Stripping bearings from swingarm

[chris900divvy]

Well I decided to buy a cheap swingarm with view to stripping it and either repainting or having it coated to replace the one in mine, mostly because I perceived a lot of difficulty in removing the linkage rod bearings which really aren't in a good state and thought it easier to keep the bike on the road rather than remove swingarm just to do that job.
Unfortunately the linkage bearings in this one seem to be a little worse for wear too, one of them broke up when I tried to drift it out while the other one is still intact but proving difficult to budge...Obviously I would like to fit it to the bike with new bearings throughout.
So just wondering really if anyone has any tricks to share that would make this job easier to do? Also want to remove the cups for the swingarm bearings, presume a blind bearing puller will be necessary for the harder to access one?

[HRHpenfold]

You can use a large socket, some threaded bar with some large washers, to have to grind two sides of the washer that fits behined the bearing, in order for it to fit, you then can draw the bearing seat out, otherwise you can grind it thin then split with a chisel, or even weld around the bearing so it cools and shrinks,

I normally weld a bit of steel across with a hole, then use a slide hammer to pull it out.