Changing Wheel Bearings

[d-man]

I'm building a kit car, and the rear wheel bearings off the donor Sierra were properly knackered so I decided to replace them.

So after much cursing, attacking with drifts, pullers etc I got the bearings changed. Or so I thought... Everything seemed ok until I tightened up the hub nuts. Now the hubs are really hard to turn ( I can only just turn them by hand, no brake disks or wheels attached at the mo). They turn smoothly and don't grab at any point, they just don't turn freely. This doesn't seem like a good thing, anyone got any idea what I could have screwed up?

[d-man]

I followed the Haynes book of lies (for the Sierra), which were the only instructions I had.

>> Edited by d-man on Wednesday 17th August 00:14

[d-man]

GreenV8S said:

d-man said: Haynes book of lies So the hub nut has put too much end load on the bearings? How could that happen?

Looks like this could happen as I tightened the hub nuts to the setting for 'Hub Nuts' directly under torque wrench settings in said book. I should have tightened them to the setting for 'Hub Nut', under rear suspension. Which was quite a lot less. Everything seems ok now though