23-05-2018, 02:03 PM
Its out at last.
Took many heat cycles and then rapid cooling in water as well as tapping but the circlip finally let go being corroded into the groove, and started to be able to be turned. |Then it was easy to get the dam thing out.
I gently tapped the eye of the circlip to make it turn in the groove before attempting to remove the circlip.
With the eyes gap at 12 o clock it tapped the 1 o clock eye anti clock wise to make the clip rotate in that direction. Clockwise for the 11 o clock eye, lubing well.
Once the clip is "free" it came out easy.
take your time doing this else break off an eye and a whole new world of problems, but migs are great and can easily save the day
next is the well and truly stuck outer race.....pics to follow.
Took many heat cycles and then rapid cooling in water as well as tapping but the circlip finally let go being corroded into the groove, and started to be able to be turned. |Then it was easy to get the dam thing out.
I gently tapped the eye of the circlip to make it turn in the groove before attempting to remove the circlip.
With the eyes gap at 12 o clock it tapped the 1 o clock eye anti clock wise to make the clip rotate in that direction. Clockwise for the 11 o clock eye, lubing well.
Once the clip is "free" it came out easy.
take your time doing this else break off an eye and a whole new world of problems, but migs are great and can easily save the day
next is the well and truly stuck outer race.....pics to follow.