Well w/o stating the obvious, that being the name of the post lol... I'm about to light my car on fire with furiosity...!!! I've searched, searched, smoke a blunt, drank a corona, an searched some more... and cant find for the life of me a way to remove my wheel hub.. When I grab my wheel at 12 an 6 an move it, there is a little bit of play, which im forced to believe is the reason why when I press my brakes at around 50mph my steering wheel shakes vigourisly back an forth "bad wheel bearing"... I'm aware that I'm gonna need the new bearing pressed into the hub w/ a machine, but how the hell do i take this thing off in the first place..!!!! I've hammered an banged an hammered some more from the behind of it, but cant get the damn thing off... I've removed the whole brake system from its former location, an c/v axle 1-1/4" nut an everything... What is stopping this god forsaken CD sized peice of metal from coming off..!! Thanks....

 

get a pickle fork, break apart the upper balljoint, lower balljoint and tie rod end wiggle it off the axle and BAM its free.

 

take the axle nut off, rotors, caiper, etc off... go rent a slide hammer from autozone and it will be off in 2 seconds.. dont forget to rent the flange for the slide hammer also.

http://www.autozone.com/in_our...l.htm

 

I knew it man.... I was crackin the **** outta that damn thing, an it wasnt budgin for anything.... Oh well, look like its off to autozone to hand over some more frickin money... Thanks a lot guys....

 

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its only $35 for both. and you get it back when you take the tools back. so its free.

when you go in there to ask for the slide hammer and slide hammer flange, they are going to give you a wierd look and say they dont have the flange. thats because although on their website its called "slide hammer flange" in the store its called something like "axle puller". so youll have to point them both out to what you want on their little place mat thing that shows you all the tools they rent.

 

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its only $35 for both. and you get it back when you take the tools back. so its free.

when you go in there to ask for the slide hammer and slide hammer flange, they are going to give you a wierd look and say they dont have the flange. thats because although on their website its called "slide hammer flange" in the store its called something like "axle puller". so youll have to point them both out to what you want on their little place mat thing that shows you all the tools they rent. </TD></TR></TABLE>

thanks man.. im gonna head there tomorrow.. i saw a post on here about using ur old bearing to press the new one in..?? how acceptable does that car appreciate that lol? sounds kinda like a ghetto way to do it, but have u heard any feedback?? or is it just easier to spend the 30 bucks for pep boys to press it in..?

 

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yea if you dont feel comfortable pressing it in yourself then pay someone to press it in. tighten the axle nut down to press the hub back in..

 

When I had to pull the hub to replace wheel studs, I pulled the entire hub and knuckle out of the car, then put it on a press to get the hub out of the knuckle. Then I put the new hub back in with the same press.

Do you mean that you can't get the hub out while the knuckle is still on the car? I don't think you can do it that way... At least I couldn't see how.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Vindicator9000 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">When I had to pull the hub to replace wheel studs, I pulled the entire hub and knuckle out of the car, then put it on a press to get the hub out of the knuckle. Then I put the new hub back in with the same press.

Do you mean that you can't get the hub out while the knuckle is still on the car? I don't think you can do it that way... At least I couldn't see how.</TD></TR></TABLE>

yes.. you can. you did it the hard way..

if you read above, you need a slide hammer. if you knew what that is, then you would know how it would work. and then you just press the hub back on by tightening the axle nut..

 

Sorry, I didn't see the bit above about the slide hammer. Thanks for the info.