Harbor Freight tools has a cheap contraption I think it's about 30 bucks
that they claim can be used for this and other automotive work. They
guarantee what they sell if it doesn't work. You will probably pay half as
much at a machine shop. I've never tried it but it's on my list of things
to get.
...Art
On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, Rick Astley wrote:
> I am sure others have found laughable (or cryable perhaps) the advice in the
> Haynes book, which is identical to the Workshop manual, that to remove MGB
> UJ bearing caps, after removing the circlips, you tap on the yoke with a
> copper hammer until the bearing cap emerges and then take them out with the
> fingers.
>
> I had to do a rather more than tapping to get the front ones out but the
> rear one are proving totally stubborn buggers. I am trying to use wooden
> buffers on the yoke side but the tapping on a socket I am using as a drift
> has become a smash with a 5 lb hammer which has belled out the socket and is
> peening over the edges of the hole on the yoke, which makes the situation
> worse. Still the bearing won't emerge; although it's close.
>
> I have also tried a larger socket on the "out" side and tried to press the
> drift with a vice, still no luck.
>
> Tips anyone, or the name of someone with a 5000 ton press in SE Michigan?
>
> Rick
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