Changing torque tube bearings is a time consuming project as we all know. When you have taken tube off your 944, removing saft and bearings is quite easy and fast job to do. With son's project we removed saft & bearings with electric winch. It works quite fast, about 40 seconds, as you can see from the video
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y170/olli951/Video/
If want to rmove saft even faster, about 5 seconds, it can be done with proper tools [
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This is a 1983 944 tube which was sent to us for some overhaul.
As you can see we used very high tech tools to remove saft & bearings....in our case a house, old Subaru, broken 968 tiptronic damper and some rope.
Job well done. Me and my son after the hard 5 second job
Bearings we removed with very slow ghetto-method. Want do it again, have already a new fast working tool for this job as well. If you do it just for your own car this method can be used.
Ready for cleaning process
Mecanically cleaned, needs some glass blastning
Since this is 1983 tube it has old style bearing carriers. You must drill out the rivets to have a possibility to remove bearing from a carrier
Central plastic sleeve is also pressed in, so you need some innovative hightech tools...
In pieces
To be continue
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y170/olli951/Video/
If want to rmove saft even faster, about 5 seconds, it can be done with proper tools [
]This is a 1983 944 tube which was sent to us for some overhaul.
As you can see we used very high tech tools to remove saft & bearings....in our case a house, old Subaru, broken 968 tiptronic damper and some rope.
Job well done. Me and my son after the hard 5 second job
Bearings we removed with very slow ghetto-method. Want do it again, have already a new fast working tool for this job as well. If you do it just for your own car this method can be used.
Ready for cleaning process
Mecanically cleaned, needs some glass blastning
Since this is 1983 tube it has old style bearing carriers. You must drill out the rivets to have a possibility to remove bearing from a carrier
Central plastic sleeve is also pressed in, so you need some innovative hightech tools...
In pieces
To be continue
