Need help with Vicon mower

[River Woods]

Hi, new member here, cause I need some help. My uncle gave me a Vicon CM205 mower missing some bearings on the outboard disc. It is in pretty good shape otherwise. I've done similar repairs on a disc mower before, so it seems like I should be able to tackle this one. I haven't been able to find any manuals or part lists for this model. I don't think they made very many of them.

I have the cutter bar opened up, and plan to replace all of the bearings on it, as it was somewhat exposed to the weather for a few years, and it seems like I should just do a complete rebuild while I have it apart. My issue is how do you remove the idler gears and bearings? There's limited clearance underneath the gears for a puller, and they appear to be on there pretty dang tight.

I'm beginning to think these are an interference fit, and the only hope of removal is with a flame wrench. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Tom in Oregon

 

[flying belgian]

Wait!! Don't cut it up yet. I may have the
manual for mine. I will check this
morning.

 

[River Woods]

Thank you! I really appreciate any help you can offer.

 

[flying belgian]

Sorry but I don't have the manual. I've
never had mine apart so I know not how its
made.
Someone on here has suggestions how to get
them off.
C'mon people can we help him out?

 

[Agrinews]

Parts are available via your Kubota dealer. Kubota took over Vicon almost 10 years ago.
I will try to add a picture of the parts page of the cutterbar, but this forum did not accept my page upload I think. Will try again.

 

[Agrinews]

The references on the page you need to add: VN in the front and take the dots out. like VN40101527

 

[Agrinews]

if you leave emael adress on the page I can send it to you

 

[steve in ok]

I have rebuilt a couple of CM 240's and the idler gears were not a interference fit. They came off fairly easy with a couple of pry bars under each side.

 

[River Woods]

Thanks for the replies. The one video I've found used pry bars to pull them, but I didn't have any luck with that at all. I have gotten one off with the surgical use of a cut-off wheel, but I still need to try and get the outer race off the gear. I'm going to try heating the gear in the hopes the race will fall out, unless someone has a better suggestion.

Thanks.