Manual Hub Wheel bearing replacement

It is nice when you can do all your own repairs without resorting to bringing it to a shop. It does require an investment in tools and I've spent a crapload of money over the last year but I think it's worth it. You spend money on tools but you save a ton in labor costs and now you own the tools that you can keep or sell if you want.

Doing the YouTube channel with my buddy Sean is fun and challenging and people seem to like the videos we're making, so it's a worthwhile adventure. I imagine we'll be making repair/mod videos for a long time to come. Thanks for the vote of confidence for our channel.

 

What's the link to your YT channel?

 

https://m.youtube.com/user/mtbtim65

 

Thank

 

Heyy I just did my bearings not long ago.
You gotta press the hubs out first. Then take the retainer clip off the bearing. Then press the bearing out.
Pressing in the new bearing. Then press the hub in. Pressing the hub in is very tricky if you don't support the bearing correctly.

I'm pretty mechanically enclined and used a 80 ton press at work but managed to screw up the brand new bearings when pressing the hub back in.
I do all my own work but I'll definitely take my bearings to a shop from now on. For me personally, not worth the effort and stress.

 

A video on front axle shaft oil seal, nice. I'm gonna watch that. Thanks

AND steering rack??
Nice, definitely subscribing. These little tutorials are really benefiting people. Way to go

 

It's interesting you mentioned this. When doing my friend Jordan's knuckles, we actually screwed up and didn't support the bearing race underneath while pressing the hub in from the top. We realized it a week later after we finished all the press work and were getting ready to install the knuckles on his rig. But, we got away with it because the bearings were smooth and didn't have any play. He's also driven a few hundred miles so far with no issues. Now, did we potentially lessen the life of the bearings doing this? Maybe. I made an extra clip to add to the repair video letting people know the mistake we made so they hopefully won't repeat it. If we would have used a press sleeve to support the bearing race, it would have been much better. I won't make that mistake again.

When pressing out the hub, there's no doubt the bearing receives a huge amount of force because the bearing has been on that hub spindle for a long time and it gets locked on there. Both hubs required a lot of force to press them out of the bearing and one of them came out with the bearing race still attached and we had to cut it off. Now, pressing the hubs back in required considerably less force. When pressing things apart, there's always a build-up of pressure and then the part finally breaks free. My experience with pressing new parts together is there's not a build up of pressure but just a smooth pressing of the parts together with much less force than was required to press the hub out of the old bearing.

 

any help with finding these online? or what the name is part number is? it's hard to know with the diagram... this one broke and the other is missing... oh brother. any help would be appreciated

 

@zippsub9 could tell you

https://www.tacomaworld.com/members/zippsub9.141634/

 

I got you, just give me a second. I just rolled back from a horrible I-85 road trip full of traffic jams.

 

@derektaco I have never had any luck finding the brass bushings separate from Toyota. There are two on each manual hub. Offroad Solutions has apparently some way to source them and here is the link for getting them inner or outer.

https://www.offroadsolutions.com/products/ors-replacement-hub-bushing/

 

I saw this thread pop up again and I realized I never got back and posted the videos I made on this subject. Here they are.


https://www.youtube.com/embed/TZ2sOfVrnhU


https://www.youtube.com/embed/1TpOYj0sUpA

 

yeah, I ordered from ors last night. 45 a pop... wowza. went to Toyota this morning and they don't keep them in stock, just to confirm. thanks for your help btw

 

was Toyota able to give you a part number at least?

 

nah, their digital fsm doesn't even show the part because it comes with a new hub assembly ( and not sold separately). tacoma world knows... Toyota doesn't... advice to everyone, please be careful with these so you don't pay the premium. now I have to wait for shipping, and god knows during the holiday and this pandemic backup how long it'll take. haha, looks like she'll be down for a minute. I believe they were broken from previous owner. she is 26 years old, so who knows the history.

 

I got you if you need it sooner. Shoot me a PM.