Front wheel bearing replacement

No change in sound, but I could feel a sensation similiar to something grinding through the steering wheel.

 

I'm at 88k and I'm starting to hear a questionable bearing type hum on the frwy so I most likely will be dealing with this in the near future too. No sloppy play in them yet. Hooray for non serviceable wheel bearings! The serviceable ones could be used forever if maintained properly and swapped in less than 2 hrs in your driveway with handtools if necessary. Think I maaaay have changed them once in 27 yrs on the 82 and it had about 500k on it. Greedy underengineering factory bitches!............

 

There should be lock nut that needs to be tighten to spec (not too much not too losse) that way bearing is compressed. nut is locked as well so it does not loosen itself up. They either forgot or set preload to wrong number.

 

You can not perform maintance on these bearings because they are sealed.

I actually took mine all the way off down to the hub assembly/bearing and took it to Les Schwabb to have them press it out, come to find out it wasn't the bearing. Luckly I didn't have them press it because they guy was certain it wasn't the bearing. So to answer your questions its actually pretty easy to get to and take off... I had taken off both side in about 20min a piece with help from a buddy. So other than the press its a fairly quick process if you have help. I don't know where this 5 + hours are coming from, I'm not even very Mechanically enclined and it wasn't a bad job. And it is def cheaper to have it pressed out from the hub compared to buying a WHOLE hub/bearing assembly. I priced everyone in town, and would have saved $150 total after the press. The bearings are the cheapest at PEP boys for $80 for the set of "SKF" brand... Hope that sheds some light

 

I did the work myself. Bought the hub assembly for under $90 at O'rielly's. Took the bearings to Pep Boys and had them pressed for $35.

 

I think I won't cheap out on these items.....unless the oems are "SKF" too. Somehow I think they are not.

 

lol yeah since the OEM bearings lasted so long mine were replaced with SKF's around 75k and it now has 120k... no issues so its whatevs

 

Too funny.

 

JJ,

What caused your issue, if it wasn't the bearing?

 

Funny, here's funny.....Funny how Toyota's went to shit when they started being built in North America and are basically having the same problems the the "BIG" 3 have always had. There's you some funny. Laugh it up. Yeah, guess it doesn't matter anymore to throw cheap auto parts parts in them now days. It used to make big difference using cheap parts vs. what came in them from the dealer when they were made overseas. Either way, 70k and having to be concerned with replacing wheel bearings since they aren't serivceable is bullshit, not funny.

 

You said it brother !!! Toyota became interested in bigger profits over building a quality product that people loved.

 

Age.
Inferior part.
Big and/or Offset tires. (The OE bearing is designed for the tire that came on the car. With the bigger wheels/tires comes much more weight on those bearing, so they wear out prematurely)

 

I think the only complain should be applied to 70% of population that is incapable of changing their own oil. If they can not change oil there is no way they will do maintenance on the axle. Hence non serviceable axles...
people call Licensed plumber to replace plunger in their toilet.

 

wow.... so yeah like I said the SKF's will work just great, again the OEM aren't anything to spend $200 more for, for obvious reasons Timken's are really nice, supposably are better than OEM. But the SKF's that are in mine are smooth as SILK!!!

 

Funny thing is... the whole time there was like a vibe sound and for the life of me could not find where it was coming from. I could really feel, hear it when I would turn on pavement, thought it was the bearings going out. I traced back some maintanance I did and realized it started shortly after I put Synthetic Diff oil in the rear, so I got the idea to put dino 75-90 valvoline with the LSD Additive and VAMOO!! FIXED, vibes, stutter gone! so yeah it can be something simple sometimes too

 

How much is the hub with bearing? Any place cheap online?

 

IMO, they are cheaper to complete manufacturing with than seperate bearing and race like the old ones & more expensive labor charges to have it dealt with.........all about more money opportunities for the dealerships and less options for motivated capable people to maintain their own shit without having a full blown service facility of their own.

 

New oems are 115 each and yours were 80, that's 230 instead of 160 not 200 different but yeah money is money these days and no sense feeding caviar to something that is happy with TV dinners so might as well just throw the cheapest thing possible in there.........

 

word yo, TV dinners are bomb

 

I dont think cost is only factor. If person does not maintain its vehicle during the warranty then things will brake and dealership will be forced to fix it.
Everybody know they need to change oil (Ok almost everybody ) but beyond that hard to find person with knowlege what when is needed.
Ha ha just look at number of people complaining about binding in 4wd on dry pavement... That last thread is way to funny