Thread: Removing spigot bearing

I've always filled the hole with thick grease, and using an old primary shaft or a suitable drift hammered the grease until the spigot bush popped out. I've tried this only on V8's though - so not sure how it would go with the Isuzu

I've also always done ^^^^, but after taking Franks advice (Tank) of useing soggy loo paper the last time, it worked a treat, far better than grease!

Damn and I thought I knew everything before

Yes, like the above say - get a neat piece of dowel - I turn one on a lathe - fill the hole with grease and hammer in the dowel - the bearing pops out. I have done this on a 4BD1 years ago.

Erich.

If your spigot assembly is the same as mine, it's solid at the back (not machined all the way through) so I don't think the grease/loo paper method would work in this case as it can't get 'behind' the assembly to push it out.

Murray

Originally Posted by rijidij

If your spigot assembly is the same as mine, it's solid at the back (not machined all the way through) so I don't think the grease/loo paper method would work in this case as it can't get 'behind' the assembly to push it out.

Murray

You don't need to get at it from behind. You require a solid piece of round bar the same size as the hole in the spigot bearing, Fill the inside of the blind hole and the spigot bearing with grease, insert the round bar into the spigot bearing (must be a close tolerance fit) and hit it with a hammer. The grease forces or hydraulics the spigot bearing out and onto the round bar. I have used a piece of a broom handle as the round bar.

I probably haven't explained this very well - need a picture.

Erich

Originally Posted by Bundalene

You don't need to get at it from behind. You require a solid piece of round bar the same size as the hole in the spigot bearing, Fill the inside of the blind hole and the spigot bearing with grease, insert the round bar into the spigot bearing (must be a close tolerance fit) and hit it with a hammer. The grease forces or hydraulics the spigot bearing out and onto the round bar. I have used a piece of a broom handle as the round bar.

I probably haven't explained this very well - need a picture.

Erich

what rijidij is trying to say is that the spigot bearing isnt open at both ends like a tube, one end is closed like a cup

Oops - I havent come across that? Drill hole through the blind end of the bearing first? The bearing is normally bronze - a quite soft material to drill.

Erich.

Are we talking about the bearing or the nose thing protruding from the bearing?

The spigot bearing in mine is a deep groove ball bearing 6203 2RS. The removal methods discussed above will work for this.

In the pic above I believe I can see the outer race of the deep groove bearing. Unless the hole in the nose piece is blind the lot should come out using these methods.

I don't use a Land Rover gearbox, so I don't have one of those nose pieces.