Latest wrenching trick i’ve learnt :)

"BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228) 09/13/2017 at 17:56 • Filed to: None

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If you’ve got a recalcitrant bearing race in a wheel bearing or something (this one is a trailing arm bearing on the BX) or one that only has the tiniest lip to hammer on, weld a circle of sheet onto the race itself to provide something to hammer against.

Also heats it up which breaks any rust too :)

duurtlang > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 09/14/2017 at 06:17

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So the BX will be roadworthy again soon?

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > duurtlang 09/14/2017 at 09:24

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It shall! To be honest, it should have been a while ago but I got most of the way through fixing it and got side-tracked by motorbike and Spitfire ;)

Now the weather’s getting a bit cold again it’d be nice to have a free garage space for short jobs like oil changes and whatnot so it’s been bumped up the priority list ;)

Need to change the trailing arm bearings and just discovered that the rear wheel bearings are sounding pretty unhealthy so they’ll get changed too. Then I think it should be good to go!