How to pull a bearing off a shaft

If the bearings are too tight to slide off use a gearpulley puller. Minimizes damage to the shaft and housing.

Take your hammer and gently hit your axle shaft to pull it off.

How to pull a bearing off a shaft. However adequate space must be available for it to successfully remove the bearing. Similarly to the hammer and drift method this can also leave scratches andor gouges on the shaft. When the hammer and drift and bearing puller methods fail destructive methods are used as a final attempt to remove a bearing from the shaft.

When we remove a smaller bearing use a suitable punch to gently tap the side of the bearing ring to remove it from the shaft. A better method is to use a mechanical puller Figure 1. Pulling acts on the inner ring or adjacent parts.

If there is a groove between shaft shoulder and bearing housing bore shoulders for the puller. Hold shaft in hand with bearing up thump opposite end on wood straight down inertia will drive bearing down shaft this looks to be a spindle bearing they are slip fit and as long as it isnt cockeyed or galled to shaft it will come right off with the method described. Remove and Install a Bearing with Timken Shaft Guarding Technology for Setscrew Units - YouTube.

Sorry Tommy but there is no good way to take off bearings so that you can reuse them I have ever found. Ive got several Posi-Loc pullers that work ok if the situation allows. Even then once you apply pulling force to the outside race of a bearing you have ruined it.

Usually we end up cutting the bearing off with either a cut off tool or the torch. Minimizes damage to the shaft and housing. Use two or three jaw mechanical pullers.

Easy removal if you use a heavy duty separator. Be careful when using a high-speed tool as you may damage the shaft or housing. Im trying to pull these small bearings off of an electric motor shaft top bearing is approx 30mm OD and on an eccentric camoffset shaft and the bottom bearing is about 45mm OD.

I have bearing pullers but theres no space to get the jaws behind the top bearing and not possible on the bottom bearing becuase therell be no centre median to pull against due to the shaft. In all cases if applying force to the OUTER ring rotate the puller as you remove the bearing. You may hear the rollers clunk into place as the pulling force is evenly distributed through all the rolling elements to the bearings rings.

Pull on the proper ring of the bearing the one with the press fit. How to replace rear axle bearing and seal. These are radial bearings.

I got the old bearings off with a standard bearing puller and actually I got one new bearing pressed on as I could do that with shaft in my work bench but now I need to press the second bearing on so that the shaft is in the housing. There are no shoulders on shaft. The best way to remove worn out gears or bearings from a shaft is to pull them off using a gear puller.

These have arms that hook behind the gear or bearing and a centre screw. They are available at any local auto store and come in various sizes and designs. The one pictured here is a simple two-legged one suitable for small gears and bearings.

When removing bearings that have a backing shoulder that extends beyond the cone large rib a puller that pulls through the rollers should be used. Hydraulic pressure is another available method to remove bearings. Pullers or wedges may be used to remove the bearing after the hydraulic pressure has expanded the race.

Hot oil or heat may be used along with the pullers or. You might have to remove the outer race dremel tool and thin blade grind cut it offthen youre left with the inner race heat it till you cant touch it not much more then try and pull it off. You can make a puller to close up on the shaft.

Take two pieces of flat stock steel grind a half hole on one edge of both pieces make it sharp like a chisel then close the two pieces. Jan 31 2010. Get the press bearing seperator clamp it under the bearing and wack on the tool with a sledgeitll knock the bearing off.

To get a new bearing back on cut the outer race off the old bearing and put the inner race over the top of the new bearing which you slide onto the input shaft. Hammer on the old race and tap the new. Take your hammer and gently hit your axle shaft to pull it off.

Removing the bearing from the axle shaft. Carefully remove the hook holding the ABS cone. Use your screwdriver and gently pull out the ABS cone the next step is the use light a welding light or centerline light to puncture the bearing so you can easily remove the balls in the bearing.

Now with the usage of bearing removal utility please remove the axle bearings. There are alternate ways people are using to accomplish this task. The easiest way is to use a small diameter pipe and a hook nose pry bar.

Push the pipe and use pry bar from other side. Old pick-ups and the 64 Impala both had carrier bearings in the middle of their two piece drive shafts. If you are asking how do you get it out of your car you have to pull the drive shaft which is the same as any one piece drive shaft unbolt universal joint bolts the added procedure is the removal of the two screws that bolts the carrier bearing to the frame of the car.

Loosen the two 2 set screws in each of the bearings and slide them off. If the bearings are too tight to slide off use a gearpulley puller. Do not use a hammer or any other blunt force object to work the bearing off of the shaft.

If the shaft becomes damaged it may need to be replaced. 8 tap drive axle towards clutch side remove speedo side bearing. 9 tap drive axle towards chaincase side remove axle chaincase bearing.

What I dont follow is how to get these bearings off. The post makes it sound like they will just pop right off and I highly doubt that. I just finished changing the bearings in my rear axle and it was.