Originally Posted by CMAW

All good points of course, though the Loctite comes as a surprise to me (I had 2 loose bearings in my spares/toolkit on my last tour, thinking I could somehow 'drop them in' if needed). I'm going to the LBS later today and buy some new bearing assemblies, do the inevitable. I did order a Wheels Mfr extractor last week and when that comes in I'll give replacing a try anyway, see how that goes.