Dusty, a 20 ton press and a little neverseeze did the job nicely with very little little effort. The difficulty I ran into was the locating the sleeves. There not even as wide as the bearing stacked on the oil seal. The sleeve is 1.341” and the stacked height of the bearing and seal is 1.375”. The rollers are recessed in the bearing about .173”, so that gave me a little bit of room to play with.
To get the location, I ground about .010” off the OD of the old bearing to make it easier to install/remove on my belt sander then reinstalled the bearing retainer washer, bearing, slid in the axle and installed the retainer C-clip. I finished by pulling the axle shaft out into its installed position. No need to install the seal as we are only after the measurements.
I measured the distance between the axle flange (backside of where the wheel bolts on to) and the end of the axle tube where the bearing and seal are installed and then the depth of the machined recess in the axle tube. This and a few calculations gave me the location of where the bearing sits in relation to the axle.
I’ve been documenting every step so if it works I will write up a detailed procedure on how to perform this fix.
Jerry, please send me a picture of the modified tool post on your Craftsman lathe so I could copy your setup.
Last edited by Phak1; 10/17/2020 12:30 PM.
