Wheel bearing. Prerunner 2000 tacoma

There have been a few users on the site that press the assembly and ship for a reasonable price. They have all used the OEM bearings either Timken or Koyo. I’ve had to replace each side, once. Search for hub bearing press on the site.

05taco4x4 was the last one i purchased from, but that was in 2019…

 

You are referring to gen 2 wheel bearing assembly that bolts in the knuckle. Gen 1 wheel bearing is pressed into the knuckle.
I have heard good reviews from 05taco4x4's work.

 

I went with OEM for everything, knuckles, hubs, bearings, seals, tone rings, spacers. The bearings were recently pressed in by my mechanic using a 20ton machine shop press. My health is preventing me from installing them. Waiting for one of my good days though. Gotta see my cardiologist and ophthalmologist before in a couple weeks.
Did I ever mention that it sucks getting older???

*** UPDATE ***
Forgot to mention...I bought the OEM hubs from the dealership and they have threads on the ends. In all the videos I have seen on YouTube, none of them had these. I had to additionally purchase the large washer nuts AND a special tool to tighten them. Toyota may have made a change to the hubs which caused them to add the washer nuts to prevent the hubs from separating from the knuckles. Just my theory nut the torque spec on the nuts are 203ft lbs.
I'd say someone was doing some CYA-ing. If you need the part numbers let me know. I can look them up as well as the special tool I got from Amazon. The tool has a square hole to provide for a 1/2" torque wrench. About $40 . I gave it to my mechanic as I am hoping never to do the job again for the life of my truck. Same goes for all the other OEM suspension parts I have purchased and installed or will be installed.

 

Prerunner hubs are quite a bit different than 4x4 hubs

 

Treyus- most definitely because of the cv axles

 

The hub locknut is the only way for the wheel bearing to have lateral preload. Take that nut off and you wouldn’t make it 5 miles before the entire wheel hub falls off with the wheel attached. Exact same design as manual hub trucks. ADD trucks use the outer CV joint to serve as the preload for the bearing. Same wheel bearing for all of them.

 

Zip. Is that the same for the 3rd gen 4runner 2wd? When I watched Timmy the Toolmans video his hub did not have the threaded hub. This is why I was puzzled and initially did not know about the nuts. This is an INTERNAL washer nut and not the normal nut on the outside of the hub.

https://parts.olathetoyota.com/search?search_str=Hub+nut

 

Something I found strange about the new design KOYO DU5496-6LFT front wheel bearing is that the bearing itself is still marked with the old -5 number. Same thing with the newer design OEM

$100 Toyota 90369-54002 Bearing

Toyota 90369-54002 FWB (below). When I checked that out with KOYO/JTEKT, they stated that the new design KOYO DU5496-6LFT FWB itself will still be marked with the old -5 bearing number and that the box will be marked as the new design -6LFT bearing (below). KOYO/JTEKT also stated that the same grease was used in both the older and newer design DU5496-5 marked bearings.

 

Damn!!! Plot twist. Good to know.