Just a basic run through of changing the unit hub bearings on your truck. The original bearings had 185k on them
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I44UKBI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Just a basic run through of changing the unit hub bearings on your truck. The original bearings had 185k on them
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I44UKBI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Works great with anti seize. If the first time will take hours!!
Hub/Bearing Bolts ———————————————————————–149 ft lbs
Axle Nut – 132 ft lbs Beginning Torque, Then Rotate 5 to 10 ~ Times With a Final Torque of 263 ft lbs
Doing mine now just under 200,000 miles on them. Everything going good til I got to the hub retaining bolts. Dam are they seized up. I might have to cut the ball joints to get the spindle out and get a new spindle. 15 minutes with an Ingersoll impact rated at 650LBS and the bolts didn''t move a bit. Going to wash them down with muriatic acid and hope to hell they come out. It is insane how stuck they are.
I had mine replaced 8,500 miles ago with Moog ($400+ each) and they are already loose, just bad luck? The original only went about 88,000 miles- more bad luck…
Anyway, I am about to replace them again but this time myself, is lubing the bearing with grease before install needed?
Ive got 350,000 kms on original hubs. 200,000 miles.
Any recommendations on brands to replace with? I need good quality and inexpensive and fast delivery thank you
My mechanic charged me 220USD for one bearing plus labor and tax for doing one bearing. Cost over 400. Is that alot?
20mins but takes one week to order the socket to get the hub off lol
not 20 min more
So this is for a 2001 or later, right?
Assuming u live where there's no salt on road and nothing is rotted!!
Having mine replaced right now. 2013, 2500 with 275,000 miles. I've replaced tie rods and ball joints twice. My advice stay away from Mopar junk when it comes to your frontend.
Very clean. Organized.
Good vid. I had a 03 2500 and had to change out the ball joints at around 60K. Trying to save the front bearings was the hardest part since mine where not anti-seized and had rusted in pretty good, and I'm not even in the rust belt.
My bearings where still good and I didn't want to replace them and I didn't have the money to replace the bearings at the same time as the ball joints so I had to keep working them out little by little since they where seized in and using a sliding hammer would have damaged the bearings. I ended up using two 1 ton bottle jacks and backed the bearing bolts out about 1/4" then put the two bottle jacks (one on the front side of axle and one on rear side of the axle) from frame to bearing bolt heads and slowly put pressure on them with the jacks and had to hit on the part of the bearing where the bolts went in to slowly get them to give and work their way out.
Needless to say when I put the bearings back in they had they had anti-seize on them so if I had to change them out in the future it would have been a lot easier to remove the old ones.
Good content. Folks this is how easy it should be. This is a perfect example of someone who takes the time to do the jod right the first time around. Thanks for sharing.
Great video I just hit a 105k on mine front u joints are out left side is clunky right side is too, not as bad tho. Bearing on left is shot has notable grinding sound and right is about the same not as bad. I think it was 250 ft. Pounds for axle nut and hub nut was 50 ft. Pounds then another 90 degree turn.
its pretty much identical to the gmc 2500 i had. i just wanted to check because i am new to the dodge brand. never have owned one before. i must say this is a great video, i assume its the same basically on a 2012 RAM 2500.. question tho i you dont mind.. when the truck is in 2wd i dont really hear anything except when i turn really sharp its kinda a clunking noise. and in 4wd it seems to make a vibrating sorta thing. would that be my hubs you think? anyways great video i subscribed because of it
Greta vid…thnx!
Whats the background noise toward the end?? Do you live right beside the ocean? Lol.
Anyway good vid, you make it look too easy. I should do a video when I do my dodge. 465,000 kms hasnt been touched yet, so don’t think it’s gonna go quite as smoothly as yours. Probably be a lot of swearing and a big hammer involved!
My 2500 diesel (2012) has 95,00 miles on it and both hubs started screeching today. Great video, how tight do you tighten the spindle nut. The bearings you have are the Detroit Axle model? Thanks for the help!