Need Help- Bad Wheel Bearing

Dorman is the Harbor Freight of auto parts. Be forewarned.

 

Yes I know. He said he doesn’t have any in stock and is moving so won’t have any for 3 weeks.

 

This is another member who bought it from 05Taco4x4 and isn't installing the hub on his vehicle so he's reselling it.

 

Yes I see that. I was responding to the previous post.

 

Hundred dollars is a bit much per side I don’t know if Toyota replace the whole assembly at once or I think they’ve might press out the old bearing and press a new bearing on using your existing hub. But I just changed the wheel bearings on my 2010 and tried convincing the wife that it was cheaper to buy all of the tools to change the wheel bearings instead of having this stealership do it for you. I bought some of these

$138 Dorman 950-001 Pre-Pressed Hub Assembly - Front Compatible with Select Lexus / Toyota Models (OE FIX)

Dorman 950-001. The Dorman comes with completeaxle seal and oring replacement off of Amazon for $155 apiece.
If you’re going to do this yourself in your driveway you’re going to need:

Jack & Jack stands
Torque wrench that goes to 200ft. Lbs.
A 35mm socket
Bungee cord or something to tie off your brake caliper.
Big flat head screwdriver
Hammer
17mm combination wrench
17mm socket with ratchet

I think this is it there’s like a couple other smaller size sockets but these are the main items.
There is however one specialty tool you’ll need if you’re trying to torque the hub bearing assembly bolts to the correct torque value. It’s called a torque adapter, I found one on the Napa auto parts online for $14.99 but they wanted to charge me $12 extra for shipping so I just made the tool myself.
Or if you’re not worried about torquing and you’re all about the good-and-tight way of life just do it by hand and feel.
The only reason for this torque adapter is because the way the hub assembly is assembled you can’t fit a standard socket on the backside of the bolts to torque it because the hub is in the way.
Hope this helps some

 

Mine was a Northeast truck as well. The easiest thing to do is take an angle grinder and cut the hub so that you can fit an impact socket on. After that turn the hub and each bolt comes off easy. There are vendors on ebay selling oem bearing prepressed. That’s where I got mine.

 

If you're looking for some of the local boys to have some garage space to help you out, ask over here:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/forums/south-east.37/
More specifically:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/south-carolina-bs-and-gossip-thread.411211/

As far as using an extention with a torque wrench, you'll need a little math to get the right torque setting for your wrench based on the length of your adapter. Basically, the length of the adapter will change the required torque. Formula is as such:

T= (t * a)/(a+b)

T = torque wrench setting (unknown at this point)
t = required torque
a = length of torque wrench from center of ratchet to center of handle (because you're applying leverage to the center of the handle and not the extreme end)
b = length of extention from center to center (this works with oddly shaped extentions too such as 'C' shaped and 'S' shaped extentions. You would just measure a straight line from center to center just like you did with the straight extention.)

So for example; lets say your torque wrench is 20 inches long from ratchet to handle and your extention is 6 inches long with a required torque value of 200 ft lbs. Plugging those numbers into the formula:

(200 * 20)/(20+6) =
4000/26 = ~154

So with your 6in extention installed on your torque wrench, youll set your torque wrench to 154 ft lbs to give you your required torque of 200 ft lbs.

If the above doesnt make sense, check this link out with a picture.
https://www.norbar.com/en-gb/Home/Torque-Wrench-Extension-Calculator

-J