Fitting your own Bearings

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:

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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:

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:

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.

Kirkynut

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"

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.