Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 09:17:53 -0600
Reply-To: Steve Williams <steve@WILLIAMSITCONSULTING.COM>
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From: Steve Williams <steve@WILLIAMSITCONSULTING.COM>
Subject: Re: List Wisdom - DIY rear bearings...
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Hi,
Luckily (or unlucky)? the problem started with the axle nut not staying
tight so I don't have the problem of trying to get the axle nut off! lol.
Thanks for the suggestion about the CV bots. I would not have thought
of that until I had wrecked one of them!
Did you do it with the bearing housing on the vehicle?
Thanks,
Steve W.
On 16/04/2017 7:52 AM, Don Hanson wrote:
> tbe job is difficult but not complicated. Have some extra cv bolts
> on hand, and I had an extre axle nut.. it's now aboard as a spare.
> the forces are BIG! We had my van raised on jackstands under the
> back jackpoints when we tried to deal with the axle nut. With a
> socket and a 6' jack handle as a cheater bar we were bouncing the
> front wheels off the ground with two people on the cheater bar on the
> right side axle nut, and it still wouldn't budge.
> I've got the other side rumbling now😐
>
> On Apr 15, 2017 9:06 PM, "Steve Williams"
> <steve@williamsitconsulting.com
> <mailto:steve@williamsitconsulting.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have determined that I need to repack at a minimum, more than likely
> put new bearings & spacer in the rear passenger side of my 91 Westy.
>
> I watched a step by step on The Samba (
> https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=670910&highlight=bearing+spacer
> <https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=670910&highlight=bearing+spacer>
> )
> In this "step by step", the person had the bearing housing removed
> from
> the vehicle. Looking at my vehicle, it looks like that would require
> removing the backing plate which would require disconnecting the brake
> lines, etc.
>
> I also watched a video (
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDzWH0GebQ&ab_channel=ThomasEXOVCDS
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDzWH0GebQ&ab_channel=ThomasEXOVCDS>
> ).
> In the video, he did the bearing job with the bearing housing "in
> place", working from the back. I don't have a hoist, so I'd be
> doing it
> on a crawler laying on my back.
>
> Nothing I saw in either scared me too much. But the devil is in the
> rusted fastners! lol.
>
> I could pay for a shop to do this, but this is something I fell pretty
> comfortable with. I've been doing my own wheel bearings, brakes,
> basic
> maintenance on all my vehicles all my life.
>
> Am I opening a can of worms trying to do this on my own?
>
> It looks like I'd have to buy some long drifts, and not sure how
> I'd pop
> the grease seal out if I do it "in place". It looks like a long
> reach,
> though if I'm replacing the seal, I could just punch it out from the
> outside of the vehicle.
>
> What is the "list wisdom" of a DIY rear wheel bearing grease? Any bad
> gotcha's?
>
> I'd likely dive in the CV joints at the same time give that I'd
> have the
> shaft out anyway.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Williams
>
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