I made a major gaffe this evening. I pressed one of my axle bearings on then realized I had forgotten to put the retainer plate on first. Does anyone have any tricks for removing an axle bearing with out destroying it, or should I just take my medicine and go buy a new one?

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David Kight
'62 Valiant Signet, White
'98 Dodge Dakota
'06 Jeep Liberty

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Can you get a bearing separator between the inner race and the flange?

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Ed
64 Valiant 225 / 904 / 42:1 manual steering / 9" drum brakes

No, I pressed it on tight before I realized what I had done.

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David Kight
'62 Valiant Signet, White
'98 Dodge Dakota
'06 Jeep Liberty

Growing older is unavoidable but growing up is strictly optional.

scrap the bearing and get a new one,I'll admit to making the same mistake myself ,$40 later,you'll NEVER do it again

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V8?? We don't need no stink'n V8!!

Yeah, that's pretty much what I've decided too. Thanks.

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David Kight
'62 Valiant Signet, White
'98 Dodge Dakota
'06 Jeep Liberty

Growing older is unavoidable but growing up is strictly optional.

David what axle are you working with? I have some early style axle bearings 60to early 63 & 1 later style--- not sure the year on it-- let me know ,Lawrence

I have pressed the taper style bearings off of onealxe and pressed them on to onother using a bearing splitter. Didnt have any problems. This was with 8 3/4 axles

Lawrence, it's a late 7.25. I believe the Timken part number is RC35YYR.

I have a large bearing splitter, but the rails of my press are too close together for the axle flange to pass through. I'm going to try getting a couple of long 5/8-18 bolts and see if I can run those through the threaded holes on the splitter and pull the bearing. My concern is that the pressure against the outer race will damage the bearing. If I can get just a little separation I can get the splitter on the inner race. We'll see how it goes.

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David Kight
'62 Valiant Signet, White
'98 Dodge Dakota
'06 Jeep Liberty

Growing older is unavoidable but growing up is strictly optional.

Put some pressure on the outer race. then start heating the inner race. If you can get it to expand enough to move, then you'll be set.

Roger

I'm afraid any kind of heat will destroy the seals, since it's a sealed ball bearing. If it were an open tapered roller bearing I'd feel better about it.

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David Kight
'62 Valiant Signet, White
'98 Dodge Dakota
'06 Jeep Liberty

Growing older is unavoidable but growing up is strictly optional.

Well, I'm using a couple of bolts and nuts through the bearing separator. Working slowly and carefully from side to side it is moving. I've run out of thread on the bolts so I need to either get some with longer threads or put some kind of spacer under them. Ideal would be 5/8 fine thread bolts that would thread directly into the bearing separator but my normal outlets don't have them and the nut and bolt store is not open today.

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David Kight
'62 Valiant Signet, White
'98 Dodge Dakota
'06 Jeep Liberty

Growing older is unavoidable but growing up is strictly optional.

David the 1 bearing I have has new departure 881070-- I don't have a cross reference -- it came with some other bearings I bought for the 60-62 valiant axles-- from a few years back.
if nothing else I can take some measurements

Lawrence

Lawrence, the early axles are different and take a different bearing. I'm cautiously optomistic that I'm going to be able to save this one.

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David Kight
'62 Valiant Signet, White
'98 Dodge Dakota
'06 Jeep Liberty

Growing older is unavoidable but growing up is strictly optional.

David the bearing listed above is for the larger style axle-- just not sure which years 64-& later-- if I recall there are 3 distinct sets of axles bearings for the 7.25-- (60 to early 63) small -- I have 3 pair of these.
(63-72?) guessing & (73-76) this was discussed years ago & I think Doc had the breakdown.
The 1 mentioned above is quite a bit larger than the 60-63 style-- I do not have a cross reference to check with timken , it is an AC delco part -- when they made new dimension parts---
I'll see if I can find a cross reference ,Lawrence

Lawrence, the axle I'm working on is from a 74 Duster with large bolt pattern and 10" brakes.

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David Kight
'62 Valiant Signet, White
'98 Dodge Dakota
'06 Jeep Liberty

Growing older is unavoidable but growing up is strictly optional.