Spares: Blind Bearing Puller Revisited

I'd been ready to give up on the puller and was even considering how much it would cost to ship it back as a return, but I decided to do a little more testing today.

I installed the bearing I'd taken out yesterday into the new hub, applying some grease around the sides.  This time the puller popped it out very easily.  That's when I realized that the teeth had never been able to "hook" onto the edge of the inner race when I was doing it yesterday.  With the bearing sitting flush against the distance collar, there's simply no space for the teeth to dig in.

You'd have to knock the first bearing out with a screwdriver far enough to give the puller something to lock onto.  Once you've done that, you can remove the first bearing with the puller, remove the collar, then easily remove the second.