Question unit bearing time....

[jopes]

yeah it's that time. got 1 unit bearing going out and a ball joint on the opposite side. I have ordered up all the parts but the studs that hold the bearing assembly to the knuckle. .so my 2 questions are:

1. Has anyone been sucessful in removing the studs and reusing them? seems most people buy new studs.

2. I searched around and I cannot for the life of me find it, but I thought I seen some place where someone found a way to grease these unit bearing assemblies??


I have reviewed the ball joint and unit bearing wiki's as well, but seen nothing there on them.

 

[treyloco]

I believe there is an article on that at www.7point3.com

 

[Frankenstien]

I have for a very long time been greasing mine. What I do is remove the ABS sensor, and using a Turkey basting type syringe, refill the unit as much as I can with Mobile one RED bearing grease. Once I've saturated the unit to best of my ability, I top it off with 75-140 Gear oil. I do this to try and remove as much air as possible. (hot air expands and forces out the oil and grease.) I do this ritual about once every year.. to year and a half. I have 200 K on the truck. The bearings seem to last me about 180K. as it was about that time that I changed both of them due to the fact they were beginning to show some slop.

 

[drmjf]

I did get the studs out & I would not recommend you try it. It took me 2 hours. I had to retread a couple of the studs. I would buy new ones if I had to do it over.

 

[JLDickmon]

yeah, you can remove them, but it's suck a PITA that it's worth the jingle to buy new ones.

I put one in my truck last week (NAPA/SKF) and it came with them.

I robbed the old ones out of the junk hub anyway, and they came in handy; I made a damper tool for an AUDI 4.2L from them and a hunk of inch-and-a-half galvanized pipe.

 

[jopes]

I done all the work this am. took me 6 hours for everything, that includes hunting the tools down for the whole job as well as reusing the studs. They came out pretty darn easy if you ask me.

I didn't have my vise mounted and my 10 year old helped me hold the unit bearing when I removed the studs. Must be I got stupid lucky eh?

drives so much better now, I also took it in for a alignment as it pulled left a touch.

 

[hawkdriver]

I used a pneumatic cut off tool to cut a portion of the bearing away where the studs go thru it. They came out real easy with zero damage.

 

[silverado3500]

Ive done both sides on mine twice now. I never had too much trouble getting the studs out. Just whacked the bearing in the vice, and then double nut the studs and out they come.