Kind of screwed up today

so hypothetically, if someone, say myself, drove their steering bearing onto their lower triple tree without, say, putting the grease seal on first, how would one go about removing afore-mentioned bearing without destroying it? Hypothetically, of course. I would never knowingly screw something so basic up. Not me.

Or should I just go ahead and order a new set?

bearing puller

I'll see if I can scare one up tomorrow. Thanks for the quick reply!

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if

big "if" there,
you are living right.

you can sometime work it back off with a blunt chisel.

i'd say 50/50 chance of success.

leon

If one were to use a hypothetical punch, with the end tapered down to a knife edge, and hammered between the bearing race and the steering shoulder - and do this repeatedly all around the circumference of the bearing - then one might hypothetically just levitate the bearing off the shoulder. Then one could hypothetically inspect the bearing race to be sure it is not nicked or damaged. Also do a hypothetical inspection of the steering shoulder and dress any nicks with a hypothetical file. One just might get hypothetically lucky.