wonderboy
03-27-2017, 09:53 PM
I HATE it when I'm stupid and break stuff taking it apart...
241341
I'm prepping my 350X frame for some work and removed the steering stem races... of course I did the lower the WRONG way. :twisted:
So my mistake was thinking I could just drive one edge and push it out crooked. NOPE.
I started on the bottom bearing, and because the top was still in position, couldn't put a large diameter object in there to push evenly... so I just used a metal drift. The bearing is too deep to come out one edge first. It's gotta be walked out carefully, little by little. I tried just hitting one side and the picture is the result.
In hindsight, I should have done the top first. It has a much shorter distance to travel to come out and probably would have worked using my horrible technique. Then the bottom I could have used the large socket to push it out evenly.
Live and learn. Looks like the part is still available from Honda, so only a $10 mistake.
On a positive note, I bead blasted my axle (also getting prepped for some "work" :naughty:) and it came out as nice as can be expected.
241342241344 Ignore the un-blasted part in the middle (leaving some indications of the original color...)
So the night wasn't a total disaster.
241341
I'm prepping my 350X frame for some work and removed the steering stem races... of course I did the lower the WRONG way. :twisted:
So my mistake was thinking I could just drive one edge and push it out crooked. NOPE.
I started on the bottom bearing, and because the top was still in position, couldn't put a large diameter object in there to push evenly... so I just used a metal drift. The bearing is too deep to come out one edge first. It's gotta be walked out carefully, little by little. I tried just hitting one side and the picture is the result.
In hindsight, I should have done the top first. It has a much shorter distance to travel to come out and probably would have worked using my horrible technique. Then the bottom I could have used the large socket to push it out evenly.
Live and learn. Looks like the part is still available from Honda, so only a $10 mistake.
On a positive note, I bead blasted my axle (also getting prepped for some "work" :naughty:) and it came out as nice as can be expected.
241342241344 Ignore the un-blasted part in the middle (leaving some indications of the original color...)
So the night wasn't a total disaster.