How to Fix Wheel Bearings in Your Own Car

Are your wheel bearings giving you a little bit of a problem? Well don’t worry, just follow the steps below to find out how to fix the wheel bearings on your car.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. The first thing you want to do is get a good pair of safety glasses for your eyes.

2. Go ahead and jack up the car. Jack the car up high enough so that the wheel is 2 to 3 inches off the ground. Make sure you chuck the wheels opposite of the ones you are working on.

3. Put on some gloves if you don’t like your hands getting dirty. Now loosen the wheel buts. When you loosen the wheel nuts, pull the wheel out of the car. Put the wheel on the side or something to get it out of your way.

4. Remove the brakes. Now that the brakes are removed, remove the brake rotor.

5. Now you need to remove the hub on which the wheel mounts on. There are four bolts. Remove those.

6. The hub comes right out. Remove the end piece of the hub to access the wheel bearings. There’s a special tool called a puller to remove a part of the hub to access the bearings after you remove the end piece. Attach it to the hub and use a socket set to turn it.

7. The bearing assembly comes apart. You now need to cut the race off. Get an air grinder and cut the race off. Get the new bearings; tap the bearings in the wheel bearing assembly. Tighten back the nut to hold the bearings in place.

8. Put the antilock brake wheel back on. Install the hub and retighten all four bolts. Put the brake disc back on. Put your brakes back on. Put your wheel back on and tighten the nuts and lower the car to the ground. That’s it, you are done.

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on 6/16/2009 Replacing your own wheel bearings can be a great way to save money.