Well my Pt cruiser's front wheel bearing on the passenger side has started to go and i noticed this the other day. I consulted my haynes manual and they say to have this done by a professional to due being too complex. I have researched this issue on pt cruiser forums and this is a typical issue with wheel bearings going prematurely. Yea, i'm at 47K miles. Now majority of those ppl on their are old and have their cars serviced at the dealerships but have been getting knocked up at $400 from the front end. I am NOT paying $400 to have someone press in wheel bearings for me when they are only $53 a bearing.
Does anyone have experience in pressing in/out wheel bearings and know how exactly it needs to be done? I know i have to remove the whole steering knuckle and hub assembly. Then just use a press and punch them out?
Edit- Apparently this is a special type of bearing called a "Press-Fit" It doesn't have a separate bearing and race. Does that make a difference?
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whats funny is you could buy a small press from Northern Tool for around $100. I did some bearings on a Nissan Maxima... wasnt too bad except the first one. I then used parts from the bad bearing as a tool to press out the other one.
On the nissan there were 2 c-clips holding the bearings in iirc.
yea i changed my wheel bearings on my altima an theres 2 snap rings in there that hold it in but u still need to press them out when you take the snap rings out, its just tricky on gettin them flat an nicey nice an findin the right tool to use to press them in and out...but not awefully hard
Take it out and go to Carquest, they have machine shops. Other parts jobbers may as well.
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Typical issue? I can't remember ever having changed, or ever having seen anyone else change a wheel bearing on one of those in my 3 years with Chrysler.... To the point where I honestly don't even know what they look like or how to get them out... I'm guessing they're similar to Vdub bearings, in which case you just pull the whole knuckle, take it to a press and punch the suckers out. What you need is a cup or thick walled piece of tubing that will hit only the outer race of the bearing, and then a thick piece of steel stock to bridge that, for the press to engage. If that turns out to be totally wrong I apologize, but like I said, I've never done one or seen one done. I actually thought that pretty much anything past 1995, with the exception of the trucks and ram vans, was using a bolt-in hub that had the bearing preinstalled and not available separated.
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