Busted Sub, Part 10: Finally some progress!

Yesterday after work my new new bearing came, so I set about getting the spindles together and I actually accomplished that!

First things first: Since I boogered up the last bearing, I decided to make a nice supporting plate for the bearing to prevent that from happening again. I took the eBay spring collar to work, traced out a circle of the right size and cut out a disc "generously" but not tooooo sloppily:

 Not terrible, but it definitely needed some trimming to fit in the recess and support the backside ofthe bearing.

After a while carefully grinding with my favorite 4.5" grinder:

 That's much better! It just barely fits through the recess for the bearing!

Here it is in place on top of the sleeve:

 Pressing complete:

BAM!

 One spindle down, one to go!

Now on to less pleasant things . . . The spindle with the boogered bearing and cocked hub. I was at a loss for a while trying to figure out how to get the hub out, at least without scratching the nicely powedercoated surfaces. Yeah, pretty parts can be a real pain at times. I am not used to handling pretty parts, so this took a while.  After ruling out beating the hub out with a hammer like I did the first time I took the hubs out, I figured out I could stand my arbor plates on end thusly:

Honda was so smart:

 That flat boss is in the same plane as the brake caliper mounting tabs! That creates a stable mounting plane, which I used to press out the hub! AWESOME!

That left me with this:

The real pain in the but came in taking off the inner race stuck to the hub. This was cocked pretty hardcore to the side. I couldn't fit the plates I had under the race and keep it safely set up on the press, so I went back to my pulley puller setup. 

 This took a long time. I cranked on the drive pin, then took a smaller hammer and tapped the race. Note I did not say I bashed it like a caveman. I tapped it. Tapping it causes a slight amount of plastic deformation, which, after a long time of applying pressure and tapping all the way around the circumference brought the race back to straight and then it pulled off pretty easily.

I think I cranked on the thing pretty hard:

 That took way too long, but, it worked without damaging anything. It was later, so I didn't want to be using my grinder with a cutoff wheel. That would have been the quickest way, I know, but, I do try to be courteous to our decent neighbors. (That's a concept lost by all the )(*#$(*#$ that have moved onto the block in the past 5-10 years.)

I got the snapring out and proceeded to press out the old bearing:

 Once I got it to the point you see above (the bearing was basically even with the opposite side of the spindle), I used a socket and hammer to pop it out.

Then I pressed in the new bearing and hub!

DONE! Finally. Now on to putting all this stuff into my CRX. Finally.

Busted Sub, Part 9: ARG!

Today was both progressive and incredibly frustrating. Blah.

I pull my spindles out of the plastic wrap that the powdercoaters used to protect my suspension pieces to find this:

 They didn't take the tape off the inside of the spindle. *sighs*

After some gentle persuasion, it cleaned up decently:

 WD40 and gentle application of a wire brush save the day!

So then I get to pressing in the wheel bearing:

 Using one of the balance shaft bearings from a F-series Honda (leftover from a balance shaft delete I did a while back), I got the bearing pressed in easily enough.

I had to get creative and actually found a use for some cheap eBay spring sleeves:

 Oddly enough, they fit perfectly on the back of the spindle!

Don't do this:

 It just presses the bearing right out. LOL!

I used the bar across the top and that worked very well.

Another view showing how well the sleeve stuff fit:

All squished together nicely:

Snapring in place:

Next up was pressing in the new studs:

 I was trying to not ruin the fresh coating, but, well:

I was so focused on that, it took until AFTER I pressed the second stud in to realize that I was pressing them in upside down. *sighs* What a maroon . . .

One POSITIVE thing to note in this picture:

Is that my hands and fingers are not between anything. I am fairly sensitive to press safety since my father has lost parts of two fingers to presses/punches. I wear safety glasses always. I never put my fingers where they could get squished. If you have to reach into someplace not safe, use tools or just don't do it.

Something else strange happened. Threads got boogered up:

 It turns out that the threads were hitting a lip on the inside of the socket I was using for a spacer on the underside. I ruined three new studs before I realized what was happening. ARG!

I did finally get everything pressed in:

I then go to press a hub in

And I promptly ruin a bearing:

I thought that I had enough coverage on the sleeve with the inner race of the bearing, but it wasn't enough:

 The edge rolled over and the bearing went completely out of whack. Time to order another bearing. *le sigh*

I'll see if I can find something better to support the bearing. I'll get the rest of the stuff pressed together and start installing tomorrow after work, or at least that is the plan.