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Replacing front wheel bearing

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Offline Digger

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Re: Replacing front wheel bearing
« Reply #15 on: February 29, 2012, 10:52:50 PM »
To be honest, I don't know exactly what vehicle it was for or what year. I just saw it on the tool rack in the store and thought to myself that it looked close enough that I bet I could make it work. It was less than $20. I had the lock ring in my pocket at the time and it lined up really closely so that it was clear all I had to do was round the posts to fit the holes...
Had a cool sig pic till I changed the text... sigh...
90 Tracker: "Silver", 2" BL, 1-1/2" Coil Spacers, Strut mount flip, Calmini Header, Winch, 31" Swamper radials, Sold.
98 Suzuki X-90: Calmini 2" Sus, 1-1/4" whl spcrs, 2" Exhaust, Cobra Safari Bar, Neon, Sold.
96 Suzuki X-90: Mostly stock daily driver(for now)

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Offline gravity_storm

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Re: Replacing front wheel bearing
« Reply #16 on: March 14, 2012, 06:38:44 PM »
Well, I finally got it back together last Saturday. I resurected my brother's old press (took a new 20 ton bottle jack). I heated the hub and froze the race and they went together without issue. I built my own socket to tighten the nut. It is without a doubt the sorriest piece of fab work I have ever done, in fact I hid it so that noone could see it but it worked.

My attempt at the 4 door brake conversion failed. The bracket that comes on the fully loaded 4 door caliper was too thick to clear the rotor. The 2 door bracket is probably between an eigth and three sixteenths thinner and fits just fine. I was terribly disapointed but at least I never disconnected the lines from the old calipers so no need to bleed the brakes. It saved me a chunk of change as well. Still very disapointed.

Once again, thanks to all for the advice, you guys rock.

gravity_storm
1996 Sidekick, 1.5" homegrown body lift, 2" Digger suspension lift, home made snorkle, front skid