How do I disassemble these buggers? (87 Wolfsburg) I found this puzzle three years ago when I did CV joints, and got around it then by just packing new grease and not disassembling. Now I need to replace a bearing. With bearing case on the bench, Bentley says: remove seals, slip out inner race of outer bearing, slip out spacer, flip over bearing case and knock out the outer race with a punch. ... But that can not be done! Inner race falls out, but that spacer is a wider diameter than the hole in the bearing it would have to pass through, even with the inner race removed. Maybe this could be done on earlier models??? but on this one, that spacer is not coming out without one of the bearings coming out first. And the spacer prevents a clean shot with a punch. So I'm looking at a big hammer and ugly destruction ... is there a better way to get these apart? |
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