Sorry, I have plenty of 5H117's, just forgot to list them on the website, which I have now done.
Mal
Printable View
Tinkerer77
I took my spindle apart on the weekend and some of the spring wire is missing, I have contacted Mal and he is posting 2 out.
When I get it how do you put it onto the shaft and what is the orientation ?
I get that you assembly it and put it onto the shaft be how do you get it past the rear bearing seal?
Thank you, sorry to ask but it is probably safer for me to ask
Simon
Hi Simon
The wire just wraps around the sleeve, it should have enough flexibility to push up into the slot in the spacer as you push it on, the wire should just wrap around once and poke through the hole, I will try and get a photo today for you.
Steve
I've not ordered up the little spring yet or the replacement bearings. What was the part number for this spring? It might be in my parts tray or jammed in the old spindle.
I'll get one with my order for the bearings when I do that.
I was going to come back here when I had the new bearing in hand and ask some more questions about the rebuild. I still have to get the cups out.
Will those just press out or should I weld the old cups to shrink em?
Thank you Steve
https://australianmetalworkinghobbyi...&search=spring
As far as getting the old cups out you should be able to just tap them out using a punch and hammer, there isn't much purchase on them and if you knock them out evenly you shouldn't have an issue, 9" ones are the hardest to get out, the spring could still be in the spacer, they normally don't fall out.
Not related to the wire but for future reference the bearing cups are backed by seal cups. Obvious to everyone else apparetly but not to me! I swear that for all the world they looked like part of the casting of the head. Even the texture looked the same. So I was loathe to try and get a punch past them to knock the cups out. They really did look like part of the housing. Realised they were not after I had carefully followed through with my original plan and got one of the cups out by shrinking it with tig welder.
That took about two hours by the time I was set up and doing it. As opposed to the 5 mins required to just bang the seals out and then bang out the
cups in the opposite direction ... :no: