Steve in New Hampshire

Well I completed my rear wheel bearings last weekend and I'm back on the road. Anyone interested in the tool? Used twice (did both sides)...I bought it for $225, will sell for $175 or B.O.

Description: Sir Tools B90-P2 (puller kit), B90-3 (bracket), B90-3J (horseshoe adaptor), and a molded plastic storage case.

This is for '87 + alloy arms.

Cheers,

Steve

User 41221

Where did you buy it from? I bought the same thing last year from Pelican for $152.00, shipped?

Regards,

Steve in New Hampshire

Bought it from Paragon for $225 plus shipping....Pelican get's $249.95 plus shipping now. Guess the price has gone up quite a bit since you bought yours. The $175 would include shipping...which had cost me another $20+.

Steve

User 41221

Wow, thats a lot of inflation in a years time. I'm glad I bought it when I did.

By the way, I wasn't trying to sabotage your sale. I should have probably PM'd you instead, sorry.

Regards,

Skip

Scott, if you go back to the thread from when you bought yours, you'll see that there was a mistake made in pricing which was corrected in short order. Good for you, bad for the rest of us... well, not me

User 41221

Oh, I will have to check that out, I wasn't aware that it was a pricing snafu...

Regards,

Steve in New Hampshire

No problem Scott...does indeed sound like you got the tool deal of the year! Gee, Skip, I could of used one of those!! 8^)

Since noone seems interested in this I'm thinking of two options eBay or perhaps some Toolmaster-like rental program. Would people be interested in renting this? Only "Rennlist Members" of course!! What would be a fair price??

Steve

Charlotte944

That's WAY too much for a bearing puller. A friend of mine cobbled together a nice tool for pulling rear wheel bearings. He used a plumer's pipe reducer, some 3/4" all thread, and spacers from a seal install kit.

Once the stub axel is out you put the all thread with one spacer through the bearing from the inboard side, then the reducer, then another spacer. Put two nuts on the inboard side, and one on the outboard side.

Heat the bearing carrier with a torch, and then "jack" the bearing out.

Bryan

Steve - how did the puller work for you? How hard was the bearing change? I've heard good things about that puller, just wondering if it's as easy to use as they make it sound.

Bryan

Sam Lin

Got any pics?

Sam

Jon Moeller

Steve,
I'm in on the first rental, if you go that route. Would $25 + shipping be fair? I could use it as soon as possible, if you're up for this.

I've thought about doing a similar thing, but haven't purchased the tools, yet. Seems like a good method would be to use PayPal with two transfers. One representing the shipping and rental fee, and the other for the deposit on the tool itself. You can refund the deposit for no cost to the user, I believe. Anyone else have suggestions?

Thanks,
Jon

Steve in New Hampshire

The first side took me four hours...mostly to get all the right tools on the floor and to read the directions 10 times. Plus the tool contents have changed a bit, so Skip's directions need some updating (hint Skip). The other side was done in two hours. It is a very rugged unit...and with the yoke you don't have to take the emergency brake shoes off (which I did on the first side due to dumbness). When I have some time I'll see if I can take Skip's write up and update it...pictures, nah, I was way too greasy and dirty to dare pick up my camera...

P.S.
That does not include the time I spent messing with the CV-joints...two leaked water when I disconnected them - yuck.

Steve

Skip

Skip didn't write it But, yes, it does need to be updated - for now, there is a note on the procedure that says there is a problem and the included instructions should be used. Anyone interested? I wish I had the time...

Joe Jackson

For anyone interested, I bought a set of tools for doing front wheel bearings on FWD cars which I then found could be used to do the 944 rear bearings. All you need is an impact wrench, some sockets, and a big adjustable wrench. Cost me over $300 (well worth it though) and I would be willing to rent the tools out (only the ones necessary, the entire set weighs about 40 lbs.) It's much much nicer than the puller I cobbled together for my first wheel bearing change out. I can take pictures of the tools for those interested and show how it all works.

Steve in New Hampshire

Jon,

I think that sounds like a fair price. Let me know if and when you'd like to do your bearings!

Skip,

I'm up to my butt this week, but maybe next week I can go thru the instructions and do an update...maybe with a couple snapshots of the correct tool configuration.

Cheers,

Steve