Spindle bearings

[Mtn_Man]

After messing with the punch, a brass drift and a large flat blade screwdriver to no avail I ended up making a tool to be able to remove the spindle bearing from my wife's 94. The bearing has a rounded shell and sits in a flare so the straight on method only gets a tangential bite and ends up constantly slipping off instead of moving the bearing. So I got an old flat blade screwdriver with a busted tip out of the drawer, ground the end flat to be the punch and took out the shoulders of the blade making it look more like a "T" so I could fit in the flare. Took about three minutes. Took even less time to remove the bearings. Yet another custom tool added to the drawer. Best part: it's and old Popular Mechanics screwdriver made (and now modified) in the US of A.

 

[Roadrunner777]

Any chance of a picture?

 

[Mtn_Man]

Here ya go brother:
http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k516/Ylexot53/Auto/IMG_0365.jpg
http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k516/Ylexot53/Auto/IMG_0364.jpg

On the second picture you can see that I removed the shoulder to give it more of an hour glass shape. This is what gets around the flare in the spindle.

 

[Roadrunner777]

Thanks! I was wondering if that bearing was pressed in or what, and now I see it is, and a tool to get it out.

Thanks again!

 

[mehedgec]

Can't get ahold of a slide hammer and bearing puller attachment? Autozone rents them.

 

[Mtn_Man]

Leading edge of the bearing is rounded which makes it difficult to get a bite on it. There's not much room in there. Ford lists a special tool which does not look like pilot bearing puller - it looks like a punch with a disc face. Mine's the same thing, only flat. And it lives in my tool box.