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[jibberwobble]

The time has come to get the wheel bearing sorted on the MV6..... woe is me!

I've done one before on my last omega, this is why I'm not wanting to revisit the subject.

Last time I made up a plate with the five wheel stud holes in and a central hole. The plate was bolted to the hub and then the huge slide hammer I made up was attached to the plate and the hub drifted out followed by the outer shell. I had to make/find lots of spacers and bits n bobs along the way as well as the slide hammer. The whole job to about a day and a half of annoying people all the way up the road and proved quite heavy going.

I've put a wanted ad up for a whole arm and searched all over the place on line to try n get one but I'm expecting to have to change the bearing  in the end.

I would take it to a garage but all the local ones are very unconvincing when I ask them how they will go about the job. The trouble there is that I will end up paying for them to learn and have to collect bits together along the way like I've had to and I just havent got the money for that. None of the ones I've asked have done one before and wont quote prior to doing the job so it would be like handing them a blank cheque and not even having faith that they have done it properly.

The garage at the end of my road are friends and I trust them not to deliberately rip me off if you get what I mean and have suggested that if I remove the arm they will have a go at pressing the bearing out and the new one in but I dont think they've taken in to account how awkward it will be to hold the arm and not foul the hub in a standard bench press.

To make things more complicated, I did the last one two years ago and all the stuff I got together is in a box which has disappeared and no doubt lost in the safe place I put it in. I've searched high and low but much has changed round here since then. I will struggle to find enough bits again now I think.

So whilst still weighing up which way to go about the job this time I have a question that may help decide.

Has anyone had any luck pushing the hub out by using a splitter behind the hub and winding the wheel studs in to push against the splitter a little like this guy doing his BMW in this vid (@ 7 mins in) -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_690952&feature=iv&src_vid=wKYL9_4mXRI&v=D4PK1jXhppE
 
Any comments, thoughts, advice most greatfully recieved

[jibberwobble]

Bearing now ordered So I will have to deal with this job and all it's problems.

As above, anyone successfully used the method in the youtube vid to avoid some bashing?

[Lazydocker]

Not tried it myself. I would suggest sticking the new bearing in the freezer for at least 24 hours before hand and make sure you have some heat source on hand too

[jibberwobble]

The last one spent the night in the freezer but still wouldnt slide into a hot arm so ended up winding it in on a fine thread bolt with a spacer to pick up on the outer race.

I'll be freezing this one too just for good luck!

[2woody]

I've got a stack of rear arms if you need one...

[jibberwobble]

Thanks but the job is now done.

I purchased a puller set that in the end made the job very easy

On Tuesday I ordered The OEM FAG bearing from HERE which was promised for Thursday so I got busy doing some homework and on Wednesday ordered THIS, it will also come in handy for the caravan and next omega bearing change amongst other things.

I ordered the puller set at 3:15pm Wednesday and it was at my front door by 11:00am Thursday so very impressed there 

I used the method in the vid (link in first post) to get the hub out. I used an old set of front calliper bolts instead of wheel studs and needed to give the end of the thread a quick clean up with a small file before unwinding them back through the hub to avoid messing up the hub internal threads. Also put some random lumps of ally billet behind the puller and against the heads of the back plate bolts for support. It took about ten minutes of careful winding to get the hub out.

The puller I bought had the rest of the bearing out in a few minutes with ease.



I then had to Dremel (nearly) through the inner bearing shell and whack it with a cold chisel to crack it free then it just fell off.





Once the parts were all cleaned up I was stuck as the bearing had not arrived so I went back to digging the big hole in the garden 





On Friday I waited for the bearing and by mid day I'd had enough and called allgermanparts to find out what was going on. They were apologetic and said it was due to be with me imminently. They knocked off the postage charge for the delay which was nice. Half hour later my bearing showed up! Half an hour after that courtesy of the new puller it was in the arm, no heating or freezing of anything ... I love my puller   

Had to wind the hub back in with its nut using the old inner shell as a spacer then adding another old bearing as an extra spacer once it was most of the way in. This process was nice and easy.

After this it's just a case of reassembling all the other bits and Bobs Jerry's uncle.

I'd say there was about four-five hours labour involved and some of that is just because I like to faf about and make sure I'm happy n look for the tool I put down two minutes ago then lost and repeat and repeat! Very happy to say there was no bashing, banging, hammering or anything at all of that nature and the whole job was straight forward with no complications whoop whoop