Steady Bearing
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Steady Bearing
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I worked on the steady bearing last night and thought I could do it in a hour or soo. Nooo way I haven't even got it off. I heated and the put on a bearing puller and pulled it really tight and continued heating it. The old bearing will not come off and the new one is itchen to be put on. What are the tricks to getting this off. Cause I blister my hand from it being red hot and the bearing puller is really snug. Is the rust causing it to not to move. Because nothing is holding it. How have you guys done this, its really tight. How could I be doing this wrong? Thanks for your replies.
I worked on the steady bearing last night and thought I could do it in a hour or soo. Nooo way I haven't even got it off. I heated and the put on a bearing puller and pulled it really tight and continued heating it. The old bearing will not come off and the new one is itchen to be put on. What are the tricks to getting this off. Cause I blister my hand from it being red hot and the bearing puller is really snug. Is the rust causing it to not to move. Because nothing is holding it. How have you guys done this, its really tight. How could I be doing this wrong? Thanks for your replies.
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Fear not John. . . I doubt it's us who are confused again (Heh heh heh heee yah!) 
[my post # is confusing!]
Maybe he's referring to the "C" ring used on a splined stub shaft of a driveshaft from Midship/ Center support bearing set up when it's a 2 piece drive shaft?
Or maybe it's a test, or Maybe a trick question . . . . . . Huh?
FBp
[my post # is confusing!] Maybe he's referring to the "C" ring used on a splined stub shaft of a driveshaft from Midship/ Center support bearing set up when it's a 2 piece drive shaft?
Or maybe it's a test, or Maybe a trick question . . . . . . Huh?
FBp
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If it's the center bearing of a 2 piece driveshaft, the only way I've ever gotten one off is by cutting it with a grinding wheel. No picnic to put the new one on, either. Have some kind of tool (like a pipe that just fits over the shaft) ready to pound the new one on. Make sure it only contacts the inner race of the bearing! I put the shaft in the freezer, and warmed the bearing a little; I'm not sure if it helped or not.
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FLgargoyle is right about the steady bearing it is the center bearing on a two piece drive shaft. Well i'm going to try and cut through it but it is thick. Thanks for the tip FLgargoyle. Hmm around here the the "center bearing" is always called a steady bearing. It just might be local I don't know. Good question.
FLgargoyle is right about the steady bearing it is the center bearing on a two piece drive shaft. Well i'm going to try and cut through it but it is thick. Thanks for the tip FLgargoyle. Hmm around here the the "center bearing" is always called a steady bearing. It just might be local I don't know. Good question.
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We call 'em "carrier bearings" around here. The books seem to call them "center support bearings." To each his own, i guess.
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I agree with Neal.
Books do call 'em center support bearings. Some colloquial vernaculars [local lingos] I heard 'em referred to as Midship (or was that mishap?) bearings, and carrier bearings, but "steady bearing" is a new one to me too. Now I'm better informed on the subject.
When I hear steady bearing I think being on course, due on ETA, arriving in a correct location. You know, like hold correct coordinates, altitude & speed to get wherever I'm supposed be to land on time. Over thought that one didn't I ?
Wait until y'all run across one of those set ups that has the "C" clip I referred to. If you don't know there's a "C" clip on it & remove it 1st, nothing can get bearing off.
I don't remember what that was on, maybe it was a Peterbilt power unit for a Semi.
Anyhow it's sort of like "C" rings used on U-Joint trunion caps in some vehicles. . . .
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Books do call 'em center support bearings. Some colloquial vernaculars [local lingos] I heard 'em referred to as Midship (or was that mishap?) bearings, and carrier bearings, but "steady bearing" is a new one to me too. Now I'm better informed on the subject.
When I hear steady bearing I think being on course, due on ETA, arriving in a correct location. You know, like hold correct coordinates, altitude & speed to get wherever I'm supposed be to land on time. Over thought that one didn't I ?
Wait until y'all run across one of those set ups that has the "C" clip I referred to. If you don't know there's a "C" clip on it & remove it 1st, nothing can get bearing off.
I don't remember what that was on, maybe it was a Peterbilt power unit for a Semi.
Anyhow it's sort of like "C" rings used on U-Joint trunion caps in some vehicles. . . .
FBp
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Lingos are interesting.
I was working with this Tech. from New Zeland once and he asked me for a "grab screw", well I had to take him back to the nut and bolt supply bins and let him sort through them. What he came up with, is what we call a socket set screw.
But hey I now know what a grab screw is..and I can now add steady bearing to my memory banks.
anyone else got a good lingo exchange?
jd
I was working with this Tech. from New Zeland once and he asked me for a "grab screw", well I had to take him back to the nut and bolt supply bins and let him sort through them. What he came up with, is what we call a socket set screw.
But hey I now know what a grab screw is..and I can now add steady bearing to my memory banks.
anyone else got a good lingo exchange?
jd
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Really quite easy actually
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For all of you who want to know the "steady bearing" is actually quite easy. Step one: Take the driveshaft off and the steady bearing off and put it into the vice. Step two: Cut the thing off with a grinding wheel don't even bother pulling it as it won't come. Step three: once it's off get a pipe just slightly larger the the end and pound the steady bearing on, be careful and make a sure you clean it up with emory cloth. It's actually quite easy.
For all of you who want to know the "steady bearing" is actually quite easy. Step one: Take the driveshaft off and the steady bearing off and put it into the vice. Step two: Cut the thing off with a grinding wheel don't even bother pulling it as it won't come. Step three: once it's off get a pipe just slightly larger the the end and pound the steady bearing on, be careful and make a sure you clean it up with emory cloth. It's actually quite easy.
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