Just found out from a farmer friend that if you run a bead with the welder around the outer race of the bearing when its in the housing, it will shrink the outer race. It will come out quite easily. I tried it tonight, ran a bead just on the wheel side of the race the first time. It took a little work to get the bearing out. Second time I ran a bead on both the inner and outer. Then I had a 2.5" piece of pipe that I ran a bead around with the welder to make a bearing driver and it was just big enough to drive that bearing out with a couple whacks.
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