Pressing Front Wheel Bearing Out and In With Wheel Bearing Housing Installed
Pressing Front Wheel Bearing Out and In with Wheel Bearing Housing Installed
Special tools, testers and auxiliary items required:
- Thrust piece 40-105
- Hub puller 3283
- Collar F/Wheel Brg. Inner Race 3423
- Engine/transmission jack V.A.G 1383 A with universal transmission support V.A.G 1359/2
- - 2 - Puller Kukko 18/0
Special tools, testers and auxiliary items required:
- Foot pump with high pressure hose V.A.G 1389 A/1
If there is a hand pump V.A.G 1389/1 available it can also be modified for use as a foot pump.
To do so, use conversion kit V.A.G 1389/4.
Special tools, testers and auxiliary items required
Wheel bearing tool V.A.G 1459 B:
- Hollow piston cylinder HKZ-15 with thrust piece E-0-204-T hydraulic
- Tie bolt E-0-217+218
- Special nut E-8-214
- Thrust piece E-5
- Thrust piece E-10
- Thrust sleeve E-13-1
- Pressure bolt E-15
- Thrust sleeve E-65-1
Supplementary set V.A.G 1459 B/2:
- Bell E-40
Removing
- Lift vehicle enough that the front axle is no longer burdened.
- Remove 12-point nut.
- Raise vehicle to installation height.
- Remove wheel.
- Remove brake carrier with brake caliper or brake caliper and hang on body with tie wire.
- Mark installation position of bolts - arrows - for ball joint - 1 - on control arm - 2 -.
- Mark installation position of ball joint - 1 - to control arm - 2 -.
- Press out drive axle.
Note: Be sure there is sufficient room when pulling out drive axle.
- Pull out wheel bearing housing with ball joint from control arm.
- Take drive axle out of wheel bearing housing and tie up.
- Drive axle must not hang down!
- Otherwise inner joint is damaged by excessive bending.
- Remove Phillips-head screw for brake disc and remove brake disc.
- Remove cover plate.
- Remove coupling rod from control arm.
- Detach wire for speed sensor from suspension strut.
CAUTION: Place engine/transmission jack V.A.G 1383 A underneath (danger of accident if parts fall off when ejecting wheel hub and wheel bearing).
Pulling out wheel hub
- Insert pressure bolts - 1 - into wheel bearing housing.
- Assemble bell - 2 -, hollow piston cylinder - 3 - with tie bolt and special nut - 4 -.
- Pull out wheel hub while holding device securely.
1 - Pressure bolt E-15
2 - Bell E-40
3 - Hollow piston cylinder HKZ-15
4 - Special nut E-8-214 and tie bolt
5 - High pressure hose with quick-release
Pulling out wheel bearing
- Remove securing ring.
- Assemble thrust piece - 1 - with collar to wheel bearing, thrust sleeve - 2 - with four stepped inside diameters to wheel bearing housing, hollow piston cylinder - 3 - with tie bolt and special nut - 4 -.
- Pull out wheel bearing by actuating pump.
1 - Thrust piece E-5
2 - Thrust sleeve E-65-1
3 - Hollow piston cylinder HKZ-15
4 - Special nut E-8-214 and tie bolt
Pull bearing inner race off hub
Pressing in wheel bearing
- Clean hole of wheel bearing housing.
- Coat entire surface with Molykote grease.
- Molykote grease G 052 723 A2
- Use grease packet from repair kit
- Put wheel bearing - 1 -, pressure piece - 2 - (put collar into bearing), and hollow piston cylinder - 3 - with tie bolt on wheel bearing housing.
- From inside, assemble pressure piece - 4 - with wide collar to wheel bearing housing and special nut - 5 -.
- Press in wheel bearing by actuating pump.
- Insert securing ring with needle-nose pliers.
1 - Wheel bearing
2 - Thrust piece E-13-1
3 - Hollow piston cylinder HKZ-15
4 - Thrust piece E-10
5 - Special nut E-8-214 and tie bolt
Pressing in wheel hub
- Put wheel hub - 1- and hollow piston cylinder - 2 - with tie bolt onto wheel bearing.
- From inside, assemble special nut - 4 - and pressure piece - 3 - with collar to special nut.
- Press in wheel hub by actuating pump.
1 - Wheel hub
2 - Hollow piston cylinder HKZ-15
3 - Thrust piece E-5
4 - Special nut E-8-214 and tie bolt
- Installation is in reverse order of removal. Note the following:
- Tighten bolts for control arm and ball joint on to old marks.
- Install wheel and tighten.