the spacer will slide over to the side ...there's room in the housing
for that.
I get a long thin punch in there I think..to drive out the outer race
with rollers.

never had a problem.

On 9/29/2012 6:04 PM, Gene P wrote:
> I have the bearing housing on the bench, looking to disassemble to clean
> and repack.  Bentley 42.4-5 says "remove outer bearing inner race and then
> spacer".  Inner race slides out, but spacer does not.  I have it cleaned up
> an it looks clearly like the spacer is too wide (diameter) to slide through
> that outer bearing.  And of course, absolutely too wide to clear inner
> bearing.  Since you can't get a drift in to knock out either bearing with
> the spacer there, how does it come apart?
>
> This seems like a dumb question but I just don't see it.  What am I missing?
>
> Thanks for any help...
>