Can't Get My IMS Bearing Out!

[nuvolari]

Originally Posted by 78F350

I have a '97 and '01 engine that I can pull the bearings on later this week. Not sure which bearing the '01 has and the flywheel is still on, but there's a good chance I can salvage the clip from the '97.

Hey, thanks a lot, I would appreciate it, that would be great! No rush as I'm just getting started putting this engine back together after a year and a half, argh. And I'm still trying to locate a source for a new ring but the suppliers I found are manufacturers so they don't usually stock or sell these rings individually. Still more research to do.

Hey JFP, have you ever had trouble and destroyed the retaining ring when removing a bearing? Just wondering what went wrong. I thought maybe I did something to the ring when using the homemade tools to extract but I don't think the ring was or could be damaged until it's out of the groove and approaching the extraction tool tube and this never happened until I used the LN tool. I did try to center the tube and to minimize the chance of this happening. Also, I figured the beveled edge of the tube and LN design would avoid any binding. Or maybe the ring was damaged when originally installed; that might explain the trouble I had with the homemade tools. Any ideas? (Just curious at this point....)

[JFP in PA]

Originally Posted by nuvolari

Hey, thanks a lot, I would appreciate it, that would be great! No rush as I'm just getting started putting this engine back together after a year and a half, argh. And I'm still trying to locate a source for a new ring but the suppliers I found are manufacturers so they don't usually stock or sell these rings individually. Still more research to do.

Hey JFP, have you ever had trouble and destroyed the retaining ring when removing a bearing? Just wondering what went wrong. I thought maybe I did something to the ring when using the homemade tools to extract but I don't think the ring was or could be damaged until it's out of the groove and approaching the extraction tool tube and this never happened until I used the LN tool. I did try to center the tube and to minimize the chance of this happening. Also, I figured the beveled edge of the tube and LN design would avoid any binding. Or maybe the ring was damaged when originally installed; that might explain the trouble I had with the homemade tools. Any ideas? (Just curious at this point....)

We see the dual row wire retainer deformed when the bearing is not pulled straight, you may have done this before you switched to the LN tool. We have never seen one damaged from the factory, only after someone blew the retrofit and flat-bedded the car to us to finish it. As we never reuse them, they just get tossed.

[nuvolari]

Originally Posted by JFP in PA

We see the dual row wire retainer deformed when the bearing is not pulled straight, you may have done this before you switched to the LN tool. We have never seen one damaged from the factory, only after someone blew the retrofit and flat-bedded the car to us to finish it. As we never reuse them, they just get tossed.

Thanks for that info, makes sense as I was struggling with that first extraction method. Just glad I didn't keep cranking on it as everything else seems ok. It actually damaged the LN tool slightly but that's an easy fix with some light sanding where the tool was damaged.