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Sometimes you lose.
I got the front right wheel apart (caliper off of disk,
pull of crown nut, pull out disk, unscrew screws pull out
hub)
Geez Mr Chris, did you really think you could get those
bloody races off without a press? I really tried, and in
fact with a lot of pounding I got the larger one off. That
one was already a bit loose and after putting the whole hub
in an oven at "broil" for 45 minutes it did come out. The
smaller one didn't move even a little. I put the new race
into the place the old one came out of (after storing it in
the freezer). It plopped right into place but then was
totally loose in the hub, which *can't* be right. Even
after putting the old bearing over the new bearing and
pounding it with something heavy it still flopped around
in the hub but it also refused to come out.
I'm going to do the following things:
get a "new" pair of hubs from a junk yard
buy a new larger bearing and race
take hubs and races to shop with press
have them press races in/out
install new hubs on car with new bearings
Should the race be at all loose? It doesn't seem like
it should but the old one was (I noticed that it was loose
months ago when I took thing apart to figure out where the
play was coming from). Is it possible that the $5 bearings
I got are not the right part? Is it possible that some
monkey screwed up the hub even before I screwed it up?
thanks,
chris
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