Rear wheel bearing - am I missing something?
08-21-2005, 02:36 PM
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Rear wheel bearing - am I missing something?
I am currently endeavouring to change the offside rear wheel bearing
Clarkes Garage suggested that you dont need to remove the trailing arm to get the half shaft off.
You bl**dy well do as far as I am concerned as the gearbox oil cooler stops the transaxle end of the shaft dropping down and the gap between the aluminium cylinder against the spare wheel well (fuel filter?) and the gearbox oil cooler coil stops you lifting it up.
Or am I wrong?
Anyone else changed a rear offside wheel bearing on a 1988+ turbo?
Clarkes Garage suggested that you dont need to remove the trailing arm to get the half shaft off.
You bl**dy well do as far as I am concerned as the gearbox oil cooler stops the transaxle end of the shaft dropping down and the gap between the aluminium cylinder against the spare wheel well (fuel filter?) and the gearbox oil cooler coil stops you lifting it up.
Or am I wrong?
Anyone else changed a rear offside wheel bearing on a 1988+ turbo?
08-21-2005, 04:12 PM
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pull the allan bolts off the outside portion of the axel connecting it to the spline hub. Then itll drop right out and then pull the splined hub out of the bearing and wala.
08-21-2005, 04:47 PM
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Getting the half shaft out with an oil cooler tranny is a bit difficult. You have to slide the transmission end of the half-shaft upward and towards the front of the car, almost to the very top of the tranny. That should buy you enough room to slide wheel bearing end downward, and then the tranny end follows. Took me a little while to figure this out as well, but I had the luxury of the car being on a lift.
It is possible, keep at it.
It is possible, keep at it.