Hello from Nova Scotia

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Originally Posted by canuckrider

Welcome aboard from out West in Alberta.

I've read that those steering head bearings can be a b1tch to get out. Here's a good thread on it, plus if you search you can find quite a few others.

http://www.vulcanbagger.com/forums/s...hlight=bearing

Yeah I was looking at it again yesterday and not only is race pretty near flush with the seat, the whole thing is inset from the main body of the cylinder making it even worse. I've read a bunch of threads on this, but I hadn't seen this one. I might give that a go. Thanks

Originally Posted by MrMikey

I've seen a technique where you take a piece of pipe that will just fit thru the stem, cut four equally spaced slices down along the length of the pipe 3"± long or so.
Open the pipe up so it will expand to the inside of the neck snug all around so when you put it in the neck, it will expand evenly against the small lip of the race.....Mike

Yeah that way sounded promising at first, but there isn't even a small lip on one side of mine, it seems. One side feels very nearly flush, and the other side feels like very very little. I wonder how they make the tool flare out like that, though.

Thanks again for the welcome everyone. This is my help thread if anyone is able to help, that'd be great.

[MrMikey]

I've got the tig gear if you can get it here......Mike

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Hey that's great, thank you. I don't know if I could get it anywhere though. I would have to take the engine out since I don't have any sort of hoists or means of getting it into the trailer as it sits. Then again I'm probably 80% of the way there at this point. Can't be that much more to get it out.

I am looking for someone to TIG weld the V&H rear header for me, though. Email me on my profile there if you wanna talk about it.