Front Wheel Bearings Revisited

[scirocco_88_16v@hotmail.com (Brian Wagner)]

Different bearing sizes on the Jetta (72mm) Scirocco (64mm). It is a very 
simple procedure.

Take it to a shop the has a press, first have them press out the hub ( the 
inner bearing race will come out with it) remove the race from the hub.

Remove both inner and outer cir-clips and press out the remainder of the 
bearing.

Install new cir-clip on the outboard side, then grease the bearing outercase 
and press the bearing until seated on the cir-clip.

Install the inner cir-clip, and then grease the hub shaft that goes into the 
bearing.

This is the tricky part set the hub on the press hub shaft up and center the 
freshly pressed carrier assembly on it and press it together (making sure 
you press on the race otherwise you will pop the race out).

Really simple and it mister Patrick Bureau had his tech note down I could 
point you to some pics.

I am doing it next week on mine and did it just recently on my Jetta get 
your bearing kits from www.gapa.com $28 a kit per side for the roc.

HTH

Brian

>From: Christopher Grossi <cgrossi@dwc.edu>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Front Wheel Bearings Revisited
>Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:49:08 -0500
>
>
>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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