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My post was very brief but not miss-guided. I may have given the wrong impression about the use of the hammer to drive in the front bearing.......don't hammer directly on the bearing race as chicagomike points out. Use an installer "spacer", disc , ring, socket, or pad that is of the correct...

That is the guy that uses the expanding bearing puller with a slide hammer, right? That tool , as I've seen someone else say I think on this forum, is for pulling bearings out of blind holes, not for installation. By using it to install the front bearing, stress is being placed on the balls and...

Thanks, I'll reassemble with the original parts as they seem fine. New bearings , though.

I am replacing front and rear motor bearings on my Kirby CLassic III and not sure what to do with the felt front seal sent to me with the bearings. I found in my vacuum a thin plastic ring that must be a dust shield held in by a metal retainer that is in the bearing housing under the bearing...

Because of what I have read here, I washed the dump-style bags of my two Kirbys. What a job. Because I maintain my own washing machine also , I did not elect to wash them there. It's warm enough here in AZ to wash outside so I did so with Tide in a 5 gal. bucket and am satisfied with how...