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MG TD TF 1500 - Wheel bearing removal

I pulled off my RF drum to replace the wheel bearings. Both bearings stayed in the drum. Any ideas how I remove the bearings?

MCC Cavicke

you can get a tool from automotive places that can help you hammer them out (autozone has some to loan free) - but I don't know if they fit.

These are roller bearings and they don't come out like more traditional bearings where the inner race comes out and the outer race stays connected. So don't pull or hammer on the inner race (unless you are planning on replacing anyway).

I recall having to use both heat on the hub and cold on the bearing to get it to settle in correctly.



D Engel

If bearings are going to stick it's normally on the axle shaft, not in the drum. These look well greased...did you try just pulling them out?

You may be able to take a wooden dowel and tap them from the other side to get them out but failing that, take a large washer and grind down two sides so it will fit through the bearing. Take a threaded rod, push it thru the bearing and thru the hole in the washer, put a nut on the opposite end, find something that will go across the back of the drum, drill a hole in it, stick the rod thru it and thread on another nut on. By tightening that nut, pull the bearing out. Once you have the large one out you can then work on the smaller one.

Good luck...easier than it sounds.
Gene Gillam

Slap hammer. This is what I use most of the time. Works very well. Mine has changable heads for large or small bearings, small as in pilot bearings in flywheels, large as wheel bearings. The illistration shows the small head. PJ





Paul S Jennings

The internal spacer will move over to allow you to put a drift into the groove machined into the hub. Gently tap out the inner bearing, remove spacer and then tap out the other. If you fully degrease you will se what I mean. Take note of the orientation of the spacer so it goes in the right way round.
By the way they are ball bearings. SKF 6306 & 6304, the seal is Payen C449 (72x54x8 millimetre
Ray TF 2884
Ray Lee

I've reactivated two threads. One shows a great image of the slot for using a drift to remove the bearings. The other shows the numbers of the sealed bearings. Bud
Bud Krueger

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