Rear Wheel Bearing Retainer Tool

Description

Rear Wheel Bearing Retainer Tool | Honda CB350 / CB360 / CB450 / CB550 / CB750

When your Honda’s rear wheel has a shimmy, lateral play, or a side-to-side wobble, you are in need of a rear bearing change — and the bearings are held in by a threaded retainer that is often destroyed when attacked with the wrong tools. We made our own rear bearing retainer tool to get it out clean, cutting down your frustration and your maintenance time.

Features

• Prongs machined to fit the bearing retainer holes and grooves exactly, so the tool seats square and turns the retainer without chewing it up
• Three versions sized to the retainer diameters of each model family — pick your bike in the options above
• 9065 attaches to a 3/8 ratchet; 9062 fits a 1/2″ ratchet
• Works for removal and for tightening the new retainer back down

Specifications

Note: Check which tool fits the model you are working on:

• 9065 — CB350 / CL350 / SL350, CB360 / CL360 / CJ360, and CB750F* — removes OEM 41231-286-000
• 9062 — CB450 / CL450 / CB500T, CB750 K0–K5* / CB750F* / CB750A* — removes OEM 41231-283-000
• 9063 — CB500K / CB550K / CB550F — removes OEM 41231-323-020

*The CB750 K0–K5 / CB750F / CB750A has two wheel bearing retainers — the 9062 tool handles the rear wheel retainer, including the inner sprocket-side ring.

Note to CB550 owners: The 550 wheel bearing retainer is reverse threaded, as indicated by the arrow on it — turn it the direction the arrow shows, and let the tool do the work.

Installation

Difficulty: Intermediate

1. The factory peened the retainer into the hub to keep it from backing out. Drill the peen marks with a new or sharp 1/8″ drill bit — ever so slightly, just past the peen mark.
2. Soak the retainer with penetrating oil and heat the hub thoroughly with a heat gun. Heat is what gets this stuff apart — not muscle.
3. Seat the tool squarely in the retainer holes and back the retainer out. This is a hand tool: if the retainer still will not budge, go back to the oil, the heat, and the drill bit rather than reaching for an impact gun.
4. Once the new bearings are in, use the tool to tighten the retainer back down — with anti-seize on the threads it should go mostly by hand — then peen it back in place with a center punch.

The below video was made before Common Motor made our own bearing retainer tools, so have a chuckle while you use the proper tools and follow the step-by-step as needed.