Whats in the oven?

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

Go on bet none of you can guess what I have in the oven right now.

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

in much the same way as a million monkeys with a million typewriters will eventually come up with the complete works of William Shakespeare (or windows XP), I reckon that given sufficient time, I could indeed guess what it is that you have in your oven. Of course by the time I stumble upon the correct answer, said item would probably no longer be in the oven but consumed by your good self, thus rendering the answer incorrect at the time of submission. It's a paradoxical situation, but one which I am fully prepared to enter into, purely for the sake of boredom relief

a pizza?

Retroholic Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 5685

Renault 19 front hub, the bearing is in the freezer

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

it cannot be eaten, but a certain frenchman may give it a go!

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

Chets the winner! Well close enough, its the hub flange.

Bearing is not in the freezer though!

Theres 1 broken bolt int he hub, managed to drill through it etc but I don;t wanna go to far cos it will get the threads, Over should heat it all up and eneable me to do somethign about it though

Retroholic Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 5685

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

lol now we know how Kelly's garage fit hub bearings!

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

That was going to be my next suggestion, after cornish pasty and hot cross bun. Laughing

Retroholic Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 5685

Slander!

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

thats 20 minutes its had.

This is the hub from my old blue 16v hatch.

Its been outside in the rai for a year so not in the best nick. It also had the driveshaft still in it.

Had to fit it to the white chammy to get the shaft out.

hub etc is all cleaned up now ready for new bearing.

The flange, I done what I could with what was left of the bolt to get it out. But it was rusted solid on the back where th emost of the bolt was poking out. This bolt was also snapped when I got that car so it could have been snapped for up to 3 years!

Anyway ground the biolt off and this allowed the threads to open a bit, I could see where the bolt ended and hub began. Drilled through it, which I could only do after getting it hot with the blowtorch.

So its been in at gsmark 5 for a while now. What exactly I am goign to do now I don't know.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

just checked it, seems the wd40 I sprayed on it the other day is weepign out fromt he threads, which is promising.

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

Even tho I am now in possesion of that flypress, I cannot use it it seems to pressout bearings....picture the hub with flange in...its very hard to support the hub on anything which leaves room to press the flange/bearing out below....

how do you get them out? press or no press? pressing them in would be easier.

all i can see to support the hub on is the two lugs that the caliper bolts to and a corressponding ledge on the other side...well fiddly/wobbly setup

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Well so far I have opened up the hoile in the centre a good bit, can see threads etc in bits now, it still will not budge, I really want this out as there rest of th eflange is perfect plus i can then sort out the bearing etc fo r it and be happy with the world again.

JB

first thing you do, get hub, remove the circlip (this is normally the hardest bit in a lot of cases) clean the groove up.

Next a hammer and a socket, I use a 22mm socket cos I ain't buying a better fitting one. Hammer the flange out.

This pops the flange out with the inner race still stuck on the flange side but the bearing will still be together in the hub.

Pull the remains of the old bearing out of the hub carrier, the balls etc.

You will then be left with the outer race in the hub.

Back to the flange. Time to get the grinder out.

Grind the inner race so you can just see the hub flange spindle. Gte a chisel and knock it off.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

I'm a spas hit bsubmit to early.

so now you have a nice clean flange ready for action.

You need to remove the outer race from the hub.

I cannot stress this enough do NOT use the arms and lugs etc on the hub carrier as support to knock the bearing out, they WILL bend.

Get a big mofo socket turn it open side up and pop the hub in there, the socket has to be big enough to put the outer race into it. If you don't have a big mofo socket and the big mofo socket shop is to mofo'ing far away you can use smaller sockets around the hub carrier lip to shift it.

To shift the outer race out you need a big mofo socket that rests on the lip.

When thats done its time to fit the new bearing.

Get the hub carrier turn it over, it will rest on its front face fine. Get the new bearign and pop it in, use the old outer race and that socket to put it in, make sure its fully home. The circlip shoudl pop in nicely.

Then time to fit the flange.

put th eflange on the bed of the pressed then the hub carrier over it, use a socket to press on the INNER race of th ebrearign and push it home.

Job done.

takes abotu 2 mins to do, take s alot longer to type how to do it!

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

its done!

Finally out. Had to use the hacksaw to cut it into sections.

new bolts go in and out just fine.

Yay!

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

Well done.

I will give the bearing job a go soon. Putting the hub in the oven and bearing in the freezer will help fitting I guess?

Cheers for the info

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

don't bother doing that if you have the press.

Its the dodgy way for people that don;t have presses.

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

fair enough, if i can fit it in my press at all that is. we shall see.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

it will.

Also it usually starts moving with a loud ping, make sure loose stuff is not gonna fall etc, as the ping makes it all jump a bit and a hammer on the toe ain't nice.

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 11:29 pm

Chris H wrote:

Go on bet none of you can guess what I have in the oven right now.

So you havent got a bun in the oven then! Very Happy