Drive shaft center bearing support

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shmoky
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Your car is a: 1980 Spider 2000 Pininfarina
Location: Chetwynd B.C. Canada

Drive shaft center bearing support

Postby shmoky » Sun Feb 12, 2017 5:19 pm

Can't seem to get the bearing off the main shaft. Does it need a puller or a press to get it off? My puller isn't big enuf.

Also after some reading I now realize I should have marked the drive shaft pieces for re-orientation. I failed to do this. How much of a problem am I going to have in the reassembly?

shmoky
Chetwynd, B.C. Canada
1980 Pininfarina Spider 2000
Sold: 1968 Corvette Coupe BB to buy the Spider

Boris61
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Your car is a: 1984 Pininfarina
Location: Indiana

Re: Drive shaft center bearing support

Postby Boris61 » Wed Feb 15, 2017 10:33 pm

I had the same problem removing the bearing. I secured it in a vice and used an angle grinder to carefully cut a lengthwise groove in it that was not quite all the way through the inner race and it popped off with some moderate persuasion from a small ball-peen hammer. The groove allows a little stretching to occur and there is no damage to the shaft. It is messy and smelly when cutting through the rubber. Good luck!


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