Help needed with BB on my 66 Schwinn Varsity
06-14-11, 01:25 PM
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Help needed with BB on my 66 Schwinn Varsity
So i picked up two Varsities recently for my girlfriend and I one a 66 and the other a 67. I've started restoring the '66 since it was the one that was worse off and ran into an issue. After disassembling the BB one of the cages appears to be missing 2 ball bearings (or they may have fallen out and rolled away during disassembley). My question is how do you take the other bearings out of the cages and replace them. I figured i'd aske before i start prying things apart to get at the bearings. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
06-14-11, 01:30 PM
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Welcome to the forums. if they are in retainers, althought bigger, like these they should just pop out from between the little hooks towards the center of the retainer
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06-14-11, 01:33 PM
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Yeah they do look like that. There are 9 of the 5/16" in each retainer. So its really just as easy as pushing down on the bearing towards the center and they'll pop out?
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Yeah, its that easy. just do it over a towel so they don't all roll away.
You can clean em off and reuse em if they don't look like hell.
You can clean em off and reuse em if they don't look like hell.
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Thank you both! Just tried it and it worked. Actually had tried it earlier but it took a bt more force than i was willing to apply when i didnt know if it was the proper way. Unfortunately i do have to do some replacing seeing as how one of the retainers is missing two bearings. Any ideas of where to get bearings cheap? LBS doesnt have my size and otherwise i'll have to order these:
https://www.amazon.com/Pyramid-Bicycl...030963&sr=1-27
and am not sure if thats too much for a bag of bearings.
https://www.amazon.com/Pyramid-Bicycl...030963&sr=1-27
and am not sure if thats too much for a bag of bearings.
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Loose screws a bag of 144 for $3.60
https://www.loosescrews.com/index.cgi...d=720581828329
https://www.loosescrews.com/index.cgi...d=720581828329
