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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: Cory on 03 December 2010, 01:36
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i remember seeing a post where someone had made their own jig for pressing in wheel bearings out of some pretti basic stuff.
anyone know who that might have been?
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ive used a porta power in between a door frame which is what they use for car body work. I don't recommend using a vice as i broke mine in half.
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ahhh. i just remember seeing someone using a DIY device. it was soo simple and i remember thinking it would be really effective. it was basically b piece of wood to clamp the bearing housing to, and a threaded rod with a socket behind a tapped breaker bar kind of thing. set up on a workbench
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a garage will charge you only a few quid to 'just' press the bearing..
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a mechanic i used to work with used to use a piece of threaded bar with a nut welded on one end with a piece of flat bar drilled for a stop then sockets and various bearing shells till the company stopped being tight and bought him a press
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a garage will charge you only a few quid to 'just' press the bearing..
Yep much safer
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Don't bother, you'll most likely f**k up the bearing.
You can buy/rent a press cheap, or as above, just get a garage to do it for buttons.
When you've seen a bearing 'ping' out of the WBH - you'll be less inclined to bodge!
There's two things I don't like messing with when working on cars, assembly/disassembly of springs+struts and pressing things!
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I remember using a piece of scaffolding pipe on my rear ones, Worked a treat, :cool:
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I remember using a piece of scaffolding pipe on my rear ones, Worked a treat, :cool:
Ah, rears are different, you don't need a press. You can tap out the races with a small hammer and stake.
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Just dont take a hammer to the bearing without personal protective equipment. :embarassed:
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Yes always remember FULL P.P.E
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yes get a garage to do it if fronts, aint no point in losing an eye to save a few quid! and trust me your fingers will thank you for it too!
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Just dont take a hammer to the bearing without personal protective equipment. :embarassed:
A Box? :laugh:
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better than losing an eye :laugh:. i was standing quite far from the hammering and a piece of the bearing hit me near the eye.
Lots of blood :lipsrsealed:
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better than losing an eye :laugh:. i was standing quite far from the hammering and a piece of the bearing hit me near the eye.
Lots of blood :lipsrsealed:
Pics or it never happend!
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better than losing an eye :laugh:. i was standing quite far from the hammering and a piece of the bearing hit me near the eye.
Lots of blood :lipsrsealed:
Almost happened to me knocking part of the old race off the front hub, but I was wearing goggles :)
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I made one. From parking the car to driving away, I can change a wheel bearing in 45 minutes. No need to remove the struts, suspension geometry is unchanged. If I ever need to change a bearing whilst on a trackday, I can do so and lose less than an hour :smiley:
I mount the brackets etc to the hub on the car, pull out the old bearing and push in the new one
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b207/wh00sher/Golf/NLP_1355.jpg)
Pressing new flange into place
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b207/wh00sher/Golf/NLP_1356.jpg)
New wheel bearing and flange, fitted in situ B)
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b207/wh00sher/Golf/NLP_1359.jpg)
The `thing`
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b207/wh00sher/Golf/NLP_1310.jpg)
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Lol, that's a neat little tool. I wouldn't have thought you could get the driveshaft out the hub without unbolting either the bottom ball joint or strut though?
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You are quite right, it needs the bottom BJ popping out of the hub. However, thats one bolts and so long as you don`t touch the 3 bolts holding the BJ to the wishbone, the geometry is unchanged ;)
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I like that tool.
Maybe you should make and sell them?
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Yer man, thats some quality engineering right there