Anyone use this Race Removal Tool?

[sdt354]

yea i'm not too worried about putting the new one in, its getting th eold one out.

Back in, I like to put the new bearing in the freezer for a while Garrett. Heat the area around the race holding area a bit too with a heat gun on high. The old race is perfect for a driver, like Kyle mentioned.
Steve

 

[gamorg02]

Back in, I like to put the new bearing in the freezer for a while Garrett. Heat the area around the race holding area a bit too with a heat gun on high. The old race is perfect for a driver, like Kyle mentioned.
Steve

My plan exactly if the race comes out in one piece

 

[gamorg02]

got the tool in today. very well made. the flanges are a bit too big. before i grind them down i'm thinking of trying to find a steel ring. best i can measure the recess i need to get into is 1mm deep by 1.5mm high. so if i can get a ring thats 1.5mm x 1.5mm or something, cut it and bend it out it might just work. otherwise i can grind the tool down a bit.

what a pita.

 

[sdt354]

got the tool in today. very well made. the flanges are a bit too big. before i grind them down i'm thinking of trying to find a steel ring. best i can measure the recess i need to get into is 1mm deep by 1.5mm high. so if i can get a ring thats 1.5mm x 1.5mm or something, cut it and bend it out it might just work. otherwise i can grind the tool down a bit.

what a pita.

Send pics if you can?
I'm thinking my butane pencil torch on the center of the race will cook the heack out of it then tap on a notch I'll grind. That litttle torch will direct a very hot flame to a small area. If it works I'll post pics. I should be able to not effect the paint either, not that my pains that great

 

[sdt354]

got the tool in today. very well made. the flanges are a bit too big. before i grind them down i'm thinking of trying to find a steel ring. best i can measure the recess i need to get into is 1mm deep by 1.5mm high. so if i can get a ring thats 1.5mm x 1.5mm or something, cut it and bend it out it might just work. otherwise i can grind the tool down a bit.

what a pita.

What's that tool made of Garrrett?

 

[gamorg02]

Send pics if you can?
I'm thinking my butane pencil torch on the center of the race will cook the heack out of it then tap on a notch I'll grind. That litttle torch will direct a very hot flame to a small area. If it works I'll post pics. I should be able to not effect the paint either, not that my pains that great

i will upload some a bit later today. hanging out with the fam. my how priorities change! hehe

What's that tool made of Garrrett?

hardened steel i believe.

 

[gamorg02]

SUCCESS!

i ground down the tool to fit in the tiny recess. it fit, barely.

then the problem was when i tightened the bolt (actually loosened to expand it, but i digress) the top where the flanges were would become bowed in and not be parallel. so after a few attempts i got a piece of metal (it ended up being a nut) about .5mm smaller than the gap between the 'halves' where the notches were sitting in the recess. then took a chisel and used it to wedge the nut in between so the top part couldn't bow in at all.

then heated up the stem with a heat gun and slammed it from above with a big ass screwdriver and out it came.

very happy. then the bearing came right off the triple tree very easily. just ground a notch and as i tapped it i hit it at a slight angle so it started to rotate up and off.

pic attached of tool ground down on left half and in its stock form on the right.

 

[Fire-medic]

Good going on the persistence.

So now are you going to grind a couple of notches in the thickened portion of the neck so you have a relief in-which to place your drift punch, 'next time?'

SUCCESS!

i ground down the tool to fit in the tiny recess. it fit, barely.

then the problem was when i tightened the bolt (actually loosened to expand it, but i digress) the top where the flanges were would become bowed in and not be parallel. so after a few attempts i got a piece of metal (it ended up being a nut) about .5mm smaller than the gap between the 'halves' where the notches were sitting in the recess. then took a chisel and used it to wedge the nut in between so the top part couldn't bow in at all.

then heated up the stem with a heat gun and slammed it from above with a big ass screwdriver and out it came.

very happy. then the bearing came right off the triple tree very easily. just ground a notch and as i tapped it i hit it at a slight angle so it started to rotate up and off.

pic attached of tool ground down on left half and in its stock form on the right.

 

[gamorg02]

Good going on the persistence.

So now are you going to grind a couple of notches in the thickened portion of the neck so you have a relief in-which to place your drift punch, 'next time?'

honestly? probably not. it was pretty easy once i wedged something in with this tool.

cutting the steering stem just doesn't leave me all warm and fuzzy for whatever reason.

 

[Rusty McNeil]

How 'bout the race on the steering stem? I seem to remember having a dickens of a time getting that off too, I think I had to remove it with a die grinder.....

 

[gamorg02]

How 'bout the race on the steering stem? I seem to remember having a dickens of a time getting that off too, I think I had to remove it with a die grinder.....

that one was pretty easy

dremeled a slot and put a chisel in it. people said it would crack but when i hit it, it just started to spin off.

 

[Rusty McNeil]

that one was pretty easy

dremeled a slot and put a chisel in it. people said it would crack but when i hit it, it just started to spin off.

Cool, I didn't try that, once I started in on it with a die grinder I just kept going, probably would have come off easier than I thought....

 

[gamorg02]

Cool, I didn't try that, once I started in on it with a die grinder I just kept going, probably would have come off easier than I thought....

yea if i were to do it again i'd make a notch at 45? so when i hit it i'd want to rotate. could have just been my luck for once!

 

[gamorg02]

at HF the other day and wondered if the tailpipe expander wouldnt' work to clamp this. just a thought. heres the tool:

http://www.harborfreight.com/medium-tail-pipe-expander-37353.html