Which Bearing Puller?

[ThreadKiller]

Morning all…
I have several bearings to remove.
Any suggestions on a “versatile” bearing puller kit to help with this?
Thank you.

[Biker9090]

Put it in the oven at 120°C for half an hour (I'm serious) and it'll tap out with no issue.

[Sidecar Man]

I use one of these split bearing pullers

[Tango13]

Biker9090 said:

Put it in the oven at 120°C for half an hour (I'm serious) and it'll tap out with no issue.

My dad used to do that back when he was rebuilding his Norton when he was much much younger, he never solved the problem of my Grandmother going batst mental though...

[Krikkit]

Sidecar Man said:

I use one of these split bearing pullers

A mere €300, bargain

[Sidecar Man]

Krikkit said:

A mere €300, bargain

He asked about a bearing puller. And that's what I use. What's the price got to do with it.
Cheaper than some new cases.

[HBelder]

I bought this one for £33 last month. It’s for a specific job - motorcycle wheel bearings - but is well made and did the job.

Perhaps search for generic bearing pullers?

[ThreadKiller]

A variety of solutions… top quality tool to the kitchen oven. :-)
And I’m sure they all work… not sure what will give me more earache though… money or commandeering the oven.
Little bit more research I think.

[Biker9090]

As long as you clean the cases properly and use the oven when she's out she'll never know. Amy type of bearing puller being used risks quite a bit of damage in these engines.

[Steve Bass]

Buy a £50 generic wheel bearing puller and a hot air gun.
The puller kit is like the one above but Amazon has them for fiddy kwid.
Heat the casing around the bearing for a couple of minutes and it'll pop out with the simple slide hammer tap on the puller.

No need for the oven and buy the wife some flowers ??

[ThreadKiller]

Bought this US pro kit for £65… the puller casting is a bit rough and won’t be the best quality in the world… but hopefully will be OK for my relatively limited planned usage…

Edited by ThreadKiller on Thursday 30th March 18:31

[Steve Bass]

ThreadKiller said:

Bought this US pro kit for £65… the puller casting is a bit rough and won’t be the best quality in the world… but hopefully will be OK for my relatively limited planned usage…

Edited by ThreadKiller on Thursday 30th March 18:31

Perfect.

Don't forget the heat gun, it really makes a huge difference

[fredd1e]

I used one of those cheap internal bearing pullers (cant recall if off ebay or amazon) on wheel bearings removal. It was a struggle to get a grip on the inner face of the bearing as the tools edge was too blunt to get between it and the bearing wheel spacer and the puller itself had too much slop in the arms so kept twisting /slipping when significant torque was applied tightening the extractor bolt. It worked eventually but it was a labour of love heat remove/rinse repeat swearing a lot, Buy cheap or spend a shed load on a professional quality tool is the conundrum. Personally if my cheapo puller failed I'd spend the cash on getting an engineering firm to remove them if I wasn't going to do this on a regular basis. I suspect you'd hopefully get lots of bearings removed for the price of a decent internal bearing puller. All just IMO & YMMV.

[ThreadKiller]

With some heat I’m hopeful all will be good. I can’t justify 100s for my level of usage and I did want to have a go myself. We will see what happens!

[ThreadKiller]

Well first one came out easy as pie… maybe too easy! Will leave it at that for tonight… stop whilst I’m ahead!