I'll be doing a brake job on my car sometime in the spring, and i was just wondering how much work it is to replace all the wheel bearings?
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its about an hour hour and a half job but you need a shop press to install the new bearings. if you have the right tools, its a piece of cake.
do you really need to do it? I figure check them first before spending the money/time. our 90T only has 90K miles.... they checked out good. lower ball joints aint good though.
what is it doing to tell you its the lower ball joints lol im tryn ot figure out on mine if its the ball joints or the wheel bearing in only makes clicking noises when i make a left and its the right wheel
If you do change the Bearings get them from mr-auto-parts.com, I found them to be the cheapest there, and plus they have a lot of other stuff for our car. I have ordered a crap load of stuff from them and you get it with in two days with free shipping.
cruzinbill said:
well, i had my car on the lift in class, and i was turning one of the front wheels, and you could hear a scraping noise... not sure if it's just the pads rubbing or the bearings.... pads are getting small, but the warning clips are not touching.
wow, they are cheap. $34/ea for lower ball joints!! i wonder what brand they are. and how good they are.
Don't pay a shop to do it. With the labor involved, you can purchase your own press and diy, $99. Then you can charge friends and neighbors to do all of theirs too... :bigthumb:
^^^ That's excellent advice ! I've always done what I can at home, buying the tools needed, learning and saving $$$ along the way. Now I have a hell of a tool collection. I figure I've save over the years maybe 1, 1 & 1/2 million $$$.:biglaugh:
I got my own press from harbor frieght. pretty nice deal... it's like a 12 toner or somin. but I still need to pay a machine shop to press my axle bearings in/out for my truck. those semifloater bearings are a BIATCH. i heard it takes a 20 ton press for them and specialo adapters. I haven't looked at the front bearings yet to see if I can do them on my press or not.
Believe it or not all of the stuff that i have ordered from Mr-Auto-Parts.com at a discount all have been Genuine Toyota Parts, I just ordered a new Brake Master Cylinder for $60, i got it and it said Toyota and ASIAN on it. Worth every penny. If you decide to get your self a press, check Ebay. There is a lot of tool stuff on there.
do the front bearings need packing or are they already packed? What kind of grease do they need?
It's not that much work, maybe two hours. I took mine out without a press (just put the hub on a piece of huge pipe and smacked the crap out of it. I put the new one in with a press, but I still felt it didn't go in far enough. I ended up getting a 10ft long pipe as a cheater bar on the hub nut and got it in even more.
Never had a problem with it again.
Never had a problem with it again.