Re: [Amc-list] axle pulling time ...was Droning American

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I saw it mentioned on transmission page.
They discovered it due to the lack of notch to allow a puller to get behind the bearing race in a T-5's front bearing retainer. I think it does work due to the contraction of  the metal as it cools. Not sure, but it works! 

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Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5

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From: "Swygert, Francis G MSgt 436 CES/CECM" <Francis.Swygert3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, March 12, 2007 08:57 AM
> From: Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Slickest trick I've ever seen for bearing races.
> Take a mig welder and lay a bead around the center of the race, the heat
> causes 
> it to contract and it fall out!!!...
> You have to see it to believe it!
> --------------------------------
> 
> Since it's you I believe it, though it would seem at first that the heat
> would cause it to expand. I suppose it does at first, then the cooling
> weld "draws" the metal in, causing it to shrink. I'll have to remember
> this trick!! 
> 
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