Wheel bearings or something worse?

[Idle Duffer]

When you fit new bearings to the rear of golfs you need to tighten the nut up reasonably tight to seat the rollers, then back off the nut totally.  Then retighten to the point where there is no play evident in the bearing then tighten further to line up the next available split pin hole.  Dont slacken it off to line up the holes.  Refit everything else and go for a test drive.   I always re-check them after a few days coz they nearly always have bedded in a bit.

[Jay]

Cheers mate. Going to give this a try tomorrow, I was going to do it tonight but the light was too bad by the time I got the drum back (I've no garage  :embarassed: )

Also got to remove the inner bearings that are still perfect, might clean em up and use them as a paper weight.

[Jay]

Sorted 

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=73141.msg584035#msg584035

[herbster]

 
Sometimes the self adjusters spread the shoes out too much needing you to rewind it a bit and ensure the shoes make a circle not oval before the refit as they do move around a bit even with the retainers on, the self adjusters are situated just below the brake cylinder like a serrated wheel on a reverse thread. The bearing are loose due to lack of grease and the fact that they're taper bearings, never hit the drum on you will damage the shoes or the backing plate, that could make more work for the future!!