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Wheel bearings

  • 25-03-2009 12:00pm
    #1
    richfly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭


    Hi guys can anyone tell me how to change the wheel bearings on a 1999 opel corsa and is it difficult?


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  • #2
    Darragh29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,097 ✭✭✭Darragh29


    richfly wrote: »
    Hi guys can anyone tell me how to change the wheel bearings on a 1999 opel corsa and is it difficult?

    Front or rear?


  • #3
    richfly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭richfly


    Front


  • #4
    Darragh29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,097 ✭✭✭Darragh29


    Just off the top of my head, probably around 200-300 Euro for both. There's probably an hours labour for each bearing and parts ballpark around 40-60 Euro for each side.


  • #5
    richfly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭richfly


    I know how much it will cost but can anyone tell how to change wheel bearing.


  • #6
    sundodger5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭sundodger5


    Not something to take on if you have no experience. backs ok fronts no.
    you need to take off shox driveshaft trackrod wishbone.
    take out the old bearing (brute force and ignorance) and then press the new bearing into place.
    the bearings are an interference fit and hammring them back in is not really the way to go.


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  • #7
    Darragh29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,097 ✭✭✭Darragh29


    richfly wrote: »
    I know how much it will cost but can anyone tell how to change wheel bearing.

    You need a hydraulic press OP and other tools. Not worth the hassle unless you are planning on building up a workshop in your garage or shed.


  • #8
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    For deffo dont even attempt to try it if u dont have access to a hydraulic press to remove/replace bearing from the hub.If you are competent enough and you can get get a second hand Hub from a breakers and replace the whole hub but there is no gaurantee that the bearing is in any better state then the one you have repalced.And if you are doing this in your driving and get stuck you will need to get a mecchy out to bail you out.


  • #9
    thethedev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 300 ✭✭thethedev


    Pfft! Hydraulic press:rolleyes:

    A block of timber and a sledge will do the same job.:D
    Or have the car next to a solid object like a wall and use a bottle-jack as your press.

    I could go on all night describing different methods which vary in there complexities. Some use ratchet straps others involve another vehicle with a pulley system on a gantry above it, as the this vehicle moves forward it pushes the bearing in while at the same using the pulleys on the gantry to pull the corsa towards it................


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