DC350

i have to get my whole drivetrain installed today! and i cant get the bearing out, it's just the outter part of the bearing still in the shaft, and the bearing puller doesn't work. i have tried cutting the **** out but that doesn't work either! any ideas?!?!?!?!??

DC350

please guys! i need to get this bearing out noww!!

vmb

im sorry dude but you are f-up
that thing is a motha to get out
even with the mazda tool
i had to grind it out when it broke in there

DC350

okay, thanks anyways man, i will try to use a Die grinder and get it out

niner

I've used a cutting torch once to get one out.

MIKE-P-28

iTrader: (1)

Take a small flathead screwdriver, tap it in there lightly... Bend the screwdriver outward, thus bending the bearking inward, move the screwdriver to the opposite side and repeat. Keep doing this until the bearing bend inward a lot, take a needle nose set of pliers and pull. If that dont work, repeat the screwdriver steps. When you get it out take a hammer and smash the **** outta it, for gradification. Just removed one on a motor I had here, took 5 minutes

Be careful to not damage the E shaft tho

Matlock

I used a dremel. It took me about 2 hours. It sucked, but it worked for me. Good luck!

Sniper_X

Its so much easier!!!

Get a metal or hard wooden dowel the SAME SIZE as the -inner diameter- of the bearing.

Make sure the dowel moves freely in and out of the bearing without too much space on the sides.

(Use the transmission pilot shaft as a guide)

THEN...

Take a few cups of water and a few paper towels.

Soak the paper towels in the water and tear thiem into small peices. (important)

Insert as much soaked paper towels as you can into the hole.

Pack them in until you reach the bottom (back) of the bearing.

Then...
Be perpared to be amazed...

Plae the dowel in the hole touching the water soaked paper towels.

Then switfly and firmly strike the dowel with a HEAVY hammer.

The water will shoot out the only place possible.....

behind the bearing.

The bearing will fly out of the hole abruptly.

You will now begin to laugh hysterically.
( This is normal. do not be afraid. )

The faster you hit the dowel with a heavy hammer the better.

You have to "SURPRISE" the bearing out.

This works.

(Now ask me how you can remount a tire with just a lighter.)

rxseven

Man, that is the funkiest technique I have heard yet!

HOZZMANRX7

iTrader: (43)

No way......, that is just too easy. I'll have to try that next time.

I spent $50 and got a good bearing puller. Mazdatrix sells a good one that works with a slide hammer.

But, the one way I've tried and been successful without these tools IS the small flat head screw driver trick.

Already been said, but to say again:

First, use a screw driver to scrape out the roller bearings. Then, get one (works better with two at the same time) long narrow flat head and tap in between the bearing housing and the female hole wall it mounts in. Bend inward making a V on either side. This relieves the pressure against the inner wall. Then, it should easily slide out with a pair of needle nose.

I know a couple very well known excellent rep shops that do it this way as standard proceedure. So, take confidence in that.

Good luck.

Sniper_X

Ive DONE IT....

DC350

Well, i didn't get the replies, so i took a Die Grinder and grinded that son of a !@#$% outta there, now i gotta clean inside the E-shaft and insert the new bearing....i should just use a socket? And lightly tap it until it hits the end?

Sniper_X

wood

Use a block of wood

DC350

What am i supposed to do with the wood? Hit the shaft with it?

Sniper_X

hit the wood with a hammer to force the bearin gin, then tap a deepwell socket into it to seat it at the bottom of the angle that is on the rim of the E-shaft.

DC350

THANKD SNIPER! AND EVERYONE ELSE!

Sniper_X

HEY!!!

MIKE-P-28

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