Don’t do what I did one time , and blogged about it. Don’t buy one of those axle nut slugging wrench things. Puts too much stress in bearings i th8nk. I’ve had times where I couldn’t keep the van from moving when trying to remove nut with cheater bar. That is, 3 ft 3/4” drive breaker bar with a pipe to extend more. Was climbing the van over the chocks. Had a friend use his impact on it, no prob. Alistair > On Apr 21, 2022, at 12:17 PM, Jack R <jack007@comcast.net> wrote: > > As I recall... I did mine myself, and the only issue was finding a torque > wrench to put 350 ft lbs on the rear axle nut. > > https://shufti.blog/2011/04/16/vanagon-rear-wheel-bearing-replacement/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of B > Feddish > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2022 10:58 AM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Rear wheel bearings > > After 250K miles it looks like the rear wheel bearings need replacment. > I've done the front successfully in the past but the rears look a bit more > complicated. I've contacted a few shops and the time estimates (including > removing the inevitably rusty stripped bolts) are quite high for this job. > I was thinking of maybe tackling this myself. I've checked out a few videos > and some have the axle coming out and other have the wheel bearings, etc. > removed from the back and other vidoes showing the bearing housing being > removed from the front after moving the backing plate. So the question is, > which method is better and are either of them doable by an amateur (me) that > VW turned into a part time mechanic 40 years ago? > > Thanks > Bryan |
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