dualblade

turns out that a nickel is the perfect size to be bigger than the bearings but smaller than the hole in the clutch fork. i had figured this out back when i was doing my clutch, but i know a couple of other people are doing clutch jobs now and thougth this might help them out. not everyone has a press in their homes and this was is easier than hammering on bearings for a while. you'll need 7 or 8 nickels to pull this off. just turn the c clamp until the bearing pops out a bit and then keep stacking nickels until the bearing comes out

runnin' on empty

Thanks for the great pics and tip.

Campeck

knowledge is power!

dualblade

also, if you don't feel like using nickels, i'm guessing a socket would work as well. i haven't looked, but i'm guessing there's a socket about the size of a nickel that could be used in the same way. i just thought of this because then you wouldn't have to stack nickels

KuHL 951

I used a socket and bench vise, in and out in less than 5 minutes.

Sam Lin

I clamped it with a large socket on the backside of the bearing, so I didn't apply clamping force across the span of both arms. Probably won't cause any damage your way, but I didn't want to risk a tight bearing stressing the cast arm.

Sam

Granite 944

Touche' Andrew! Theres almost always, more than one way to skin a cat! I love the many different ways of problem solving thats found on this list.

dualblade

when i did it, i didn't tighten the clamp till it was touching the arm. obviously it had to put pressure on the other side but when the clamp was getting close, i just added another nickel to maintain a space. the socket method is probably easier and i'll try that if i have to do another clutch job. when i looked at what needed to happen, i thought up the clamp idea, and figured i'd need to look for something the right size to press in there. i started looking around me and i had some change in my pocket. tried a quarter, dime, and nickel and the nickel just happened to be the right fit