Date:         Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:15:35 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Front bearings...
Comments: To: rbias@HOTMAIL.COM
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All of the guru on the list told me to take the hubs and bearings to a
machine shop and have them properly pressed in.
I took them to a shop and the fellow said he'd press them in.
I stepped back into the shop area and saw he was hammering them in with a
3 pound mall and an iron rod.
The only thing that got pressed was my wallet.

Stan Wilder
83 Westfalia Air Cooled

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:53:02 -0500 Richard Bias <rbias@HOTMAIL.COM>
writes:
> Good evening All,
>   My Van was acting strange on the way home tonight.  My left front
> was
> making noises and by the time I got near my home, it would actually
> drag the
> left front.  I saw grease from the grease cover too.  I had trouble
> with the
> front caliper (same side) so I looked at that first.  Jacked the Van
> up,
> pulled the wheel, Caliper looked fine.  Put the Van down, looked at
> both
> back wheels and pulled drums to check brakes.  Then I thought, it
> was
> definitely the front...  Jacked the front back up and grabbed the
> wheel on
> the top and pulled...  "wiggle, wiggle, wiggle"...  I said "Oh no".
> Pulled
> the grease cap and metal shavings all over.  Blew out my front
> bearings.
> Here comes the request for assistance...  Bentley tells me I need a
> "copper
> drift" to do the front bearings.  I don't have one.  Do I really
> need it and
> could someone point me to a web page that has the front bearing
> procedure on
> it?  Thank you and Merry Christmas.
>
> Richard and Annemarie
> 85 GL "Buba"
>
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