front wheel strip

[wingnut]

Hi

hope someone can help, I am stripping the cast front wheel of a 3.5 strada for powder coating. I am not sure how to get the speedo drive off the wheel, I have tentatively whacked it a few times with a rubber mallet to no avail, as for the bearings I do not seem able to get a purchase on them with a drift, is there a special technique? in the past I have just set to with a hammer and drift and had them straight out.

Thanks

Mark

[wingnut]

Sorted

They heat shrink the speedo drive on to the wheel at birth, it is therefore more hassle than it is worth to remove, the bearings required more brute force than I had been applying (sorted, I am from yorkshire so I was born with the the correct level of ignorance).

Apparently when the speedo drive is attached to the wheel it can nip up the housing around the bearing, this combined with 25 odd years of corrosion can make it very hard to remove the bearing from its housing, I have been lucky, my bearing came out reletively hassle free.

Thanks to NLM for free (ish, ordering bits) good advise.

Thanks

Mark

[buzby]

Well done! My cast wheels are scruffy ,the black coating is peeling off in places and I was thinking of having them powder coated.Your post has encouraged me to make a start. Cheers ,Dave.

[SupermotoDave]

When you remove the front wheel bearings, you will find that the speedo drive was shrunk on after the bearings were put in ( I think).
This can mean that when the bearing is pushed out it expands the alloy of the wheel, and in some cases this can split the speedo drive pinion which will not expand with it.
Happened to me.

David

[hombre]

Hi,
I had the same problem on my Camel. I used a puller (if that's the correct English :-/) and it wouldn't come off, later I heated it and with the puller it came off eventually. It had the bearing still in there.
Hope it works