The original rear wheel ball bearings weren't of the highest quality and within 10000km they're toast. So I decided to replace them and bought a set of All Balls wheel bearings.
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| Honda CB500K1 rear wheel |
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| Honda CB500K1 rear wheel bearing All Balls |
The hardest part was gonna be removing the rear wheel bearing retainer. It has 4 holes in which you put the pins of a special expensive tool. I wish I had one but no..
First I tried to hammer it carefully loose with a driver but it didn't move at all. Hmm, time for a DIY tool..
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| Honda CB500K1 rear wheel retaining plate |
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| Honda CB500K1 rear wheel old sprocket |
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| Honda CB500K1 rear wheel bearing retainer |
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| Rear wheel retainer after some cleaning |
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| Rear wheel bearing retainer and orange old bearing |
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| Rear wheel bearing retainer |
I took a piece of steel and drilled 2 holes in it at the same distance as the holes in the bearing retainer, put some bolts in it and secured them with nuts. The end of the bolts should fit into the retainer holes.
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| Honda CB500K1 DIY rear wheel bearing retainer tool |
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| DIY rear wheel bearing retainer tool |
After heating the retainer/hub and some hammering on the DIY tool the bearing retainer finally came loose. Remember the bearing retainer on the Honda CB500K1 is reverse threaded. There's also an arrow engraved to indicate this.
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| Reverse threaded rear wheel bearing retainer, see arrow |
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| Finally.. |
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| Close up... |
Very often the thread is a bit damaged / crossthreaded but as long as it isn't too bad you can fix this with a tap of the right size. My tap and die set came with a handy thread measuring tool and in my case it was 1.0 metric thread. The trick is to slowly roll the right tap trough the damaged threads and most of the time they will get fixed.
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| Fixing cross threaded rear wheel bearing retainer |
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| Close up |
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| Measuring the thread |
Now I had to remove the two bearings. This can be tricky beacause they're on both sides of the hub which makes it a bit harder to hammer 'em out with a punch. After heating the hub and bearings and some fiddly hammering the bearings still wouldn't move at all. I applied more heat but still no movement.I even tried it with a special bearing remover tool, still no luck
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| Wheel bearing remover tool |
Time for another DIY tool. I took a threaded rod and put a big thick washer on one side and on the outside I used a car exhaust mount which was the exact size to put on the hub and big enough to let the bearing through. On the other side of the hub with bearing I used a piece that was just small enough to go through the middle of the bearing but big enough to push on the spacer between the two bearings. Anyway, have a look at the pics...
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| Honda CB500K1 DIY wheel bearing remover tool |
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| applying heat.. |
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| Honda CB500K1 distance collars rear wheel |
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| Honda CB500K1old rear wheel bearings out |
I'd put the new wheel bearings in the freezer 2 days ago so they would shrink a bit and are easier to install. When you install them make sure you only put pressure on the outside of the bearing. I used a big socket and a thick piece of pvc pipe to drive the bearings in.
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| Honda CB500K1old and new rear wheel bearings |
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| Old and new rear wheel bearings |
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| Honda CB500K1 new rear wheel bearings in freezer |
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| Honda CB500K1 new rear wheel bearings installed |
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| New bearing installed |
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| Honda CB500K1 old and new rear wheel bearing seal |
The bike also needed some new tyres and I went for the Dunlop Roadmaster TT100 GP for the front and rear wheel. They have a nice vintage look.
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| Honda CB500K1 Dunlop Roadmaster TT100 GP |
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| Dunlop Roadmaster TT100 GP front wheel |
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| Dunlop Roadmaster TT100 GP vintage profile |
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| Close up.. |
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| Dunlop Roadmaster TT100 GP front wheel |
Before the new tyres were fitted I got rid of the rust on the inside of the rim and painted it with two coats of POR15 to prevent further rusting. It's pretty common to find rust on the inside of the rims..
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| Honda CB500K1 removing the old tyres |
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| Honda CB500K1 removing rust inside rim |
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| Surprise old tape inside rim |
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| Painting inside rims with POR15 |
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| Painting inside rims with POR15 Honda CB500K1 |
With new brake shoes and a fresh rear wheel sprocket fitted as well the rear wheel is all done for now.
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| Honda CB500K1 rear wheel brake panel |
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| Honda CB500K1old and new brake shoes rear wheel |
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| Honda CB500K1 installing new brake shoes rear wheel |
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| New brake shoes rear wheel |
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| Honda CB500K1 new sprocket chain set Tsubaki |
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| Honda CB500K1 new sprocket rear wheel |
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| Honda CB500K1 new 34T sprocket rear wheel |
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| Almost done..:) |
