<VV> Hydraulic press

[Harry Yarnell]

I welded up four rear (late) brake shoes to form a jig to press late rear 
wheel bearings; worked great.

Harry Yarnell
Perryman Garage and Orphanage
hyarnell1 at earthlink.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clark Hartzel" <chartzel at comcast.net>
To: "Virtual Vairs" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 5:54 PM
Subject: <VV> Hydraulic press


> You don't need a press to change cam gears.  Just sit the gear with cam
> facing upward on an electric hot plate.
> When everything gets nice and smoky sit the gear on the floor with your
> shoes on top and pull the cam out.
> It is not recommended that you do this barefoot or with bedroom slippers
> on!!!  GRIN
> I have a press similar to the Harbor Freight ones and nothing fits any
> Corvair application.
> I had to extensively modify the support and plates to do any axle work.
> The people who design these things seem to forget you need a big hole thru
> the support to allow axle flanges to go thru.
> And then when you have a big hole, there is nothing to support the sliding
> plates.  Rube Goldberg fixes apply!
> Clark Hartzel
>
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