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Message: [QUOTE="reepicheep, post: 1356190, member: 104942"] Well, I put the new crank bearings into the case last night. I was amazed at how easy it was, thanks for the great tips all. I put the case halves on a few sheets of aluminum on the gas grill, and closed the lid and let it sit. The grill was adjusted to be about 200 degrees (who knows how accurate the thermometer on it is). The crank bearings had been in the deep freezer for weeks. The first one (the case half that was in the grill the longest) went perfect. The frozen bearing pretty much dropped right in to the greased bore, no tapping or anything. As soon as it warmed up (even before the case cooled down), it was stuck nice and tight. The second one (which I left in the grill for a shorter period of time and was no doubt up to temperature) took some very light tapping, but also went in easily and gracefully. So that is the first hard step, and it was easy. Now I have a new wrinkle... there is a bearing in there that is a little crunchy that I can't find on the Kawasaki parts diagram... I must be missing something obvious... I'll keep looking. I think the one I was looking at is the bearing goes in the bore circled in red in the image below: [IMG]http://www.kilgallons.com/kdx/mysterybearing.jpg[/IMG] Hmmm. I took it to a bearing shop (before knowing it wasn't on the parts diagram) and they crossed it to one they had in stock, but it was an odd size and was $40... the bearing guy said it was probably just expensive because of their suppliers, and that if I looked around I could probably find it cheaper... [/QUOTE]

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