RC10 Classic Drive Gear/Cups Bearings
 

I have just got hold of an original A stamped RC10 Gold tub. It came with the original bronze bushes. I bought an Avid bearing set for it and I'm having problems with drive output bearings in the drive cups.

Is there a trick to inserting these? They're really tight fit and I don't want to wreck the new bearings putting them in.

Thought about heating them up in a cup of boiling water then trying to insert the bearings.

Any help greatly appreciated....

Put them in the freezer for 15 min and try that

Thanks peakey. I'll have a go and see what happens.

Bearings in the freezer and Drive cups in boiling water eventually gave just enough to get them in. I think a safe description of the tolerances would be FT.

Well at least you got them in :thumbsup:

Lol should be the other way around heat to bearings and cold to drive cups as you want the bearing to expand and the drive cup to contract:D

As I understand he was having trouble getting the bearings inserted in the plastic hubs, and didn't want to force these in.

I thought they were internal ones not external :blush::confused:

Peakey is correct. To clarify, this was the pushing the bearings into the Gearbox internal outdrives. I therefore needed the cups to expand and the bearing to contract to insert the bearings in the cups.

Sorry my bad :blush:

:p:p