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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:

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04 Aug 2016 19:24 - 04 Aug 2016 19:26 #170938 by facade
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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) B)

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:

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04 Aug 2016 20:58 #170941 by kirkynut
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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05 Aug 2016 08:30 - 05 Aug 2016 08:42 #170955 by mlines
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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

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05 Aug 2016 15:45 #170962 by Jezz
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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,
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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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