Front Wheel Bearings Revisited

[jdbubb@ix.netcom.com (Dan Bubb)]

The bearing is pressed into the hub carrier then the hub is pressed into
the bearing.
You can either take the car someplace and have it done.
Or, you can take the hub carrier with hub someplace and have the bearing
pressed in.
Or, you can rent the tool from German auto parts or alot of other places
and press it in yourself on the car so you don't have to do an
alignment.
Or, you can take off the hub carrier and with the use of all sorts of
implements of destruction, pound the crap out of it and replace the
bearing that way.
I think that's a complete list of the options.
Dan

Christopher Grossi wrote:
> 
> Looking to do the front wheel bearing on my 85 8v. Looked at the ETKA cd to
> see what I was up against, looks pretty straight forward except for the
> bearings being pressed. I looked in the message archives for the list and
> found some of you did this yourself. I am confused by the diagram on the
> CD, looks like the bearings go into a housing. I was under the impression
> that they went into the hub and I could just take the hub to someplace and
> have them press the old ones out and the new ones back into the hub. Am I
> over thinking this and confusing myself or do they actually go into the hub
> like I originally thought? Someone for the love of god help me :). Oh and
> luckily for me one on the Jetta is starting to make noise too in the front.
> How nice. I love owning 2 cars. Anywho are they the same on a 92 Jetta GL
> as well?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris Grossi
> 
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