Date:         Wed, 28 Jun 1995 18:42:12 -0700 (PDT)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "Tobin T. Copley" <tobin@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca>
Subject:      Re: My rear wheel ...

On Wed, 28 Jun 1995, Ken Gee wrote:

> 	I am currently replacing the right rear wheel bearings on my 84
> Westphalia.[snip]
> 	Getting the wheel bearings out is pretty easy.  The outer bearing is
> a straight roller thats pretty tightly pressed into the housing.  I may have
> to take the housing to a machine shop to get it pressed in.  
> 	Anyone have any experience replacing those bearings?

I did the rear bearings on my 76 a couple of months ago.  I had no 
special tools, and boy was it a hassle.  Took me ALL day!  I was able to 
drive the races in/out with a CAREFULLY placed punch or big, big socket, 
but the worst part was getting the circlip located inboard of the inner 
race off and back on.  I modified an old screwdriver to fish the clip 
out, but had to do the old twisted-wire-through-the-circlip-eyelet-
then-cut-the-wire-once-it's-in trick to get the circlip back in.  And it 
took a LOT of force to bash the inner race in far enough to allow the 
circlip to seat.  Ugh.  I'll take it in to a shop next time (No, not a 
VW dealership, Sergio...) if I can't afford to buy the tools to do the job 
efficiently.

Tobin 
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