Front wheel bearing removal

[trbig]

You can pull them out and re-pack them... IF you can do it without harming the bearings. Usually, driving them out damages them at least a little bit, and usually a lot. As cheap as they are, If I'm going to take the time to pull them out, I'd just put in new. I can see this maybe for that $50 rear bearing, but not these cheap fronts.

BUT.. that's just my opinion.

Tod

[motoman]

Definitely agree with Tod. New ones(seal both sides) you can pack more grease in them if you have one of the cone two piece wheel bearing packers(got from NAPA). Grease gun attached will push grease in right by the seals, works really good.

[Rickrod3]

What I meant

Maybe that's why I was having such a hard time getting mine OUT! I was attempting it while the temps outside had been below freezing all week, so botht he bearing and the wheel were frozen!



I'm concerned about Rickrod's statement about the bearings not being repackable. I gave up on mine and decided to come back to it later, but are you saying that I can't re-pack the stock bearings? Not that $11 for 2 new bearings is expensive, but the manual says I can do it for free. It looked like I could see the actual balls in the bearing once I took the dust shield off the outside. I figured that once I got them to come out, I could easily clean and repack them.

Since with the spacer in place it is very difficult, in fact I found it impossible to strike the outer races to drive them out.

With that said, hitting them from the inner race was the only way to get them out.
In my opinion that damages them or at least I do not feel comfortable reusing them.
So I admit my statement might be incorrect if someone could get them out by stricking the outer race frankly I cannot see how.
I would not be apposed to removing cleaning and repacking.
Hope this explains what I meant.

Rick

[CatatonicBug]

Since with the spacer in place it is very difficult, in fact I found it impossible to strike the outer races to drive them out.

With that said, hitting them from the inner race was the only way to get them out.
In my opinion that damages them or at least I do not feel comfortable reusing them.
So I admit my statement might be incorrect if someone could get them out by stricking the outer race frankly I cannot see how.
I would not be apposed to removing cleaning and repacking.
Hope this explains what I meant.

Rick

Gotcha. The manual says to use a "drift" to get it out, touching only the outer race. I just don't have a drift to use.

[randy]

You can't reach the outer races, you have to hit the inner races and replace the bearings. The guy who wrote that procedure also wrote the main and rod bearing replacement procedure