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Old 12-27-2009, 09:13 AM
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How to you install the new bearings. They were hard to remove , took some pounding with a driver and hammer. The new race is so thin i would not want to beat on it. It also is just a press fit so it must be tight. I thought about putting the tensioner in the oven at 250 for 1/2 hr and the bearings in the freezer . Thats how we used to install cam bearings into the cam plate on TC 88 harley motors. The pot metal expanded in the oven and the bearings being ever so slightly smaller from the freezer , they would slip in fairly easily. I would be afraid to use a press for fear of distorting the race.
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