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So fingers, I got the bearings out of the dog bones last night...used another boys bearing puller (which is like a slide hammer) and they came out, np. If you get your hands on one of those, the bearings come out with ease. Put down a towel and you can do it in your living room instead of that dusty *** community garage!!

Got a whole pile of parts going to pc by this Saturday, hopefully. I'm not sure what to do with the bolts, if I should get the heads/nutsdone black also. I go back and forth since if I do some bolts black, I'll have to do all bolts black. And I think the silver bolts may look good in contrast to the black...not sure what I'm gonna do.

Would you mind PM'ing me and telling me how you got your bolts black?

 

All de-greased and ready to go for pc today.

 

if you guys can get the bearing out do it...i left mine in and they were ruined.

 

Were they ruined by the sandblasting prep process or by the baking/curing process?

I took out all 10 bearings because I was afriad they would be ruined. I think I'll only have to replace one of the needle bearings for $18...not bad. The replacement dust seals will cost about $40-$50 to replace. I'm replacing all the pivot shaft seals.

 

^^^Well one side took a hit during the sandblasting. I dont know what happened to the other side,I took off the the plug and all of the needles were missing.