does anyone know how to change a wheel bearing i dont remember?

 

Front or rear?

 

If you don't have a press, take it to a shop. For front, take off the steering knuckle for the side that the bearing (you think) is bad. Take out the outer metal ring by prying with a screwdriver. Remove the inner ring with some snap ring pliers. Then you have to press the bearing out, and more than likely one of the racers (inner part of the bearing) will be stuck on the hub. Its a pain to get off most of the time, and it is MUCH easier to take it to a shop and **** the technicians off lol. Beleive me, it does (I'm a techy).

 

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I agree, but if you take it to a shop you might as well leave the parts on the car. I took the parts off the car and I could not find anybody to press the bearing out (or even remove the brake rotor, damn stripped screws) so I had to put all the crap back on the car and drive it to a shop for them to do it.

 

True, because most dealerships/shops charge insane amounts of money anyways, so whats the 2x the money if you're spending a ton anyways?!?

I've never had a problem taking parts off and taking them to a shop if I didn't have the capabilities at home. One time I even took a spindle to the local high school bus barn, they had a press and a torch and got the bearing out and the racer off too. I knew one of the guys, but I bet if you went in there and offered $25 to someone if they pressed it in/out for you, they'd do it.

 

i have taken a wheel bearing out before withouot the press with a hammer and something else just the right size around the bearing but i dont remember what it was or exactly how i did it. i also am a delivery guy for a pizza place so i dont really have time to take it to a shop

 

but thanks for the info guyus cuz i should take it to a shop i have other things i need to do

 

For the $$$ every local shop wanted to replace both of my front wheel bearings I went a bought a press from Harbor Freight and did the damn things myself. I ended up doing all of my studs and bushings as well and saved hundreds in the end.

 

Man, so funny that this thread just came up because I just replaced my bearing last weekend. Ended up doing it christmas eve, so we had no fancy shop, so we did what anyother person would have done....we torched it! Came out in about a minute. The more logical way would be a press tho. Either way, its gonna be a bitch getting the new one in properly, make sure you clean the **** out of everything because if that bearing isnt in all the way it wont seat and your snap ring wont go back in properly and then you'll be in a world of ****. Good Luck

 

wouldn't it just be quicker to find a hub assembly for the front and just swap it out? I bought a whole hub assembly from a civic with good wheel bearings for $20.

 

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Now there is a good idea why didn't I think of that?

 

if you cant get to a shop to do it, you can use an air chisel to push it out. Its also easier to remove the race with an air chisel just be very careful.

 

getting the fronts out is easy. It's putting them back on without damaging it is the tricky part.

I have access to liquid nitrogen fridge, so I chilled the bearings to the bone and heated up the knucles, they went in without any problem.
To get the hub back into the bearing is the hardest. You can't heatup the inner race of the bearing so I cooled the hub and used the OLD bearing inner race to press it properly on. Just follow the Helm's logic but cooling helped a lot!

 

I was going to suggest heating the hub and freezing the bearing. If you don't have access to a press, buy one or make a plate the size of the bearing and hammer that thing out.