Changing Sealed Wheel Bearings On Late Model Harleys

Okay. Here are the proper “Special Purpose” tools for changing bearings and dealing with special issues as they come up. We will change these bearings.

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Something here in the in the shop and and Mike came by and said hey why aren’t we doing a video of that I said well we’ve done this before they he says well we’re doing it again I said okay um basically what it is is I’m

Fixing up a wheel for a friend of mine I uh found the wheel at a swap meet and had a great time and lo and behold it turned out I got the wheel from his cousin which is cool because his cousin is like this super nice guy who didn’t

Want to charge me for the wheel anyway so it’s really cool the way it all worked out um anyway what I’m doing is this wheel is not off a springer and it’s going on to my friend Springer and and so I’m going to have to offset the

Rim on it to allow for the fact that it’s going on a springer and I will show that probably in another video on this video what we’re going to do is we’re going to put these bearings in and I was starting to take them out and had a little trouble with the

Tool so I’m finally getting it going now now on his bike he has a 3/4 in axle and these bearings are set up for a different bike which has a 1-in axle so I’m needing to change the bearings and these are the the modern sealed ball bearings so I’m tightening this tool

Here to pull this bearing out with and uh we’ll be ready to do that here in a minute and then I’ll show the tool as we pull out the other bearing with it okay cuz I’m not showing it very good right now and I’m sorry I’m not taking it out

And starting over all I was trying to do was get a job done here M and Mike oh he he wants to be productive about it you know so okay okay we’ll be productive we’ll be like I said I’ve done this on on videos before

And I it really is a good idea to to redo some of our some of the videos we’ve done to do the same stuff again because first off we uh get better the more we do just like everybody else in other words if I’ve shown how to do

This once and you didn’t get it real well maybe if I do it again I’ll show it a little better and you’ll and it’ll sink in a little better because I did a better job I don’t know it just seems like it well it does seem like it I mean

You know nobody’s perfect and it’s like you’re trying to show everything with the camera and quite often I don’t hold it right so that you can even you know yeah although you do real good with it anyway so you do very well certainly pleases me okay now what I’m going to

Do is this piece here is going to pull the whole thing out for us so as I tighten this nut okay I just want to be sure that that bolt is in there all the way because what that does is that tool let me show you the other tool this

Is for the for the bearing we’re going to put in actually but what this does let me show it real well is this lip right here goes into the bearing and and goes between the space between the bearing and the spacer there’s a spacer between the two bearings so you get that

In there which is what I pound in with my trusty little Rawhide mallet I grease it up so that it doesn’t wear too badly then there’s a bolt goes in from the other side that spreads these fingers so that this so that this lip is really tight in that Groove then we put

This piece which is going to catch that bearing when it comes out and this nut tightening against this piece here he going to pull draw that bearing right out of there and like I said we’ll show it on the next bearing here maybe we’ll be able to show it a little better

Better but here it is and so this is a 58 and this is like a 1 and an e okay we got it nice and tight now we’re going in the proper direction we’re going to tighten it and it’s going to pull that bearing right out of

There now this is in a in an effort to show more tools keep getting asked by everybody to show more tools and tell me what brand they are and where I can buy them okay now all of the major aftermarket suppliers carry some pretty good tools uh I usually use gim’s machine

That’s what most of my special purpose tools are I think I can see coming out I don’t know I don’t know it must be coming out yes it is I see it there it is see through one of the little Windows is that a window to the world

Yeah now I greased up all these tools where they rubbed together so that they won’t wear out any faster than necessary and this bearing is just about out of here in fact the magical words you ready and there it is okay now I want to take this tool apart

Slowly you want to show them where the lip grabs it right there mhm there it is see that’s the same as on this tool which is smaller mhm but it’s the same idea and here the bolt is going in all that way to spread it so I’m going to take this apart

Now oh it’s coming right out look at that it’s coming right off that bolt nice yeah I didn’t expect that but there it is and you still getting on to that I mean can you still see it I see through the spokes okay that’s what I was wondering

Because let me get a little closer well I just want people to be able to see it okay now we got that off of there and this washer here acts as a bearing for that nut and here we are with this piece and watch closely that’s it let’s see here just for

Fun I didn’t even know what kind of shape these bearings were in and I really didn’t care they don’t feel bad but we learned something yeah that’s okay now I’m going to look into this Hub because I can okay you want to take a look in

There I did you okay and here’s the spacer okay there’s the spacer oh yeah okay now I’m going to look in there make sure that everybody happy in there everybody looks pretty happy in there now see if I put in do I have the right size spacer for it right length

Spacer uh the other question is I can’t see I can’t use this or can I can I use that big spacer this is the spacer I just pulled out right yeah this is sick you know looks like it’s well it does I just don’t know if that’s a good

Idea because the right size spacer goes against there a whole lot better mhm and I don’t think I like this and if I don’t like it it’s not going to happen I mean it’s just I need one like that you know this one is too short and this

One I think what I’ll have to do is order the right one so as much as I hate to say it another video well I think we can stick with this video video for a moment I would like to tell everybody what’s wrong here I’m switching bearing

Sizes and the spacer that was in there goes like that and it will hit against that but I just I don’t feel good about it I would rather have the proper diameter spacer and the proper length spacer and that’s exactly what I’m going to do so that’s what we’re doing for now

And and I will order one on Tuesday morning probably but I would also like to say couple of things tomorrow is the hippie killer ho down in Winchester California uh opens at 11:00 runs 11: to 6 they’re going to have cars and motorcycles and bands and food and I

Mean just about everything there and it will be a ball it’s put on by some really nice people in Winchester California Califor in fact the same guy cuy Noteboom that we did interview in a past video when he had the hippy killer ho down in Tula well he used to have it in

Winchester and this is kind of an old home sort of a celebration he’s doing tomorrow and we will be there um including the art Department he will be with us and our buddy John and who knows who else is going to come along also I’d like to mention our

Shirts if you go to Pacific mik.com which is our own personal website up in the corner it says shirt store you click on that and you can order t-shirts and baseball caps we do have a really nice baseball cap now with Pacific mic embroidered on it um our newest t-shirt now we do

Have the knucklehead so we have some pretty fun stuff we have a nice shot of baby doll on one shirt and we have we have the knucklehead on the others and the other two they’re just me we don’t we don’t need to go there okay there’s the

Knuckle in the top right you’re right the knuckle is on both of those with me so the knuckle’s getting more more pressed than anybody but anyway uh like I said hopefully we’ll see you at the hippie killer ho down tomorrow and until then I’ll see you out on the road