Nice vid, a couple tips from my experience: You can buy bike specific bearing puller/press combo off eBay for around $25 bucks. They work very well. If replacing bearings in winter, place your linkage somewhere warm like on top of an oven or next to a sunny window for a couple hours and place your new bearings in the freezer. This will make replacing your bearings 100% easier.

nice video. The SC links are great because you can just place them in a vice with soft grips, get the punch out and no harm done unlike on some carbon link\stay designs. I like pullers too, but you can easily punch out the bearings in the links with a regular punch too, the inner sleeves can be pushed aside slightly and that gives you enough surface to use a punch. The puller set you have is great. but overkill for most people if they only have one bike. Although it is really cheap. Santa Cruz sells their own extractors for their bearings. pretty neat and easy to use, but expensive. If you replace the bearings once a year it is an easy job. However I have seen some very neglected bikes before, sometimes even with the puller the inner race comes out with all the ball bearings but the outer race gets stuck, so if in doubt just use a heat gun, get the area on the link nice and hot and you will be able punch it out or wedge the edge of a slightly larger size puller in the outer race. Also when you are installing the new bearings, the method you are using is nice and straight forward however if you want maybe a bit better alignment you can simply use the old bearings as guides for the new ones. I prefer clamping the link in a vice for both removal and installation, an M8/M10 threaded rod with 2 nuts on either side (flanged, flat) and like you did, with the bearings guides (old bearings or socket like in the video) and a couple of washer. this way you can use 2 wrenches and you can pay attention to alignment a bit better. SC bike are my favourite bikes to work on. Simple but reliable design unlike some others out there. (my mate who races got a yeti 4 months ago. he cracked it twice already and he also warrantied the infinity link)

amzn.to/3kL9NI4 It looks like the seller I ordered from is no longer offering, but the above looks to have the correct kit. The collets (black pieces that go into the bearings) that I used were the 15mm diameter and 10mm diameter (they are listed as 15-17mm and 10-12mm in the kit). If you have a different bike, just be sure the collets fit the inner diameter of your bearings.

I can’t find that bearing press anywhere. Anyone have a link for a cheap one that is not a whole kit?

Great video👍🏻 Anyone know what number is all bearing for hightower 2020 alloy model?

Good day, I am looking at a similar tool for my sc. Can you tell me what size the puller was that you used?

Hi, this is James from Rocky knob. I checked out your channel and I think it is cool, I subbed and also keep up the hard work on your channel. I already have a YT channel but I might make a MTB channel too and thanks for talking to me. Good luck, James

Great vid. Not sure if this applies to your frame, I have a Nomad 3 -- Did you ever have a gap form between the lower linkage and the rear triangle, on the drive side of the bike? When I screw in the pivot axel bolt into the rear triangle, the tab the bolt screws into is pushed away from the linkage - leaving a 1-2 mm gap. It super tight/flush on the non-drive / bolt insertion side. If so, any solutions to fixing it? Thanks!

www.harborfreight.com/disc-brake-pad-piston-compressor-63701.html. So apparently a disc brake caliper compressor the the “bearing press” , but here it is!

Thanks for the video dude!

how do i remove the upper link for a bronson v3 ????

Maybe a stupid question but do you wait for these things to go bad or is there a rule of thumb in terms of maintenance schedule for the bearings?

great video dr.j - quick question, the spacers that sit inside the link, do they literally just float in the centre? grease them up and put it in the centre so it just sort of floats unti you have both bearings pressed in place?

Nice! This guy has way too less followers. Great content!

Dont forget to pop off seals and pak new bearings.

Hey all I am coming from a rigid bike, I am thinking on getting a high-tower, and by watching this makes me think? How often do you have to have this done with these Full suspension bikes? If I ride 17hrs a month how often do you worry about this type of thing?

Do you have the link? I searched it and don’t know which one to choose.