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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: jammac on 31 May 2011, 16:29
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hi
ive got a kaput rear wheel bearing judging from the racket its making. ive got 2 spare kits. is this a job i can do at home with standard tools or is it gonna have to go to a garage as they all have hydrualic pullers/ press etc whatever.
its a 91 8v gti with rear discs
cheers
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You'll need a press, although I'm sure someone on here made a DIY press though.
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hmmmmm just found my soggy & wet haynes manual (nice) in the garage pages i need are dry! its says to drift the bearings out and use a tube drift to fit the new ones.
ive got an aluminum drift so hopefully that should do it. oh and a scaffold pole thats a tube!
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You can get away without a press when doing the rear ones.
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You can get away without a press when doing the rear ones.
great thats what i wanted someone to say
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It is easier with a press, but can still be done fairly easy without one.
Drift out the old shells, use these to tap in the new shells.
A good tip, put the disc in the oven, and the new bearing shell in the freezer.
The new shell will virtually fall in.
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Just take it slow and easy man, its easy enough but is also easily fecked.
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A good tip, put the disc in the oven, and the new bearing shell in the freezer.
The new shell will virtually fall in.
Great idea :afro:
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I did my 2 rear wheel bearings at the weekend, was easy and I used a couple of suitably sized sockets from the days when I had a land rover and a big hammer, just make sure the bearings go in square, otherwise they will go in cock eyed and get stuck.
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Nice tips AudiA8.
TBH the problem is the front bearings. Rears are piss.
I would just buy new disks while you are there and tap in the new bearings to that :smiley:
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Rear barngs are piece of piss even with amiture tool as the clever german chaps have left a channel 2 tap the old bearings out with a scrw driver ( unlike fords or vauxhals ive worked on) then just tap the new ones in with the old, gotta start some where m8 and u cant realy go wrong with the rear ones
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That was easy thanks for the heads up didn't wanna take the car to bits if It was impossible without a proper press.
No nasty grinding noise anymore. Sweet
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hopefully you tightened them up correctly and didnt forget the split pin :laugh:
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hopefully you tightened them up correctly and didnt forget the split pin :laugh:
Hopefully you remember to fill your car with petrol not diesel next time you fill up. :grin:
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hopefully you tightened them up correctly and didnt forget the split pin :laugh:
Hopefully you remember to fill your car with petrol not diesel next time you fill up. :grin:
I've never done that :smiley: