Tweaked bellend axle tube

Kiwi1966 · Posted: Sun May 24, 2015 4:13 am Post subject: Tweaked bellend axle tube

Hi thoughts on this please. Replacing the 4 bearings each side in a big nut RGB box that is going to replace a small nut box in my 57. Noticed that the axle on one side (other side tube/bell perfect) must have been dropped at some stage and it has tweaked the bell where it is welded to the axle tube. Has anybody had a go at straightening these. I was thinking of clamping bell down to bench and applying heat and try and tweak it back straight. Is this worth a go who do I start hunting for another(not that easy to find over here)
Cheers Ross

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Clara · Samba Member Joined: June 14, 2003 Posts: 12401

I would replace that with a spare. Might as well try to bend it straight. I would not try to assemble and use that as is. I'd think there would be binding and that it would stress the upper RG bearings. You know how they get the gaskets to set the in/ out wiggle on those? There should be slight friction at the plastic daisy aka Kaiser sphere that the bell cups, but no binding.

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gears · Posted: Sun May 24, 2015 12:12 pm Post subject:

I'd say that's unusable & unrepairable. You can probably shorten & notch a Type I tube as a replacement. (Kiwi ingenuity rocks.)
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pig-pen · Posted: Sun May 24, 2015 1:14 pm Post subject:

Are they always called 'bellends' ? That means something very different here!
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Kiwi1966 · Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 6:12 am Post subject:

Hi
Thanks for your reply guys. Pulled the tube off the gearbox today and it is bent/stretched worst than the photos show. I think I will be pissing in to the wind to get it straight so I would like to try and press the old tube out of the rgb case and pick up a good bug tube and cut it to lenght.Having never knocked out the retaining pin that pins the rgb case before from what I read the pin is tapered and must be tapped out from the bottom after warming casting,would this be correct
Thanks Ross

joe56vw · Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 12:15 pm Post subject:

looks like someone tried to "fix" it before and welded it on crooked you could grind the weld off and have it weld back straight again
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Kiwi1966 · Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 1:18 pm Post subject:

I was also thinking along the same lines joe56vw . but when I looked closer at the bell its a combination of bent on one side and stretched on the other. The daisy had no evidence of being graunched up so I would say this has happened during its removal or after being removed from the donor bus. I will try and first get the old tube out of rgb and replace with a shortened bug tube, if that does not work out I will look at cutting the bell off midway under the axle boot and welding on a new donor


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