. :confused3:

 

[woodlandfarms]

Sorry guys, I have been in ****. Studio is pulling the plug, been fighting with them to try and save the project, whatever. So after a bad phone call I went out and on the advice of PT I tore my tram treddle apart. More on that in a seperate post.

OK, so the cardboard. That was something I made up when I was failing to make a point. I was trying to say that while I get a lot of confidence from my education, and I trust my skills to understand what I am doing. I realize I do not have the skills to execute them. The cardboard thing was a metaphor for the fact I would spend days trying to get something back together (well not so much a metaphor as a contrivance for a truth), and then call my buddy who has little formal educaiton and he comes up and with a bit of grease and a sheet of paper he has solved what took me 3 days to over engineer.

So sorry to say I do not have a solution to the springs and bearings we are warned about in the take apart notes. Next week I am swinging by the shop and as I may be suddenly unemployed, will ask the tech if I can watch him put it back together.

 

[SpringHollow]

I saw a seal kit had sold for $99. Not sure if that is the normal price or not.

Ken

 

[MossRoad]

Bummer about the movie. I hear you about the metaphor. There's always someone that knows something that we don't, and when they show us, its a forehead slap! because its so obvious.

I used to run a lot of network wiring for my old employer. A coworker and I had it down to a science. Well, they brought in a new guy with "decades of telecom experience" to help us out. The first wire run we had to go between floor. He tells us to set up on the lower floor and push the wire up to him on the upper floor...... so we say how about we set up on the upper floor and drop the wire down and let gravity do the work? crickets...... dude was 60 years old with 40 years in telecom and had always started at the closet and worked his way to the destination no matter the situation. It never occurred to him that you could go in the other direction once in a while if it was going to be easier. He also insisted on using an extendable pole to push wires across suspended ceilings. The pole was 20' long. We'd just tie a large nut onto a string and throw it 50-60' at a time, then pull the cables. Anyhow, he did show us some tricks in the telephone systems that we didn't know. Sometimes, until someone shows you something, it just doesn't occur.

 

[aczlan]

We'd just tie a large nut onto a string and throw it 50-60' at a time, then pull the cables. Anyhow, he did show us some tricks in the telephone systems that we didn't know. Sometimes, until someone shows you something, it just doesn't occur.

Or if you have to buy (and justify) a large nut vs grabbing one out of the bolt bins in the tool room...

Aaron Z

 

[woodlandfarms]

I did Tele / video wiring for a brief period of time. A good friend installed home automation / TV / telecom in the uber riches homes. We tended to spend our days in 30,000 sq ft houses... Installing 30 or 40 tv sets and such (this was the days of LCD and Plasma just starting). I remember one house where the air conditioner was underneath the tennis court, and we had to get controls into the attic of the main house a quarter mile away. That is where I learned the plastic bag and the hoover trick. Now I am a hero when friends are doing their own installs.

 

[ponytug]

Yes, the first time I saw the plastic bag and hoover trick was an OMG moment for me. We were running wire 1/3rd of a mile.

All the best, Peter

 

[MossRoad]

Yep, for me it was a shop rag on a string and a shopvac. Was retrofitting automatic paster units on a printing press and had to run wires from one end of the machine to the other, about a half a city block. Rather than taking the box covers off at each of the 9 units and using a fish wire, the old electrician I was working with had me replace all the box covers, then sucked it through all the way to the end in one shot. That's one of those tricks you never, ever forget and use several more times in your life with great satisfaction... especially if someone else is scratching their head and you say "Hold my beer and watch this." :drink:

 

[aczlan]

The first time I tried that trick, I was using a leaf blower and some bags in a 4" conduit that had a large cable TV line in it (after striking out several times with a fish tape).

Aaron Z