After carefully heating up the bore (I didn`t want to fry the RMS behind the flywheel with the heat gun) and freezing the bearing it went in with not too much hassle:
I LOVE using heat when installing bearings and press fittings. I started using heat to the extreem to press in ball joints at work last year. I used to just use a ball joint press, but now I just cherry red the spindle and pop the joint in by hand. Then cool the crap out of the joint asap (yes I have melted the plastic bushings in the spherical joint once). It makes for a PERFECT press fit.
I LOVE using heat when installing bearings and press fittings. I started using heat to the extreem to press in ball joints at work last year. I used to just use a ball joint press, but now I just cherry red the spindle and pop the joint in by hand. Then cool the crap out of the joint asap (yes I have melted the plastic bushings in the spherical joint once). It makes for a PERFECT press fit.
Yeah, heat/cooling is a gentle way of assembling parts. When I work on motorcycle engines I just heat up the cases in the oven and just drop the cold bearings in the bores and they slide right in. The less force the better
Accessories are coming together. I spent some time on sorting out the routing of all the cables, wires and hoses. The pictures I took two years ago were very very helpful, much more useful than the notes I made and I don`t remember what I meant with them
Order in the disorder.
New gaskets, O-rings, plugs, thermostat, etc. Several rounds from Pelican since I always forget about something. At least now I have several wine vouchers as well...
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