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Which is the best way to get the needle roller bearing out of the swinging arm. why the engine is out of the frame is anything else to be looked at.

couple of deep sockets and a g-clamp.

one socket small enough to press on the end of the shell of the bearing but not the swingarm and the other large enough to allow the bearing to pass into it but to rest on the swingarm. Place the smaller socket on the bearing and the larger one on the opposite side.. Then put the g-clamp over the ends of the sockets and tighten. The smaller socket will push the bearing out the opposite side into the deeper socket..

Bit difficult to explain really.. but I hope you get the jist of what I'm trying to say..lol..

Thanks,i,ll have a go tomorrow after i take my frame for welding.

Ally welding.. nice.. NOT! Hope you take it to a decent place where they can stress relieve and crack test it..

Should be ok Gia frame builders, the chap worked at spondon engineering for 20 yrs,( spondon frames)

a most excellent result there my friend..lol..

Willopotomas wrote:couple of deep sockets and a g-clamp.

one socket small enough to press on the end of the shell of the bearing but not the swingarm and the other large enough to allow the bearing to pass into it but to rest on the swingarm. Place the smaller socket on the bearing and the larger one on the opposite side.. Then put the g-clamp over the ends of the sockets and tighten. The smaller socket will push the bearing out the opposite side into the deeper socket..

Bit difficult to explain really.. but I hope you get the jist of what I'm trying to say..lol..

errrr .... from what I remember you can't easily get anything on the back end of the bearing to drift it out. You may stand a chance with one of the more fancy bearing pullers but I ended up cutting mine out using a dremel thingy.

I forgot to add that I've no idea what it's like for space. But that'll be the usual way of doing it.. Other ways are with the aid of a slide hammer, mallet n' drift or as Andy say's.. Cut it out..

There's a shoulder behind the bearing that prevents it being pushed right out the opposite side of the swingarm.

A blind bearing puller might do the job, but who's got one of them?

+1 for cutting it out.