Changing front wheel bearings

[dnb]

Is this an easy & cheap job?

I'm wondering if I should do this while the hubs are off the car for the big brake conversion work... There's no play in them, but they are 100k+ miles old, so I doubt they'll last that much longer.

I have a week's "waiting time" while the diff build is finished, so using it productively would seem sensible.

Edited by dnb on Monday 27th October 15:32

[chrispitman]

The hardest part will be undoing the hub nut with the hubs off the car.

[HRG]

I just popped my uprights into my local "dirty" garage. They undid them, supplied and pressed new bearings in and torqued them up again for £40 cash per side. Not worth the aggro of trying to press them out yourself for that kind of money.

[spend]

HRG said:

I just popped my uprights into my local "dirty" garage. They undid them, supplied and pressed new bearings in and torqued them up again for £40 cash per side. Not worth the aggro of trying to press them out yourself for that kind of money.

That wouldn't be Dels' by any chance would it?

[clive f]

dave I have a 3/4" drive socket set that`ll do the job, and bearings are cheap from
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[spend]

If the hubs are off you will prob need an impact gun tho....

[clive f]

just put it in a big vice, and gently squeeze

[spend]

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[Full Throttle]

An Impact gun won't even touch the hub nut, trust me! Power bar job, and prob best on the car or held in a very large vice!

[Pasco]

3/4 wrench and a 6ft scaffold pole will do the trick

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Full Throttle said:

An Impact gun won't even touch the hub nut, trust me! Power bar job, and prob best on the car or held in a very large vice!

Neill Anderson would use an impact gun. I watched him do it on 2 of mine, no sweat, no danger, no time at all... In all things running gear related I personally would follow Neill's example, but each to his own

[spend]

Blinkin Eck! that afternoon in paradise (garage) must have done you some good Quinny Not only are you all sweetness & light, you're also repeating yourself

[spend]

Funnily enough my trap is struggling, must just be the very cold'n'wet stuff around at the mo

[Barkychoc]

Don't get robbed for a new front wheel bearing - its a sierra wheel bearing - I've had a couple for a fiver each on ebay including the hub nut (these are LH/RH thread each side - Passenger side RH, Drivers LH, I've even seen bearing kits that come with both nuts).

(Very early sierras had RH thread both sides, maybe then they realised the drivers side nut undoing itself wasn't such a hot idea & changed it).

Here's my old thread for my V8S front wheel bearing change

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Chris

Edited by Barkychoc on Thursday 30th October 19:28

Edited by Barkychoc on Thursday 30th October 19:31