Fixing a Leaky RF-45 Mill Head - Enco

[stevec]

Ed, of course you know that the advantage of using the bearing separator is to pull on the inner race as opposed to pulling on the outer. The other thing is to tighten the separator so that the sharp inner edges will wedge in between the inner race and the shoulder it buts against to start the separation.
But down in the recess of that gear you may not get in there with a store bought separator and to drive forty miles just to find out it won't fit.
A solution might be to make one that you know will fit using socket head capscrews etc.
But, and this is the last but, maybe the price of a new bearing would justify pulling it off the "wrong" way and turfing it would be best.