<VV> Early Rear Bearings

[Frank DuVal]

I have found the whole tool pulls all bearings off, where as using just 
the plate and a hydraulic press does NOT! I have not had the complete 
tool fail me yet. I don't know why, but that's my results. My guess is 
that with 20k ponds of force, thigs get galled quickly before you know 
it happened. With using a wrench on the nuts, it goes slow enough to 
avoid damage.  During demonstrations at our Vair Fair, many an eastern 
rusted bearing was puled off eastern rusted axles. They made noise, but 
they came off. Get the whole tool.

http://www.bluechipmachineva.com/corvair.html

I've been replacing striped out flanges for 30 years. It is not a new 
phenomenon here in the east. Good no rust axle flanges were found in 
Phoenix Charlie's stash when he was at the Carlisle national. I bought 
all of them he had!

Frank DuVal

On 1/8/2012 2:06 PM, Mike McCrae wrote:
> I can tell that none, or at least not many of you have pulled a rear early wheel bearing. Even with the special  after market “cage” which I am fortunate enough to own, some bearing races are so galled on the axle that they will not come off the axle, even with 20,000lb+ presses when you get to that point you start to see the axle shaft bend. Yes, some are plain and simple throwaways at that point. If you push a bearing like that further, you risk the bearing exploding in your face with serious bodily harm to you. My advice is to carry a known axle with a known bearing, and to carry an axle flange as well, as they are now starting to strip out the splines.
> Preaching to the Choir,
> Mike McCrae
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