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I changed my front brake pads and when rotating the wheel, I heard a screeching noise and thought maybe it was caused by rust. but now after driving around for a while I'm
hearing a clicking noise coming from front tire area, how do you replace the front wheel bearings :confused:
Thanks in advance
I'm about to do this... It's not totally easy, and requires extra disassembly if you dont have the right bearing puller tools.
I dont have the tools so I'm going to remove the steering knuckle and take it to a shop to press the bearing out.
The biggest obstacle in my way is the Axle Nut which needs to be dealt with 1st thing. It's on there at 221ft lbs! The right socket, a sturdy wrench and an extension pipe are needed. Keep the wheel on. with the ebrake on and tires blocked stand on the bar for the thing to break loose. Be careful. Then remove everything else keeping the knuckle attached to the car.
Make sure to unstake the axle nut before trying to remove it
I got whooped by this project today... cant get the damn Hub off...It's coming off just a milimeter at a time...I have a slide hammer on it, been tapping for hours. and its barely moved a 16th of an inch. Today came and went and now I have to drive my sunday only car.. to work tomorow while the 'veo is stuck in the garage. I'll probably need a new tie rod when Im done, and new rotor and possibly a new hub ( the 2 philips head screws in the rotor stripped and had to be drilled out)... I'm letting a shop do the other side.
you dont "need" those screws in the rotor.. but they are nice (only hold the rotor flat for when the wheel is off).
are you pulling the whole spindle? or just trying to pull the hub off?
Thanks for that re-assurance PR. Thats good knowing I wont need a hub assembly too.
This hub removal tool has a nice pin that your thread in and is supposed to back the hub out as it applies pressure to the axle shaft, This would work great but the axle just backs off, and I dont want to ruin anything moving the axle back into the tranny.
Instead of the thread-in pin, I have a slide hammer attached. made a sight difference tonight anter another hour of banging on this thing. Hope to get this wrapped up by tomorrow. Looks like I can get a tie rod end and a brake rotor in town tomorrow.
Hope this hub comes off!!
I have the whole knuckle ready to be removed. Just the 2 upper and lower bolts are holding it to the car, All 4 are loose and reay to be removed.
you should just take it the rest of the way out and press them out.
Then just work on prying the bearing off the hub once there pulled? I cant see how I'll get the knuckle on a press with the hub in the way...as a matter of fact, thats how I took the knuckle to a shop and they said, I'd have to remove the hub first before they could press the bearing out.
What Id really like to know is if its ok to use the axle to drive the hub out with the FWD hub removal tool.. When you turn the removal screw inward against the snout of the axle it starts pushing the axle back inward.. I didnt want to be forcing the axle back into the tranny or damaging the CV joints so I stopped after about an inch of inward travel. Does it eventually stop and allow the tool to get the needed pressure on the hub? Or will I be damaging things?
Day # 2 and still fighting with the hub! It's moved outward a tiny bit, but not buy much.
I took the spindle/knuckle off completely and sprayed the backside with some wd40. Reinstalled and spent from 7 to 10 pm working the slide hammer.
I gave in and gave the removal screw a try...It kept pushing the axle back until it popped out of the hub and bent to a wierd angle, I hope I didnt damage it. I backed out the removal screw and got the axle to pop back into place. Seems to have returned to normal, hope it's ok.
So I'm not sure how to remove this thing. I dont want to have to buy some stupid expensive gm tool to do it either.
I'm looking at possibly buying a spindle assembly from a local wreckers. Either one where the bearing is still good and will get me by for a while or one stripped of the hub and bearing. ready for the new bearing...I'll need a new hub if this is the case too...
i have two spindles here with 15k miles on them, if you decide you need them.
but the hub should press out just as easily as the bearing. then you press out the bearing, and replace in the same order.
The shop you took it too just didnt want to do the job plain and simple, I replaced my right front bearing a little over a month ago, i removed the whole knuckle assembly carried it to the press we have in our shop, and pressed out the hub, then pressed out the bearing, pressed new bearing in, pressed hub back in.Quote:
Originally Posted by DailyDriverMark
What the fuzuk. Those goons. Thanks for lettin me know. I took a bailout plan... I found a spindle assy from the wreckers with 70k miles and a 6 month gaurantee, for $40. I installed it and the new tie rod last night 'till 2:30am. Rides nice and quiet again, so I guess I'm good to go for now.
one way or another, atleast your back on the road, $40 isnt too bad, honestly it would probably cost 1 hour labor to press out a hub and then press out a bearing, the shop I work in, our labor rate is $95/hr
The front bearing on these are a bit of a pain to do. did mine last month after murdering them at track day, plus they were due having 155,000km on them. I managed to get the hub assembly apart, but the bearing had to be pulled and inserted by a shop, only 50$, no biggie. hardest part was finding a shop willing to do that. most refused saying they only do full jobs, or didnt have time for it. Took the guy who did i finally about 5 minutes each assembly, though it sat on the bench for about 20 minutes of waiting till he got to doing it.
Was more of a pain than the bearing on my brother cavalier, which was a breeze aside from the knuckle and hub assemblies being fused with rust.
ok guys if you just flip the entire spin dal upside down so the hub is facing downward the put a 20mm socket inside the wheel hub from the back a swat it with a large hammer waaalaaaa press's the hub out from the back :D you can youtube how to remove toyota wheel bearing and there is a guy who shows u how to do it although its a toyota works the same here just did mine........if the bearing race gets stuck don't waste your time trying to pry it off cut if off and save your time
Saw a couple of youtube videos and a thread on this forum where guys removed the old bearings and pressed in the new bearings in place using a slide hammer and bearing adapter kit. Is this really easy enough to do in place with a bearing adaptor kit or is it better to remove the entire spindle and take to a shop to have the bearings pressed? Someone at O'Reilly told me that a bearing adaptor kit can't be used to press in the new bearings that it needed to go to a shop. Harbor Freight has a bearing adapter kit for in-place replacement. What are thoughts here, try in place replacement or take off the spindle and have the bearings pressed at a shop?
So that means I (and many others) have accomplished the impossible :laughing1:Quote:
Originally Posted by gman8321
Maybe that guy should try flipping burgers, because he sure doesn't know much about auto repair.
Read through this thread one more time, and also the one below.
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/f76/1...project-21243/
I used this set directly on the car to change mine, but pretty much anything similar from any brand should work fine. Once the axle is out it's fairly easy to get the bearing itself out and the new one back in.
For the axle, you can do it with a slidehammer, but it's a PITA and requires a lot of effort. I just did both front bearings with one but I'll probably try getting the bridge if I ever need replace them again.