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Ive heated the steering bearing bottom race in the oven, the surface of the race turned blue?! Should i be worried? i could clean the blueish of with some paper after it was fitted on the steering stem, may it be damaged? i were not over 180c but it smelled alot in the kitchen but could it have been some oil/grease on the race that were "melted" at the procedure? by the way im using new ball steering bearings.
and i put the race in the oven before i started it. but i took it out as soon as i smelled something that was not familiar
Its ball bearings for an sr500, talked to an engineer at work Who says it was just oxidation probably and does not harm, u need to stay at 170celsius(hardened Steel) for a certain time to loose its hardened effect
No if u read again, i wads not over 180, and the race were in the oven from 0 degrees and i took it out before the oven reqched 180 Celsius and the blueish colour were wiped off with paper aftet it cool downed
Yes i heated only the bearing race and freezed the stem, what im thinking now that is probably was some kind of oil/grease coating that turned blueish, that is there to preveny rust. So i think im good to go
nothing wrong with heating the outer a bit and cooling the inner however it really isnt needed, just bang em on, no need to heat
just make sure they are going on straight,no hanging burs, use a lil lube
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