wheel bearings

[ryan22nd]

wheel bearing on a mk1.. both fronts, anything like doin it on a bike? any ad wud be smashing. Ryan

 

[edde]

Dead easy to take hub off (10 bolts if you include the whell nuts) then get it to a agareg and get them to press it out and stick a new bearing in say £30.
I'd just get a second hand hubs though £30~40 or so for one.

 

[jammydj]

don't spose anyone's got a step by step how to on this have they?
It's one of those things that seems to go very often and if it's only £30-£40 for the fix, it's better than the £60-£70 that the garage charge just for the bearing...

cheers
J

 

[edde]

don't spose anyone's got a step by step how to on this have they?
It's one of those things that seems to go very often and if it's only £30-£40 for the fix, it's better than the £60-£70 that the garage charge just for the bearing...

You need a press to chnage bearing hence why you need to get either a new or second hand hub or get a garage to press the bearings out there no way round it.

 

[AcID ZeR0]

Don't make the same mistake I did,I tell you now I was in such a situation.

Not only was I one of the very few with 54mm spacing or 52mm i forgot which evers rarer anyway, a big fat greek bloke at a garage who I slipped £20 to broke the hub.
"Sorry I broke your hub"... well seeing as you have a big fat breakers bar in your hand and your twice the size of me, thats alright in fact i was going to do that myself......

To save the agro of sourcing another hub I went down the scrappies and brought front supension and hubs, see there was 5 clios down there all had the same hubs (The one that dont fit mine, so i just changed the supensions).

The moral of the story? buy a second hand hub for £20.