Front wheel bearings

[Champs]

After picking the Busa up from the dealer afterabout 6 weeks in there for an insurance repair (was backed into on the driveway) I enjoyed a ride up to Hervey Bay. I noticed a bit of a front end vibration on the way back but it wasn't much and seemed to settle. Arrived home and thought I'd better look into it soon.

Rode to work a few days later (190km round trip) and on the way there the vibration came back along with some noise. Had to ride it home and parked up waiting to check into it.

Maybe no surprise to some - collapsed front right wheel bearing. Lucky I didn't do any more than about 300km on it before checking it out!

Now to figure if I source the bearings and use it as an excuse to buy a bearing puller, or drop the wheel in somewhere to have a set put in.

[revhead]

there easy as pie to fit ,i bought my new front bearings from a bearing centre timkin ,set me back about $30 including the courier ,i just used a long solid piece of steel round 12 mil to be exact ,a good hammer a few taps out they came,to refit i linished down one of the old bearings ,to hit instead of the new bearing , and tapped them back in !

[Champs]

Good point Revhead. Easy to get to the off side of the bearing to knock it out and going in is the easy bit. I like the old bearing idea. Sounds like the solution to me.

[revhead]

i linished it on my bench linisher took about 1 mil off the old outter face cleaned it and there it is ready to get hammered

[BikerBoy]

Recently went through a front a rear bearing replace. Rear was shitting bearings down the freeway at 300.....oops. and front got so damn loose under heavy breaking.....it was a looooot of fun....maybe a little dangerous....but yeah it was fun. I knew the rear was bad, but the fronts seemed fine...till they fell apart getting a tyre changed.....and you'd think Suzuki keep bearings in stock....nope, had to borrow an M109 to ride home and get my spare sets of bearings.......and lucky I had spares, 'cause I HATE riding cruisers!!!

[Champs]

Now I've just got to figure how to remove the remaining inner race from one side when you can't tap it out from behind. Might just have to go all out and get an inner bearing pulled set.

[revhead]

i just pushed the inner spacer to the side on mine and tap tap tap,

[Pa King]

Champs give me a PM and include your phone number .
You might be able to drop the wheel in here at my house on your way home from work. I'll get the race out and I might be able to help with sourcing the bearings too. Seals might be a different matter.
I take it your still working in Brisbane.

[Champs]

That works when the bearing is intact Revhead, but when collapsed I have only the outer race to play with and you can't get to it from the other side. A bit of a bugger!

Thanks Russell for the offer - I have consulted the Google Gods and found many accounts suggesting that if you weld a bead around the inside of the race it contracts when cooling sufficient to fall out (or close to it). I have a little MIG at home so I will give that a shot and see how it works out.

I have sourced the bearings from a local supplier. The bearings and seals are standard off the shelf items(not Suzuki specials thankfully). 6205 2RS (2 seals) or 6205 RS (one seal as original) for the bearings.