damn thing simply will not come out!!!

[SuperHO]

okay...got the knuckle off, got the hub and most of the bearing out...can't get the race out. took it to the shop at work where they stuck it in a 20 ton press, only to be laughed at by the defiant bearing remains. is there a trick to getting that son of a motherless goat outta there, or am i now in the hunt for a new(ish) knuckle? dear God, this car's going to be the death of me...

 

[Eastcoast SHO]

when that happened on my 94, me and my father in law went to his work and used a 40 ton press and still would not budge, same scenerio, we ended up cutting it out with a torch

 

[NotSoSlowSHO]

On mine, I welded a small piece of square tubing to the inside of the race, then pressed it out.

I can go take a pic of it if you want doood

 

[Eastcoast SHO]

On mine, I welded a small piece of square tubing to the inside of the race, then pressed it out.

I can go take a pic of it if you want doood

yeah i am curious to see this........


all i did with mine was use a cutting torch, and cut it just enough to take a hammer a chisel to snap it out of place

 

[NotSoSlowSHO]

Ill go take a pic... after dinner

 

[hawkeye18]

You might try hitting it with a hammer. Sometimes shock stress works well to dislodge things that pressure won't...

 

[SuperHO]

yeah, hitting it with a hammer didn't do shit...I'd been beating on it for quite some time. one thing I did notice is that there was a lip on both ends of the race on the inside the spindle, though it's not like the race moved at all in order to bind up on one of those lips. we tried beating on it, we tried beating on it with a 5lb hammer and a punch, we tried the 20 ton press...I'm at my wits end with this damn thing.

 

[Eric VerValin]

You guys still running the bearings you installed after you cut those out? I worried about warping the knuckle.... I had to heat mine up cherry red and use a 3lb hammer, then beat the thing like it owed me money.... after a while it finally fell out... But I didn't cut it, or heat the inside up at all... was afraid it would warp...



I'm kind of a noob with the "Ford wrench". When things get red and you push the button, you blow the shit away... and its fun... my other friend is good enough to cut lug nuts off aluminum wheels... I wouldn't try it...

 

[Eastcoast SHO]

You guys still running the bearings you installed after you cut those out? I worried about warping the knuckle.... I had to heat mine up cherry red and use a 3lb hammer, then beat the thing like it owed me money.... after a while it finally fell out... But I didn't cut it, or heat the inside up at all... was afraid it would warp...



I'm kind of a noob with the "Ford wrench". When things get red and you push the button, you blow the shit away... and its fun... my other friend is good enough to cut lug nuts off aluminum wheels... I wouldn't try it...

no i didnt have a problem at all, but it did fail 2 years later because at the time i didnt know that once you press the new one in you have to press it out a little bit, all i did was press it all the way in and left it

 

[Racer X]

Tim, you did remove the retaining ring before trying to press it out, correct?

 

[NotSoSlowSHO]

here you go guys.

Just a small section of square tubing, sanded a bit at the corners to slip in the race, and welded at each joint from both directions. Once I did this, the race came right out. It also serves as a slick tool for installing the new bearing.

 

[SHObill]

no i didnt have a problem at all, but it did fail 2 years later because at the time ------------i didnt know that once you press the new one in you have to press it out a little bit,--------------- all i did was press it all the way in and left it

------i didnt know that once you press the new one in you have to press it out a little bit,---------
NEVER heard of this before! --anyone else verify this??? I also must do a rt frt wheel bearing. Just pulled a spare spindle out of 'the box' & planning to take it in & have a new bearing pressed in tomorrow.

 

[NEp8ntballer]

weld a bead around the inside of the race. when the bead cools it will contract the race with it relieving some pressure and you should then be able to hammer it out.

 

[Eastcoast SHO]

------i didnt know that once you press the new one in you have to press it out a little bit,---------
NEVER heard of this before! --anyone else verify this??? I also must do a rt frt wheel bearing. Just pulled a spare spindle out of 'the box' & planning to take it in & have a new bearing pressed in tomorrow.

i never heard it before either until i did mine, but if you bring it to a shop they will do it anyways, most bearings are like that, i dont know why. I heard it was because of pressure.

I guess once you push the bearing in all the way it has pressure then you just press it out a little to relieve the pressure. that is what i was told at the ford dealership when they did my second one.

i have had three bearings done on 2 of my sho's. the first one i messed up and the other two was done by ford, and both dealers told me the same thing

 

[NEp8ntballer]

i never heard it before either until i did mine, but if you bring it to a shop they will do it anyways, most bearings are like that, i dont know why. I heard it was because of pressure.

I guess once you push the bearing in all the way it has pressure then you just press it out a little to relieve the pressure. that is what i was told at the ford dealership when they did my second one.

i have had three bearings done on 2 of my sho's. the first one i messed up and the other two was done by ford, and both dealers told me the same thing

eh, they have to press the hub in so that should push it back as well...

 

[USHOMEISHOU]

I had the same problem once, I wound up chucking the whole knuckle in the garbage and finding a newish one at the junkyard