cooter-1

The key here is to CLEAN the hub real good before baking it. Then it is no different than a cookie sheet or pizza pan. Also, freezing the bearings helps them drop in easier. I wish I had had a large socket or something the same diameter as the bearing assembly to whack on instead of the bearing race. It took longer the way I did it since I was being very careful not to mess up parts.

theedge

Just find a bearing race driver kit. I got one from Princess Auto for something like $20CDN. Has an assortment of soft aluminum "pucks" that fit in the races, and a little handle that screws to the top of the puck. Then you just wack the end of the handle and it goes in.

shmucklebuckle

I will be installing with the oven method tonight, so we'll see how it goes.

lleroyb

I bought a toaster oven at a garage sale and mounted it to the wall. A front hub won't fit but it works for small parts and welding rod.

No matter how clean you get it I would think heat would drive fumes out of the metal pores in areas exposed to grease and oil.

When I was rebuilding my first engine I ruined my mother's small oven from engine cleaner fumes. She finally got my dad to replace it.

Lou

Yabo

when i heated the hubs / froze the races, it didn't do jack for me. It took me long enough to get the things in hammering wiht sockets, that both pieces were equal temp by the end anyway.

inactiveuser92616

oh how wrong that sounds, taken out of gearhead context.

944Fest (aka Dan P)

I've got a friend who is getting rid of a microwave,
his kid put the cat in it and turned it on.





Now everything they cook in it tastes like p*$$y!!!!

Sorry, I couldn't resist..

Manning

better than stickin a donkey in there I guess.

35thSLP

I did a Benz head in the oven a few years ago that I was doing a valve job on. If you do it in the wife's oven put something in the bottom to catch all the oil or your oven will smell like an oil change depot for a while. There is something about baking a pie and it smelling like an oil refinery in the house while it is baking that kinda kills the appetite.

35thSLP

My kid accidentally dried one of our cats in the clothes drier! She used all nine lives in one cycle! My Einstein son said "it can't be dead, it's still warm"!