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07-10-2006, 11:17 AM
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Not bad. Jack the car and use stands. Pull the wheel, calipar, rotor, then go for the wheel bearing. It is in with 4 bolts, as I remember. Should take less than 2 hours.
Make sure you load the new bearing with good grease.
If you do one side, you should probably do the other too.
Make sure you load the new bearing with good grease.
If you do one side, you should probably do the other too.
07-11-2006, 02:26 PM
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You can't load the bearing up with grease since it is a sealed unit. You replace the entire hub. You can get them at Autozone. Good Luck. This is easy. remove the wheel, breake caliper and rotor then the ABS wire and the four bolts.
07-11-2006, 10:54 PM
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Once you get the four hub bolts out, it's highly likely that the hub will still be "stuck". It is a tight fit in the steering knuckle so over time, rust will seal it in there. You can either use a slide hammer (some call it an axle puller) to tap it out. I just used a mini sledge and tapped on all four sides until it came out. Took me 3 hours to do both sides including relubing the brake caliper pins and BS time with a buddy.
07-11-2006, 11:14 PM
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As these guys said, pretty simple. Once the hub is off, be sure to clean the mounting surfaces with scotchbrite pads and make sure they are free of rust and corrosion.
07-12-2006, 07:00 PM
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I would recommend the Timken bearings that autozone sales. They cost alittle more but at my shop we have all kinds of problems with other brands but never with Timken bearings. Just an FYI.
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07-12-2006, 07:37 PM
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Holy ****, 114 bucks a pop for the ones listed above. I just got one done on my sisters var, the bearing was thirty and the labor was thirty... Jesus H Christ thats a lot of money...
07-12-2006, 08:22 PM
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****, well I just got some money back from the guy that I was SUPPOSED To buy some sfc's from, so well see if it bugs me enough. I think I wanna get my tranny mount done first.
07-15-2006, 01:51 AM
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I got 3 in the mail for the grand total of zero dollars, including shipping
Yup, someone had three sitting around off of cars hes parted out and he is sending all 3 to me, and if I can get a good one out of the three he says just refund his shipping...
Yup, someone had three sitting around off of cars hes parted out and he is sending all 3 to me, and if I can get a good one out of the three he says just refund his shipping...
