Noisy ... wheel bearings?

[Donald Lamond]

Thanks for your writeup.  Maybe some other listers would be willing to  rent your tool to help defray  your expenses of buying the tool.

Donald
84 4Ks

David Conner wrote:

> I bought the $300 Schley tool that allows you to do the replacement with the strut on the car. It's still a PITA though. In hindsight I'm thinking it may not have been worth the cost. I still ended up having to take the hub to a shop to have the old outer bearing race pressed out of it. Screwed up the first bearing and had to do it all again. Now it looks like I'll be doing it a third time... except this time I'll do as Fred Munro suggests and replace both sides and see if that solves the problem.
>
> Doing the replacement on the car is still a lot of work, and it's real easy to trash the ball joint boot while you are at it.
>
> The ideal would be to follow Scott Mo's advice... rebuild the entire front suspension when you get past about 100 k miles, and replace the bearings, bushings, CV boots, and everything else while it's all apart. I'd probably carry the entire strut to a comptent shop and have them press in the bearings.
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> Dave C.
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> At 09:05 AM 6/24/2001 EDT, DGraber wrote:
> >>>>
> I would be very interested in what you find as I have a 91 100 that is doing
> much the same thing.
> You mentioned replacing the CV boot, but not the joint itself. Could the CV
> joint be the culprit? Just a thought.
> How did you do your own bearings? Do you have a press?
>
> Dennis
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