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Fitting your own Bearings
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04 Aug 2016 18:44 #170934
by gusthegorilla
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Sorry Dan, didn't realise you'd had first hand experience of that particular one. ....based on these replies I'm going to part with some of my £squillions at the weekend 
Thanks chaps, and sorry for the hijack :whistle:

Thanks chaps, and sorry for the hijack :whistle:
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04 Aug 2016 19:24 - 04 Aug 2016 19:26 #170938
by facade
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there
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Don't buy it now, sign up for their newsletter.
They do VAT free weekends on their own stuff every couple of months (last one was mid July) and 10% off everything else. (You need a code from the email to get VAT free)
Get the tall one if you have room, otherwise you will need a big hole in the table to drop a halfshaft down, and you won't get a gearbox underneath it.
They are near enough double what I paid about 4 years ago :ohmy:
They do VAT free weekends on their own stuff every couple of months (last one was mid July) and 10% off everything else. (You need a code from the email to get VAT free)

Get the tall one if you have room, otherwise you will need a big hole in the table to drop a halfshaft down, and you won't get a gearbox underneath it.
They are near enough double what I paid about 4 years ago :ohmy:
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there

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04 Aug 2016 20:23 #170939
by gusthegorilla
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Didn't know that, facade, thanks very much...good tip 
Got tons of room to play with, I'll get the tallest one I can afford.....wonder if my/Dave's lottery ticket did any good :whistle: :whistle:

Got tons of room to play with, I'll get the tallest one I can afford.....wonder if my/Dave's lottery ticket did any good :whistle: :whistle:
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04 Aug 2016 20:58 #170941
by kirkynut
The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win - Edgar Watson Howe.
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My Jimny doesn't have ABS, so I don't have to deal with the rings. I've cut bearings off of spare shafts and damaged the shafts where I went too far with the grinder. I accepted my grinder cutting skills leave room for improvement and let garages cut off the bearings and retainers now and as such I let them do the whole job!
I've used a fly press at my mates to remove and replace front bearings in the past but the fronts are easy. I can't see fronts needing much pressure to push out.
The fly press makes it easy and you don't realise the pressure it applies! They're a bit big and expensive to have at home.
Friends have had poor experiences with Clarke presses as the seals have gone on them . I've experienced seals going on a Clarke jack too. I'd stick with Sealey.
You need one with the stand or have a hole in your bench for the shaft to pass through.
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I've used a fly press at my mates to remove and replace front bearings in the past but the fronts are easy. I can't see fronts needing much pressure to push out.
The fly press makes it easy and you don't realise the pressure it applies! They're a bit big and expensive to have at home.
Friends have had poor experiences with Clarke presses as the seals have gone on them . I've experienced seals going on a Clarke jack too. I'd stick with Sealey.
You need one with the stand or have a hole in your bench for the shaft to pass through.
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05 Aug 2016 08:30 - 05 Aug 2016 08:42 #170955
by mlines
Well if people liked the original KAM range of lockers and shaft products, then "I know something you don't know"
Martin
2003 M13 early KAP build.
3" Trailmaster lift with 1.5 Spacers on front
Customised winch bumper and roll cage
235/85R16 Maxxis Bighorns on 16" Rims, 4:1 Rocklobster, Rear ARB locker and on-board air
Corrected arms all-round, rear disks, Recaro seats and harnesses
Replied by mlines on topic Fitting your own Bearings
S200KYS wrote: Shame!
I take it the flanges are off another Zook?
What we need is a machining guru kind of fella that can make shafts?... :whistle:
Well if people liked the original KAM range of lockers and shaft products, then "I know something you don't know"

Martin
2003 M13 early KAP build.
3" Trailmaster lift with 1.5 Spacers on front
Customised winch bumper and roll cage
235/85R16 Maxxis Bighorns on 16" Rims, 4:1 Rocklobster, Rear ARB locker and on-board air
Corrected arms all-round, rear disks, Recaro seats and harnesses
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05 Aug 2016 15:45 #170962
by Jezz
It's been fettled just a tad.
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Dave, The drive flange's came with the half shafts. They were part of a package deal, Electric operated locker and 40% uprated shafts,
Martin, If you have any information about the original KAM shafts or manufacturer before they were taken over, I'd be very interested
as i have have been after a spare set of shafts. As i understood it when All Makes or however it was that took over KAM and dropped making the Suzuki lockers and shafts, what wasn't sold is sitting on a shelf somewhere.


Martin, If you have any information about the original KAM shafts or manufacturer before they were taken over, I'd be very interested
as i have have been after a spare set of shafts. As i understood it when All Makes or however it was that took over KAM and dropped making the Suzuki lockers and shafts, what wasn't sold is sitting on a shelf somewhere.
It's been fettled just a tad.
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