Please help - Last step on Carrier Bearing

[Daringo]

Okay, changing out my very worn our carrier bearings but for the life of me I have no idea how to get the last piece off so I can slide to old bearing off. Can somebody please help! I have this all apart and need to finish it today. Thanks. Here is a picture:

 

[Daringo]

Okay folks, boy did I get lucky. I was at O'Reilly to rent a gear/bearing puller and some guy in line knew EXACTLY what I was trying to accomplish. Said the gear puller might work (and it did) but that I should also get a large socket to press the two pieces back in (a 1 1/8 deep socket worked great).

First, the nut you must take off before pulling the u-joint yoke is 15/16. Take that off. And for those of you having trouble removing your 12point 12mm bolts, get a breaker bar. Without it, you will not get far.

So pull the yoke off, then pull the carrier bearing off. In my case, I just left the bearing on and put a new rubber cushion around it. You see - the carrier bearing is actually two pieces, the metal bearing and the rubber piece. The rubber piece EASILY comes off - great for pulling the old bearing off or just swapping out the rubber piece. My bearing seemed fine and I did not want to press my luck.

Go rent a gear puller at Kragen / AutoZone / O'Reilly and you will not need a press (and get a large socket to bang the yoke and bearing back on). $35 deposit and it's free the first 24 hours. $5/day after that.

Here are the pictures...

Good luck to anyone else who tries this. This should help!

 

[Daringo]

Oh yea.... MAKE SURE YOU REMEMBER which way that yoke was pointing when you put it back on. Thank goodness I had these pictures to refer to. Very easy to put it back using the wrong angle. Careful.

And I can tell a difference. My rubber bushing was pretty shot and on a scale of 1-10 regarding vibration from a dead stop, it was about a 7 before I changed this part. I would put it at around 3 now. Guess I need a one piece drive shaft to get it perfect! Sounds like a fun project ;-)

 

[dangerranger83]

I was going to say to put a one peice drive shaft on it and be done but from the looks of it thats on your to-do list.