[s-cars] Wheel Bearing replacement labor question

[Peter Golledge]

  One hour for the bearings is reasonable in my view, I've had some real 
hell even with a 20 ton press getting them out.  That $90 HF press I got 
is sounding like a good investment right now. :-)

Strut cartridge replacement at an hour each seems way high unless they 
were really rusted in.

On 9/16/2010 6:38 PM, Manuel Sanchez wrote:
> Fellow S-heads,
>
> All this wheel bearing talk seems timely.
>
> Questions are;
> a shop is quoting me 2 hours of labor total to press out my 2 front
> wheel bearings and replace with new ones. I have already removed the
> strut housing from the car and given them to the shop, so my
> inexperienced thinking was that I've done a good part of the labor
> for them. Again my inexperienced thinking hopes that all they have to
> do is carry the housing to the press and press them out and press the
> new ones in, which to me seems like it should take less than an hour
> per housing.
>
> I have been told that there is "set-up" time because the housings are
> an "unusual shape", that and the fact that my old races "were really
> seized in the housing" and so they had to use the "big hydraulic press".
>
> Another bit of service that was done was the replacement of the big
> giant strut cartridge retaining nuts. This labor is also said to have
> taken almost 2 hours to do both. The springs were not under load. To
> my untrained mind this also seem like a really long time, 1 hour per
> nut.
>
> Are these reasonable labor charges based on the fact that I had
> delivered the strut housings out of the car? Would it have been
> easier to remove and reinstall the front bearings if it was all still
> installed on the car?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Manny
> 95.5 urS6 Avant (still strut-less)
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