Wheel bearings

[Mark R]

You must have the right tools or take the entire hub assembly out of the car
to do the job on a press.  Impact tools help tremendously, too.

Mark Rosenkrantz

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:27 PM, <cobram at juno.com> wrote:

> There are tools like the Hub Shark, Hub Tamer etc. that will do it on the
> car.  There was also a post or two about an el-cheapo, made in China one
> from Harbor Freight which supposedly worked too.  Look up the tools in
> the archives, there are plenty of past posts with good details.
>
> BCNU,
> http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
> "God's a kid with an ant farm, lady. He's not planning anything."
>
>
> "David Giannandrea" <david.giannandrea at sbcglobal.net> writes:
> > I recall doing this a long time ago on my 5000: banging out the front
> > wheel
> > bearings using a large socket as a drift.
> >
> > But now, it's the 97 A8. Anybody have any advice? Do it, it's easy?
> > Don't do
> > it I'll ruin something? Where to buy a bearing press?
> >
> > BTW, I noticed that both my S4 and A8 take the same bearings. Lucky
> > me.
> >
> > David
> > 1993 S4 (bearings ok)
> > 1997 A8 (bearing hum)
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