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Brian, as you may know I'm replacing these bearings at the moment and the needle roller bearing has been grief. What are your prices? are these Guzzi prices? they are mad! The needle roller bearing is £2 (I just bought another new one today, just in case). £2 must only be a few dollars? The most expensive part is the inner ring. I got one without the drilled hole, but either way they are the same price: £7. When you say 'inner bearing, you seem to mean that plain inner ring. If you mean one of the ball race inner bearings, they're only £8 anyway. These are SKF, as original. You can't mean $70 for the plain steel ring, can you?

In QuickTime menu > Edit then there is a selection of Enable Tracks, Extract Tracks, Delete Tracks. This is QT 6.5.2 but as far as I remember over recent years all versions have had this feature HOWEVER it may just be with QT Pro. If you are using standard QT player and haven't enabled Pro for the additional editing features then the tracks may not show. For example, the first video on cd2 is 'e2-1.mov'. It has 1 video track and 5 audio tracks, which can all be switched off/on or deleted.

Brilliant Carl. As it's set-up for for the Wintel world, I wanted to ask if anyone could do an index, but I didn't dare. I also found that I have to extract/disable audio tracks as some videos play in 5 languages at once.

You keep your sensitive member out of this forum.

At that point you need to do the diaster adjusment. It's a sensitive adjustment, but critical. Done yours yet JR?

Good thinking

So you don't like 'pretty'. Wait till you see this film I'm writing the book now.

'Cos, being Italian, they're made by ARTISTS – just don't ask what sort of artists

Well, that was a real dog's dinner. Lesson 1: I wish that I had just left the thing in and re-greased it. I knocked out some of the needles but still couldn't get the bearing body to shift. All that happened was that the outside lip bent out. So I knocked out the big bearing on the other side, thinking that it would then be easy to knock the roller bearing out from behind. Took out the long spacer and hammered like crazy at the washer in behind the needle roller, trying to push the lot out. No movement at all. The only thing that happened was the washer got cupped. I was hitting so hard that I was worried about damaging the whole drive casing. Lesson 2: now I know that the washer doesn't come out. It's captive in the housing. I'll have to settle for now having a mashed washer in there for good. I eventually got the bearing body out by chipping, cutting, breaking. Really messy and it took a long time. I put in a new bearing and a new inner sleeve, one without the little hole in it this time. The sleeve doesn't rotate easily. I hope that I haven't damaged the new needle roller when putting it in. I suppose that I'll have to get a new big bearing too, rather than put the other one back. All in all, not a great success. I'd like to hear how others get this bearing out – and I'm sure Nogbad would too.

I'm trying to get that bearing out now – it's torture. Where's BigJ and his big hammer when you need him? No doubt it will be easier the second time. Edit: I kept telling myself I should look to see what method BJ used, but of course I just kept working away with little result. I've looked back at his post now, so will try the bent punch that I should have tried at first. I must say that the bearing really does seem tight though and not as free as BJ found.

Rossi has passed Biaggi.... Gibernau down – out front and caught in the wet... so Barros now 7 seconds in front, Biaggi sticking with Rossi...

Round 2 They're off. Gibernau away and Rossi in 4th...

"What does the bearing spacer you have measure? KB " You're right KB. It measures 1mm too short. I don't have such a thing as a 1mm thick washer (that's also wide enough). So I have cut one from a 1mm steel sheet. I've just put the bearing in. Everything is a tight fit now between the bearings. Well done with the advice. Hopefully the bearing will last more than a thousand miles or so, this time. Needle roller next, but I've had to come as Moto GP just about to start. There they go – Gibernau is away........

Wellllll?

Real motorcyclists don't read books anyway... (only joking Bad Goosey)...they watch... ...this stuff

Grrrr...Mr. Bad So you think that riding motorbikes should only be done (and can only be appreciated by) Ogri, Conan the Barbarian and Benny from Crossroads? and you ride an ITALIAN motorbike!

This is following on from the other rear bearing thread. My spacer is very fractionally shorter than the depth of the hub. There is a clear gap between the end of the spacer and a straight edge placed across the bearing face of the hub, but it's only paper thin. With a feeler guage it is around .2mm Of course I don't know what exactly the gap would be with the bearing in, but it seems like any washer is going to be too thick and push the bearing out a bit.

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'this perfect, clean greasy bearing' so you have already bought a new one then?

:!: Is that what they mean when they say that an engine is bulletproof?

Shall we lay bets?

Don't worry, Guzzi has made an umbrella. Err.. there seems to be a small fault... Well, it's an improvement on the 'pre-Aprillia' model

Hi Paul, no, I meant the inside ring of the drive side bearing, leaving only the outside ring of that bearing in the hub. Then you are correct – a big screwdriver in there and knock out the other (brake side) bearing, then turn around and drive out that first inner bearing ring. Hope that makes sense. It'll be so easy next time!

The job's a goodun. Well done. V.11 Forum triumphs again. It was easy enough in the end. The trouble was that I started by taking the bearing apart, removing the inner ring. So there was nothing left to hammer against and I tried things such as you suggest BJ. Following KB's advice, (owe you ) I went in from the other end and knocked out the 'good' bearing by catching the edge of the inner ring. It knocks out easy enough. As for the spacer: it is only fractionally short. The hub space is 112.5 mm; the spacer is 112.25; as best as I can measure them.

Hi J The problem is that I can't get at the back side of it.