The bearing is 24 years old and has 155 000 kms. It was quite easy thanks to a “special” trick. No press used : ) and the only annoying task was to remove th…
Pressed wheel bearing replacement (without a press…)
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Good video! I’ve heard of people doing this, but your video was most
helpful in actually seeing someone do it.
Fantastic job on the car AND the edits!
La mécanique au système D! Brilliant!
You sir, are brilliant.
Greasing the actual bearing……packing the bearing…….hmmmm
Maybe one day this will save me some time and money. Thx
My only comment, It’s unsafe to use compressed air to clean rear drums,
Should use a mask, or a brake cleaner.
Will this work for all pressed in wheel bearings? Like putting a steering
knuckle into the oven? Would it expand enough? What if you don’t have a MIG
welder, can you still get the race out? I have an air hammer, will that
work?
nice wolf…..
I didn’t like this video at all. I hope I will never has to bring my car to
this guy. This is crazy and so much trouble when there is a simple tool to
do this job. Not professional and for what I know u can not heat the
bearing more than 110 degrees.
refreshing to see a good home mechanic at work… its too easy to part with
our hard earned money to more and more expensive garages/franchises, well
done sir i salute you… having only had to drift out bearings from alloy
wheeled motorcycles i realise how hard if must have been in that iron brake
hub…
Today I am gunna try to get mine fixed. I just can’t seem to hit it out
with a hammer and another tool. I’m not sure what I’m going to do. I just
hope I can get it.
very clever!!! good job.
Embarrassing .. you do not have the expertise even better tools
About Thomas’s idea to do this without using a welder to get a groove in
the race? No, I definitely do not think it’ll work. The race is very smooth
and you’ll be fighting and fighting. I picked up a trick from another
youtube channel – I hope to give credit later, I don’t remember his
name…he used a cut off tool to cut down the old race, hit it a bunch with
a hammer and when it cracked it fell off.
That may be away around using the a mig or plasma…I’m personally warming
up on buying one myself. :)
some kind of vauxhall/opel? mk3 Cavalier I think (UK version) or European
equivalent.
Good trick with the heating, you can also do good things with some threaded
rod and some sockets etc, maybe a mixture of the two would make the job
easy but not risk any overheating (100C drum and -20 bearing for instance)
Viva La France!
Excellente! Smart Guy!!
I had the biggest grin on my face when I saw the bearing just drop in like
that. That is too awesome. Many kudos! :)
this guy means business!
We even do this on the bearings in F16 jet engines 😉
Well done!
Brilliant!!!
How long did you heat soak the drum and cool the bearing?
Gee, you could have had a burger while the drum cooled!
I use this when I install new bearing in the two stroke engine for my
seadoo sportster. The only difference is I cool the crank and heat the
bearing so the bearing will slide onto the crank journal.
I wonder if placing a hunk of dry ice in the old bearing would shrink it
enough to remove it without so much pounding. I have a bearing to replace
soon …I might just try it and let you know if it works
Hi, many thanks for sharing
nice job! you just saved a few hundred bucks.
Hahaha..that was awesome! Pretty smart idea.
Just wondering if the thermal shock of being ice cold then the intense heat
from surrounding metal would affect the bearing grease and/or the bearing
rollers??