Wheel Bearings & Hubs Press Service *** OE NSK ***

Installed both of mine today. Used a 3 jaw puller to push the spindles out of the hubs instead of the hammer method, worked great. Bolted the new assemblies up and torqued everything to spec. So far so good!

 

Received parts last Tuesday but took till the weekend to get them in and then another few day to replace the wheel speed sensors that i broke while trying to remove them there was more rust in the front end than i realized when i bought the truck not long ago... and it's an "Arizona" truck.. go figure. but the bearings are great rides smooth and quiet now. Thank you for the quick shipment and great parts.

 

Remember don’t wait replace those wheel bearings. It will cause the abs to kick on and make your pants turn brown, while driving down the highway.

 

Wow, that's ugly. I hope you replaced both inner seals.

 

@dannymodz
@hokiee
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Oh, about everything got replaced, including cv, spindle, wheel sensor, and rotor and pads.

 

PM sent (along with a few blank messages due to operator error)...

 

Well i have to say those make the rust i knocked out of mine look like dust, i was able to scotch brite mine back to mostly clean and grease the surface before re installing but man that had to sound beautiful before it let go and changed the color of your shorts.

 

@092trfe4x45sp
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*** NSK availability update ***​

My distributor was told by NSK's national sales manager that NSK was not expecting the demand for these bearings (obviously) and has decided to expand their manufacturing line in Japan to accommodate- this has stopped production and shifted the availability to December with possible short orders as soon as early November. This expansion should put an end to supply shortages. I will continue to pass info as I receive it.

 

Please keep me informed

 

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Are you up and running again already?

 

@nigelthebadger
@HaysKSFirefighter
@2009TRDOFFRD
@Minimag95
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I can’t do longer studs for a couple more weeks

 

Ok. Thanks

 

Arrived! Despite the post office’s best efforts, the assemblies arrived in perfect shape. Outstanding packaging - seriously, it looked like a dog had chewed the box and it had clearly been dropped more than once. Thanks for the quick turnaround on these. Install tomorrow.

 

OP, you did an excellent job pressing the bearings. I'm totally satisfied. Got the new hubs on and the humming that I was experiencing is totally gone!

BUT i have a couple questions/ concerns about my install that I hope somebody in here could help me out with. First off, are they supposed to be side-specific? I noticed one of the Koyo bearings has "LFT" stamped on it, I assume that means Left?.... but of course, I didnt notice that until I was working on the passenger side and I had completely finished the driver side already. So that one is on my passenger side and I didnt even notice if the other side had a marking on it or not.

Also, is there a tip to getting the CV seal seated fully in the spindle seal? When the old hub was off, I could pull the CV so the seals were mated up perfectly. Even with the new hub on it was seated up well but as soon as I tightened up the 4 hub bolts there was a slight gap (maybe a couple mm's) between the two seals. I took pics so hopefully yall can tell me if this slight gap is normal. Pretty sure the old hubs didnt have any gap at all between those seals. I assumed tightening up the axle nut would close the gap but it only did to a certain point. The gap is exactly the same on both sides and completely consistent around the whole circumference of the axle

Passenger side


Driver side (dont mind the crusty CV lol)

 

Your signature cracked me up