Pulled my Stumpy linkage apart today, one of the bearings was VERY dead and just disintegrated as soon as the bolt was off. Outer race is still jammed in. Bummer.
I’m assuming it’s a steel race and ally linkage, so will the age old “spot weld the race, let it cool, it’ll drop out” trick work? Will need to take the uni welder some cookies if so. Or just try it myself with multiple soldering irons, but I doubt somehow that they’ll do the trick…
Any other ideas? Could try a rawl plug if I can find one big enough, and then just try and thump it out? If I got really creative I might even manage to partially reconstruct the bearing to try and use the inner race as a surface for the rawl plug trick.
Operating on a budget of notverymuch and a time limit of cairngormsnextweek. Any ideas appreciated 😆