AirCoolBill

Some final comments to my earlier posts. The whine is gone after replacing the rear bearing and axle. The bearing was bad and the cause of the whine. The job went without complication in part due to the care conponents had been assembled with in particular the antisieze. The only part of the job that was a bit fussy was starting the new bearing into the bore straight.

I did spring for the Pelican hub/bearing puller tools. They made the job easy and are well designed. The other tools I employed were a bearing splitter/puller, 3/4" breaker bar/extension/socket, 10' piece of pipe, torque wrench, jack stand to support the extension and my 200#s to torque the axle nut.

I appreciate all the posts on the subject, I was well informed when I started the job and likely avoided mistakes.

ivangene

not so bad is it....thought a little nervous when you start putting that new bearing in...and remembering to put the parking brake assy on BEFORE the hub

rusnak

That sounds exactly like the way I replaced mine. I did heat the trailing arm to around 200 to 250, and froze the bearing in order to start the bearing easily. The puller by Sir Tools allows you to use it to press the bearing back in. Literally 5 mins.

ivangene

5 minutes...I think my bearing went in in 3 seconds and I was nervous the whole time!!!

Heat/freeze technique