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Rick:
I had a thought.  A concrete anchor exands as the nut is tightened.  If you get one long enough, and were careful, will it work to grap the bottom of the bearing and pull it upward?

Here is another:  You can remove a flywheel pilot bearing on a car by packing the void behind the bearing with grease, inserting the right size bolt into the bearing and smacking the bolt gently with a hammmer.  As the bolt goes in, the grease pushes the bearing out.  Will this same principle work to remove this bottom bearing?  As the bearing come out, you will need to continue to add grease to keep the bearing moving upward.

What do you think?  Worth a try?

Rick

kawdude:
Great Ideas and both are worth a try.

I don't know if the grease idea will work because its a needle bearing and there is no void at the bottom.  I would think the grease would just squirt around the needles.

try'em they might work!  I hated drilling the case but have had no ill effects.

GreenMachine:
Hmmmm, I thought I posted a reply to this already, but it doesn't seem to be showing up. I got the bearings out. The ideas are good ones, but this is what I used to get em out.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=5469

Worked like a charm. Came with a hook and expandable claw. The hook fits right in the case. I had to remove the burs on the expandable claw to make it fit, but it does fit also. And maybe a slight bit of grinding)

I will be making a set of hardened hooks for the expandable claw cause the ones that came with it are very soft and I pretty much destroyed the ends of then getting the bottom bearing out.

Thanks for you input and I hope this helps some one else out also.

Later,
Jody

kawdude:
Cool.  I almost bought that puller from HB to do the job but didn't think it would fit.

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