my money's on female related
Not this time, although it's still only Tuesday. A lot can happen between now and the weekend.
No, I had a dummy spitting episode last night.
I'm having the devils own job trying to get these steering head bearings out without the proper tool.
A mate said he'd borrow a suitable bearing extractor for me but the lad he was going to ask is on holiday.
I borrowed a hydraulic puller from work but it doesn't fit.
I tried making a drift to knock them out but it was no good.
I borrowed a MIG welder to try the beading method but that didn't work either (I just pray I having welded the damn thing in place).
I then tried the method of drilling into the headstock and knocking them out with a punch but that just bent my punch into an 'S' shape. (I only used a small punch as I don't want to drill dirty great holes in it to weaken the structure any further.)
It was at this point my inflated Exped Downmat fell against my drill putting a 2" gash in it.
Around about the same time I lost my temper which could have ended nastily being as I already had a hammer in my hand.
And then herself walks in and bollocks me for hammering and swearing loudly at 1 am which didn't help my mood any.
I then walked away from it all, kicking things and myself and completely failed to go to bed (Gin & Sofa) so I don't know if she's speaking to me or not today. I expect she'll have a pig on.
Anyway, I have now borrowed a slide-hammer and I'll have to see if that works. There's not a lot of room to get any purchase behind these bearings, is there?
Next I'll have to weld a bit of bar across the race and thrash fcuk out of them.
Do you ever start a job and think why did you bother?
Edit: Thanks for all the offers, I'll sort something out.