Bearing Puller / Press Kits

I opted for a mixture of RRP bearing press/puller kits, a couple of cheap expanding pullers off ebay for the blind stuff, and a couple of well-sized sockets. The RRP stuff is lovely to use.

I bought one of their expanding pullers for the double set of bearings on the chain-stay my Spesh. It failed becasue the expansion part of the tool doesn't grip the inner surface of the bearing well enough to remove it, you end up repeatedly hitting the puller uselessly out of the bearing, In the end the bike went to the shop instead.

For all the other bearings on mine, I use the Rapid Racer set

Same set up as martinhutch. The RRP kit does most of the work and is easy to use.

I bought one of their expanding pullers for the double set of bearings on the chain-stay my Spesh. It failed becasue the expansion part of the tool doesn’t grip the inner surface of the bearing well enough to remove it,

I looked at the link and that's exactly what I thought about the pullers that I saw.  I don't have a set from them but I had used one before that looked very similar and I just couldn't get it to work as it didn't grip well enough.

I have the RRP tool and it’s a nice piece of kit

used the blind pullers for some bearings on my Orbea ebike

the bearing stuck to one of the pullers and the guys offered to send me a new one FOC

The other thing that is really useful is a decent pin punch set, if you don't have one.

I haven't used these but they look decent
https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/braeviewengineering

Some of their tools I found good, but had the same trouble as @nickc on some of my Orbea Rise bearings - didn't get enough of a grip on the bearing.

I'd bought one of these £25 bearing tool sets from Ebay a year or two earlier and that easily removed the ones the BearingPro set couldn't (the expanding parts have a small lip that gets behind the inner race so better grip).
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394573524427?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=LiTtQNRJRAa&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=fz0qwEikRN2&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

The bearing pro presses are good value and easy to use. Also the wind out type extractor, but the expanding type are not so good.

I’d bought one of these £25 bearing tool sets from Ebay a year or two earlier and that easily removed the ones the BearingPro set couldn’t (the expanding parts have a small lip that gets behind the inner race so better grip).

It's a Rise I'm buying it for (and a Bird Aether).

So maybe get the puller / slide hammer set from your link and get the Bearing Pro press?

The RRP looks good too - I'll have to price up and check all the adapters I'd need.

Send him an email, he sorted me out with a  mixed set to suit the various styles needs to replace the bearings on my bike. As luck would have it, my main pivot bearings are also the same as the DT350 hub bearings so that job was made simple too.

Send him an email, he sorted me out with a  mixed set to suit the various styles needs to replace the bearings on my bike. As luck would have it, my main pivot bearings are also the same as the DT350 hub bearings so that job was made simple too.

Yeah I have, and he has helpfully told me what to order 🙂

I've got the slide/puller above and it works really well. As for presses I bought a set off ebay, but use them with a threadded bar, washers and nuts. Cheap, and works perfectly as the set of presses come in just about every size needed on a bike.

as others have said, i use the slide hammer that's linked above, love it for ease of use, and that it can also be used for other things as well if you bodge attachments to the hammer part, also have the RRP kits, they're expensive for what they are, they work well, but are proper bike tart tools, the ones you list will do a decent job as well.

Just remember though, if you have a bike or part with double row bearings, don't hack it out if there's a recess or lip in there, pretty much the only tip i give when talking about bearing pullers 😂

I did the pivot bearings in my Orange Five for the first time myself last week and used a borrowed RRP kit. Can confirm it was really lovely to use and made the whole process pretty simple (aside from the stuck pivot bolt!).

Bsc tools every time

has anyone used the RRP tools for removing bearings from the Santa cruz links? as there is no frame bearings at all, wonder if the tool and bits are too big to fit through the diameters of the links?

would love to get one with the correct tool bits but dont want to waste money if its not going to work for all of the bearings in the link?

has anyone used the RRP tools for removing bearings from the Santa cruz links? as there is no frame bearings at all, wonder if the tool and bits are too big to fit through the diameters of the links?

would love to get one with the correct tool bits but dont want to waste money if its not going to work for all of the bearings in the link?

From a current generation Santa Cruz?  You just need a decent drift set and tap them out from the opposite side.

I also have one of these (about £40 with the postage, which I guess is high to avoid fees or something).  Decent quality, loads of sizes and works fine (done both SC frame bearings and wheel bearings with it so far - you need to use some of the kit as 'spacers' when pressing into the parts of the upper link that attach to the top tube).

Remember to put the component in boiling water for awhile - especially if the bearing is in aluminium. The expansion will have the bearing dropping out.

yep current gen SC - cool is there a link??

i assume its one of those generic blue kits on ebay/chinese? so that does the full job of installing them all? i liked the idea of the RRP as it would remove them too, assume this kit only installs?

@oscillatewildly. Not the RRP kit but feedback on the BearingProtools kit that I used on my Tallboy. The 6900 extractor needs a punch to knock it through the lower link. Unfortunately it knocked out the inner race and the bearings but left the inner race behind so I then had to use an outer race extractor to knock those out seperately.

I used their 6900 windout puller on the smaller bearings in the upper link and they came out without any issues.

Their extractor also worked fine on the larger bearings in the upper link. Their presses worked perfectly.

Ebay bearing press

Sorry, forgot to copy first time.  Yes, it just installs and the RRP sets are nice and all that, but for £40 the uses are wide ranging and it's paid for itself in one bearing change.

Drift wise, I just bought a generic set from Amazon.

I'm also going to get one of those drift hammer kits at some point but haven't needed it yet.

Cool thanks bud - thats great if that kit installs all of them, is much cheaper as you say - ill have a look at getting it and the drift set - should be a fairly easy job and much less daunting than doing it directly on the frame too

Ebay bearing press

It does the flower-drum, the column foot, and the middle axle?! Sweet! 😁

I bought the BearingProTools kit for my Rise. They do a specific kit that covers all the sizes and works out cheaper than buying them individually.

I had a couple of incidents of the extractor flying across the garage while the bearing stayed put but a bit more tightening on the second go got them all out.

It worries me a little bit having to tighten them up 'that' much. I wonder how long they'll last but it did the job.

The wind out type extractors wont work too well one the seatstay bearings as there isn't a flat surface for the extractor to sit on.

Also, when you do the NDS rear axle bearing... There's a circlip in the frame...

Removing the circlip first makes it much easier to get the bearing out. Ahem, so I hear...

Just to update... I've ordered 2 of the expanding pullers from Bearing Pro Tools for the ones that I know need it and one of the eBay press kits with the blue anodised bits. A couple of reviews seem to say that the press itself isn't great but if it causes an issue I'll just use a bit of threaded bar. I think even £40 for the kit is cheaper than buying the drifts separately that I need from anywhere else.