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Hi all,
Busy scanning the net while my Jetlag subsides after 24 hrs in the air and found this.
Steering Bearing press £85
Quick search showed next cheapest about £160.
Might be usful for those of you who dabble with such things.
FK

That looks good and would probably make the job much easier .... however I doubt that I'll change the bearings frequently enough to justify the cost.
Good find though.

D-Rider wrote:That looks good and would probably make the job much easier .... however I doubt that I'll change the bearings frequently enough to justify the cost.
Good find though.

My thoughts too but I know there are peoples on here that like to tinker with old bikes with rusty bearings and such.

Shame I didn't see that a few weeks ago. I'm intending to use the same method to fit the wheel bearings to my Oz wheels, and have already used that method to fit taper roller head bearings to the VFR a year or so ago.

The only difference is that I used a length of M16 studding, a couple of M16 nuts and bolts, and set of steel blanks of the correct size machined up for me by Derek Chittenden. He's in the process of machining some more up for me as we speak to suit the Oz wheel bearings.

It's a far better way of seating bearings than the usual hammer and approximate sized socket approach. When I was doing the head bearings on the VFR it was a case of screw down the nuts at either end and then give a gentle tap, then repeat until the bearing seats were home. As soon as the bearings were fully seated the noise when you were tapping the blanks changed from hollow sounding to 'solid'.

I've not needed to re-tighten the bearing races since, and that's unusual. Normally you have to ride the bike for a bit to properly seat the bearings, then go through the whole palaver again to adjust them after a few miles. This way does it right first time.

That looks like an amazing bit of kit, gonna have to look at that again on payday and buy it if its on offer, so easy to wreck bearings drifting em in just a bit out of square

Even cheaper now (but still too much for my infrequent use):

A good twat with a hammer and correct size socket has always worked for me

Some of us have a hammer

Some of us know a twat

but how many of us know a good twat with a hammer?


..... just asking .....