My Proto Gripper have a HHHUUUGGGEEE Problem

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Tanner!

Steel Member
My front one rides great, back one, not so much. Here are some questions i have and the story.

Ok, so i put in the bearings using the bolt and i did it perfectly. wheel barely spins. i ride it for like 3-4 weeks, and decide to take it off, and i try to put the axle in and it wont go in. i mean my dad and i have tried everything. we cant get the bearings out either, so:

-Where can I use a bearing remover? And I'm not gonna buy one.
-Can I use the warranty on this? Because the bearings bore was too small. That was the problem that started this whole thing.

-I'll buy a new wheel if i cant get this to work, but I don't wanna have to do that.

Thanks in advance,
Tanner !sad !sad
 
Electaguitar

Electaguitar

Bronze member
Tanner! said:
My front one rides great, back one, not so much. Here are some questions i have and the story.

Ok, so i put in the bearings using the bolt and i did it perfectly. wheel barely spins. i ride it for like 3-4 weeks, and decide to take it off, and i try to put the axle in and it wont go in. i mean my dad and i have tried everything. we cant get the bearings out either, so:

-Where can I use a bearing remover? And I'm not gonna buy one.
-Can I use the warranty on this? Because the bearings bore was too small. That was the problem that started this whole thing.

-I'll buy a new wheel if i cant get this to work, but I don't wanna have to do that.

Thanks in advance,
Tanner !sad !sad
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Lol. Search, and I think you might find that it's very hard to get bearings out of protos. If the axle don't go in, fix the bearing spacer?
 
dezbert

dezbert

Steel Member
The same thing happened to me, tap one of the bearings out a tiny bit using a flathead and a hammer, and then the spacer can easily move around.
 
Mark Abramsky

Mark Abramsky

Member
i got a special way... I use the urathane of my dehubbed proto and put he other one on top then take a bolt bolt and slide it through so it's touching the bearning in the other side and hit it with a hammer..
 
Michael Rankin

Michael Rankin

Super Moderator
just get a 6mm or a 1/4" allen key and put it in one of the bearings at an angle so it catches the inside edge of the other bearing and pound it out with a hammer. then when you get both bearings out just get a small metal file and kinda bore out the bearing whole. then go around each bearing hole with a cheap pocket knife to get rid of all the sharp edges and you have a perfectly good bearing hole. hope it helped
 
-Sal-

-Sal-

Bronze member
what i do is move the bearing spacer to the middle so you cant get anythin through the bearing...
then get a flat head screw driver or anything that would fit in there, take a hammer and hammer the fuck out of the spacer.
eventually it will fall out.
(it helps if you put the wheel in a vice)
thats what i did to get my bearing out, idk if it will work for everyone.
 
scoot3rdan

scoot3rdan

Member
PROTOS SUCK. mine dehubbed and then when i tried to get the berings out everything but the ring on the outside of the bearing came out. does anybody know where to send the dehubbed protos to to be replaced
 
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Tanner!

Steel Member
scoot3rdan said:
PROTOS SUCK. mine dehubbed and then when i tried to get the berings out everything but the ring on the outside of the bearing came out. does anybody know where to send the dehubbed protos to to be replaced
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to andrew :O

but i tried the allen thing and my dad pounded the crap out of it and it doesnt work. i just have to find a bearing press/puller and get em removed that way...
 
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