so there i was just driving and driving then i started to hear and feel a knock and ping and who knows what while i was driving. i park the car get out and make sure everything is ok, so there's no loose bolts or anything, so i drive it home and i can feel all the knocking and pinging in the wheel. and extremely loose when i make a right hand turn (putting the most pressure on the drive side wheel)
so im home and i double check the ovious and make sure the lug nuts are all tight. they are... so i jack up the front end and test out by shaking the wheels and there's a great ammount of play in moving the wheel. so either it needs to be majorly adjusted or needs to be replaced... of course in pairs.
can anyone tell me what i have ahead of myself here? like how long, im told no longer than a day and from my service manual is doesn't look hard at all and i think i can get it all done with just my tools, none special needed...
oh and the quick giveaway was that the tires are well worn on the inside rather than the outside... ill be posting pictures on this thread to update you guys
when you replace the bearings be shur to also replace the races also.you will need a race installation tool and a good hammer.it should not take you more than an hour to do both sides
the cage the bearings was "welded" by friction to the spindle but we got that off with a lot of tapping here and there, it was also kinda dry in the drum itself, but it was an easy fix given the parts, and plus yeah we couldn't seat the races completely so i passed by wheel works and they did it for free.
and i installed them using the torque down method and it worked quite well, very straight forward. the only pain i had was getting the **** grease. you cannot get the black disk brake grease anymore, its either "yellow" drum brake grease, the new "red" hi-temp disk brake grease, or the valvoline "brown" grease.
