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Originally Posted by patb069
To add to Jigerman's thread, how do you get the "Freeze Rings" off. I was blessed with the purchase of a machine that does not have those nice and easy snap rigs holding my bearings on. I have the old style 3 hole flanges and absent cutting the rings off I have noe idea how to remove them. My instruction manual says to pull them off hydrolically, but I cant see where you would be able to fit a puller as this ring is about 3/4 of an inch long and butts right up against the bearing. On the other side I have about 8 inches of axle to overcome. I have tried holding the flange and hitting the ground with the butt of the axle.  No luck. I dont care about killing the bearing, but I dont want to have to find a new flange. Any advice?  |
Can you take a picture of the style bearing you have? I have messed with 2 different styles of the 3 bolt flange on the first gen. attex. Both of them where pressed on the axle. One style had c clips that hold the bearing in the flange and another is the insert style bearing where you have to put the bearing in the flange at a 90 degree and then once it is in it will flatten out in the flange. You can't take the flange off of that one with the axle in the bearing. I haven't seen any where there is a c clip holding the bearing on the axle. Both of those are pressed on the axle and the outer side of the axle is slightly smaller then the inside. I have been able to take off and replace these bearing by putting the axle inside something so to hold it up by the flange. Making sure it is something to spread the whole surface area of the flange out on. Then put a socket or something on the axle side where the wheel hub would go to protect it and pound away. I did mushroom one axle out that I didn't protect but I was able to grind it off and it doesn't effect anything but extra work. It cant be mushroomed for the bearing to slide of.