Re: Rear Wheel Bearing <2>

[trnsfrma@ix.netcom.com (Shawn C. Meze)]

At 03:01 PM 5/28/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I am gonna have to replace a rear wheel bearing on my 87 16v Scirocco
>soon, and need some info on how its done.  I have a chilton manual but
>I don't trust it.  As you all know its disc brakes.  I also might
>replace the front motor mount, any tips?


DOH!! I forgot to mentio that you can just take the races and rotors to any 
machine shop and they will press out the old races and put the new ones in 
for you for a few bucks. 

I also forgot to get into the motor mounts. (Are there motor mounts in the 
:-P  rear?) 

Do you know which mounts are bad?? Probably not, (and probably all of them) 
but if you are to replace them, they're all but one fairly easy to do. 
If your going to replace all of them, you might just want to get the car up 
on some jack stands and use the floor jack under the oil pan to take the 
weight off of the mounts. Then you can easily remove/replace the rear tranny 
mount. Then remove the side tranny and the front mount. You will have to 
have 2 mounts pressed into the MM housings. The passenger side mount and the 
side tranny mount. 
Without a doubt the passenger MM is the biggest bitch to get out of the car. 
Especially if you have all of the stock timming gear covers on place. A 
little patience and work and you can get that one replaced as well.
HTH!


Shawn
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