<< Jerry Hey wrote:
 > > >
 > > > Take a look at these scratches on the rotor bearing.  The photo is not
 > > > that clear, but these marks are not the puzzle joints.  I can feel
 > > > them, but they are too shallow to catch a fingernail on.   This rotor
 > > > also was corroded and I am still trying to get the side seals out.   I
 > > > have not dipped it in parts cleaner yet.   Is this thing a boat anchor?
 > > >       Jerry
 > > >>

Press out the bearing. Put it in the lathe and shine up the overlay with 600
wet or dry
and solvent. Even if some copper shows through, its still just fine. Get all
of the oil off of the rotor with clean solvent. Soak it in muratic
(hydrochloric) acid in a plastic bucket for a few hours. Do this outside with a fan
blowing fumes away from you.
It will eat the iron oxide out of the grooves. Destroy the acid with baking
soda before you remove the rotor from the bucket. Scrub the rotor with baking
soda and warm water. Drive out the frozen side seal pieces with other pieces of
side seal and a small brass hammer.

Press the bearing back in. It looks like the alignment tab has been removed
already, but if not grind it off. It serves no purpose. If the bearing welds to
the crank, that little tab will not even slow it down. If you are worried
about it, Locktite the bearing in the hole, but press it in one continuous
operation.

Lynn E. Hanover

 
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