Brilliant!! I was about to head in with an angle grinder to cut what I could reach.... But I'll try your way first!! Thank you!

It is only obvious and easy when you watch someone who is competent explain how to to it. You did very well thank you. Dan Bentler

Thank you! Thank you! I have been struggling all afternoon to get a seized bearing off, getting no where, but not having tried to dismantle the bearing. Even the bearing shop where I got the new replacement didn't suggest this as a method. Thank you for sharing!

Holy smokes, you have no idea how this video saved my ass in major way. I did this in tiny (I think it is the smallest bearing available) and worked perfectly. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I'm going to try it. The equipment repair company in my area wants to charge me $189 to send a tech just to see if it's something that they can repair.

You just took saved me taking years off my life trying to free a shaft

I learned that little trick many years ago fixing my old truck in the back yard when my options were very few.

You're a lifesaver, saved me a lot of headache on a stuck bearing on a baler shaft. Cheers from SW Nebraska.

Thnaks for this video. I have an old gokart with encapsulated bearings on the rear axle and no way to get them out. Ill try this.

Helped me out big time trying to get a seized bearing off a dishwasher motor shaft with no way to get under it. Immediately ran over to my work bench and had it off in minutes. This will be a $10 fix for a $260 motor your not supposed to repair. Ha! Thanks immensely!

My uncle was a welder and fabricator in Florida for 20 plus years till the farmers and others he worked for were bought out for land development. I guess what always amazes me was how much one group of people could wear out, wreck, and destroy equipment and another group of people could repair, rebuild, and make things almost bullet proof so others could go out and do it again. Love your channel, love your videos, give Dakota a scratch and a pat for me..

I've dealt with a great many stuck bearings and have never thought to dismantle them. As a last resort, we've always cut them, either with a torch or metabo. I specific remember spending a few hours one evening with my work partner crouched under a conveyor drive sprocket trying to cut overhead at a recessed flange bearing with a cut off wheel. We managed to get it, but I wonder if we could have utilized your method. I will remember this tip. Thank you for sharing.

I have been at farm machinery repair quite a while and bearing removal usually involves a blue flame your way is alot safer especially on combines and balers! Thanks for these videos .

Fantastic description and brilliant idea !

Thanks a million times.

Thanks for the advice Matt

very cool trick sir, never have attempted taking one apart before, but looking forward to trying it !

I was thinking, oh yea, I know this trick. I didn't. Great tip.

That could be a game changer. Love it.

Hi Matthew, Thats the way to do it, simple if one know how to do it, all the best.

Great tip, that could prevent the machine catching fire from flaming grease balls dripping after going at it with a torch. Great videos, keep it up!

Good 1 Matt. Great maneuver, when I was a young buck working on old rusty fertilizer equipment the old hot wrench got them apart I'll tell you. Got to where I could wash the race right off the shaft with nary a mark. Laying on your back on a truck bed, hopper full of fertilizer farmer going crazy because it's going to rain. Oh them were the day's.

That's a good one for the mental tool box. Thanks mate!

Matthew, many thanks for a cool video. I hope I don't run into such a problem, but I'm prepared if I do.

Thanks - just the info I needet! Cheers from Denmark

Never thought of doing it that way. Usually always went to the torch it off method. Thanks

Good tip.matt. Did that a few times over the years.

Neat trick. Like you said I never even given that idea a thought

That is a great idea I’m going to try it out. Great video nice to see video from you hope to see more if possible

And when removing inter race , no need to cut completely down to the shaft, get close on two opposite sides take a dull cold chisel one or two good whacks n poof off it comes.

One day I will use this idea thanks!!!

Thanks for the video.

Very Helpful, Thanks.

thanks ! you helped me alot , i will give it a try

Can this method be done with pillow block bearings? Or just generally larger ones with heavy shafts? I’m a weld/fab apprentice and have only encountered bearings that I need to use an angle grinder/hammer to remove, and sometimes use a torch to get a new one on the shaft. I’m a first year so still got a long way to go, any tips would be appreciated! Thanks

Is there anyway you could do a video on each type of flange housing on how to install and when to use each one?

I see 4 tack welds at square plate which will have to be cut anyway to get inner flange out which is inside the square tube plate. Good info on bearing take down.

Great method. Thank You Matt J8m

It's a cool way of getting something done without doing a lot of work. You should do a video on your hydraulic post hole digger. How you made it and how it works.

Enjoyed and learned! Cool trick.

excellent, I have not done that much work with bearings, I know most of the stuff is pretty simple just need to be exposed to it.

Thankyou

interesting and handy.. thanks a ton... cheers.

You always get a thumbs up from me. I think it's suspended like this. Stay cool as you can and a fine way not to demolish something like I do most of the time! GBWYall!

Very good tip for sure! When I have a bearing that is sacrificial and isn't cooperating I prefer the smoke wrench, but you can't always burn one out. I'll remember this technique for sure. Thanks for posting the video, love the content.

I have used this trick several times!

Right about the BIGGER bearings being more fun to destroy, more bearing pieces than finger pieces...lol You just need to carry a set of smaller tools for the smaller ones, dental picks set, smaller drifts, scew drivers, etc... are quite useful for that purpose

Very neat trick!

Nice. Thanks.

Thanks for sharing

Really useful 👍

Very good!

This bearing his an excentric bearing assemply. Did you even try to remove the locking colar (metal ring that's locked by allen key studs and that needs to be rotated about 1/4turn anticlockwise) ?

I'm dealing with a similar situation, but I have a roller bearing that is recessed almost an inch into the case, and 1) the shaft can only come out one end because the bearing at the other end sits in a recess cast into the case, and 2) there is no room inside the case to drive the bearing out from behind. Additionally there is a ring gear on the shaft which engages a gear on a shaft at the bottom of the case, and this makes it impossible to drive the whole assembly out the open end. Short of cutting the shaft in two, I've run out of ideas. Trying to drill through the race sounds like a formidable project.

what do you do if the bearings are like 2:43 or 2:53 ?

I always wondered how they got the balls between the races. Some ball-bearings don't have a cage. I think they have another way to load the balls, like a spot on the races with a depression plus a little tilt action, but forgot the details.

Thank you it was good thing.

Well that's how bearings are assembled.

Title: Dakota removes stuck bearing. Then I remembered he doesn't have thumbs.

I have taken bearings apart like that just screwing around to see how they were put together, but I thought the inner race had to be tipped to get it out. I did not know it would just slide out.

Fuck genius man, Im sitting with this exact damn problem. thank you

My total experience with bearings is bicycle bearings :) so I learned a great deal from this video.

Just think of the hundreds, no thousands, of ball bearings that will be rolling around on workshop floors worldwide as a result of people watching this video and practising it themselves ;-)

That would be easy for me. I can tear up an anvil in a sandbox.

And if all efforts fell break out the BFH and make it submit. :)

In my case the center ring of a bearing is rusted to the axis of a electric motor. There is no space for a puller and using an angle grinder will damage the electric contact ring. I've tried heating the ring so it expands, but so far no results... And sadly your trick doesn't apply to my case...

defying gravity

Remove bearing race from spindle

whiskey glasses

Get the gas out. Pop the seal,Melt the cage. Blow out the balls and cut the inner race off the shaft, They are 2 different metals and can be cut without gouging.

Take. A. Torch

Doesn't help at all I have a stuck needle bearing type in my swingarm for the pivot pin that runs thru the motor as well

Or you could of broke the lock collar loose and beat it out

Give me 2 minutes and an oxy acetylene torch.

I have been at farm machinery repair quite a while and bearing removal usually involves a blue flame your way is alot safer especially on combines and balers! Thanks for these videos