moremonkey
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I'm repacking and shimming my front wheel bearings but am a little confused about how the bearings and spacer come out of the hub.
The hub is off, sitting on my workbench. The outer bearing came out easily when I gently tapped it from the inside with a drift. But the spacer won't follow it out because it is held in by the outer bearing race in the hub. Does that race need to come out in order to remove the spacer or is there something in all that nasty old grease that I can't see that's holding the big spacer in there?
The shop manual is unclear about this process (to me, at least) so I figured I would ask the Collective:
Should the spacer follow the bearing out or does the race need to come out first?
Thanks,
Jonathan
The hub is off, sitting on my workbench. The outer bearing came out easily when I gently tapped it from the inside with a drift. But the spacer won't follow it out because it is held in by the outer bearing race in the hub. Does that race need to come out in order to remove the spacer or is there something in all that nasty old grease that I can't see that's holding the big spacer in there?
The shop manual is unclear about this process (to me, at least) so I figured I would ask the Collective:
Should the spacer follow the bearing out or does the race need to come out first?
Thanks,
Jonathan