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Or you could: stick the wheel out in the sun for a couple of hours, whack the bearing in the freezer while the wheel is warming up. Tap the bearing into place using a brass drift, using the replaced bearing as a guide. Works in Oz ;)
 
Geez I've been doing it wrong for over 40 years :o Never bothered cooling the bearing, just warm up the hub and bash it in with the old bearing as a drift. Always worked for me, never fucked up a bearing housing either or had a problem with wheel bearing after fitting except after 50000 kms they show signs of wear. :D
Really, is all this liquid nitrogen palaver really necessary??
When I rebuilt the gearbox on the BM I did place the bearings in the freezer and heated the housings with a heat gun and they just fell in. Dry ice, liquid nitrogen?? OTT??
 
Terry Dymond said:
Or you could: stick the wheel out in the sun for a couple of hours, whack the bearing in the freezer while the wheel is warming up. Tap the bearing into place using a brass drift, using the replaced bearing as a guide. Works in Oz ;)
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Thankyou Terry, some sanity.

All I said was Nooooooooooo ....  :o
Interesting reading tho but funny as feck!!

Anyway, its not something you would actually do in your shed. Or is it?

Never posting anything ever again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so there......
:P :P :P
 
I must be a neanderthal, hitting my bike with hammers, removing bearings with rawl bolts and generally butchering all known nuts and bolts with vice grips, wish I had a surgery :D :D
 
Ken, up here in Canada (currently - 32c) there are cold weather greases we use for things like cross shafts in snowmobiles )similar to a swing arm). On the other hand the pregreased sealed bearings used in snowmobiles for the wheels inside the track are the normal bearings used in other applicatons.
 
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