Front wheel bearing fit

[johnymd]

Teflon lined sock may help even more as the foot to sock friction should be less than the sock to shoe. This is purely based on theory though so I’ll try to carry out some real world testing to verify the effectiveness.

 

[AD240Z]

Thanks Gents - I think they are a bit tight and just wanted to x2 check i wasnt going to force on and get stuck . Ill fiddle around when i can next .


On the other advice - I stuck my socks into my shoes and my undercrackers into my trousers and then sellotaped the lot together into a lower half all in one combo. I saved literally seconds each week getting dressed.
Sadly due to the liberal amounts of grease i was using on the bearings and a vicious cough/fart combo - i ended up semi naked in the garage covered in grease.

I'm sure the police will accept a print out of this forum as a cast iron alibi ...........

 

[Albrecht]

The way I did it was by sliding the seal and inner roller bearing onto the spindle first, the roller bearing can be a tight fit so some patience and fiddling will be required.

So you could install the seal and bearing on the spindle first then pull the hub onto the bearing with the nut.

To be serious for a moment (bear with me...), I still cannot see how this can work properly.

The seal needs to be driven down - squarely - quite a long way into the hub casting, according to the factory instructions. If you are relying on the spindle/strut casting to push the seal into the hub, then what is actually pushing it in and how far will it actually go in?

It seems to me that you'll be left with a hub seal that has not been driven in far enough (and can therefore 'cock' a little) and it may well come into rotational contact with whatever part of the static assembly was being relied upon to drive it in (?) when the car is in use.

Seal failure/early bearing failure seems likely.

 

[AD240Z]

To be serious for a moment (bear with me...), I still cannot see how this can work properly.

The seal needs to be driven down - squarely - quite a long way into the hub casting, according to the factory instructions. If you are relying on the spindle/strut casting to push the seal into the hub, then what is actually pushing it in and how far will it actually go in?

It seems to me that you'll be left with a hub seal that has not been driven in far enough (and can therefore 'cock' a little) and it may well come into rotational contact with whatever part of the static assembly was being relied upon to drive it in (?) when the car is in use.

Seal failure/early bearing failure seems likely.

I’m not at home to look but that does sound a possibility.

The seal does push in to place quite easily , but it needs to be square and it ‘snaps ‘ in to the recessed casting on in the hub holding it in place.

Not sure how much the seal could move once the hub is in place - but I guess it fixes in place for a reason.

 

[Albrecht]

Front hub bearing/seal reference photos:

 

[AD240Z]

Thanks Albrecht

Everything’s looking ok - though not quite as clean as your pics.

I’ll take a step back and have another look.

 

[AD240Z]

Sorted it.

Slipped on eventually after a bit of spindle prep with very fine wet and dry..........