Glad you finally got the bugger out..Glad for your success...

 

I agree with the 20 ton press. I had mine done in no time using the press. I tried both my slide hammers and nothing. The press did it.

 

^Did you have to take the entire trailing arm out of the car?

I've had easy ones and difficult ones, but eventually the slide hammer always works. The hub adapter has to be bolted on tightly, and you have to have some decent muscle and give it all you've got.

The old bearing always comes apart when I do it, it's inevitable.

 

I left the trailing arm in. Eventually it was a combination of heat from my MAPP torch and beating the everloving crap out of it with the slide hammer that pulled the hub out.

Strangely, it was very easy to remove the inner race from the hub after I got the hub out.

I'm just glad it's done. Refurbishing the rear suspension has got to be the worst job on the 944, period.

 

i just stare at the wheel and flex these guns and the bearing comes shooting out

I take it you've never replaced the brake booster, then.

 

No, but it's on my list to get to eventually. How much worse can it be than replacing the spring plate bushings, trailing arm bushings, spring plate mounts, re-indexing the torsion bars, and replacing the rear wheel bearings?

 

Are you going with SKF or *** bearings?

Is your oven big enough for the trailing arm? Heat makes the job easier.

 

i did all that minus the wheel bearings over christmas weekend last year.
i'd rather do it again than have to replace my brake booster again.

 

Ugh. Mine's working fine but I am rebuilding or replacing basically everything rubber and I'd like to have all "new" brakes just for piece of mind. Maybe I will hold off until it actually gives me problems.

 

Brake booster? At least on the NA, there's room around the MC to take that off pretty easily. On the turbo (or worse, 968), I'd need some 80's Arnold guns to scare that thing out of place.

My most dreaded jobs: TT rebuild, hatch rebuild, and absolutely the worst, pulling the carpet and cleaning all of the glue off the floor on a later car.

 

04 Box S rear bearings are the best replacement part. Cheaper, plentiful and last longer. It's a better designed bearing.

 

Are those the same bearing?? Will they still fit an early 944? Why are they better designed/manufactured?

 

I did the carpet/glue thing at the same time as the rear suspension refresh. It was pretty terrible.