I did my wife's 2006 wheel bearing recently. The rear seal is funny. Has magnets in it for the wheel speed sensor. Problem is that either you can break magnets hammering it in or you can hammer it in too far and you get a esp abs fault and the car drives funny. This happened to me. Lucky I had the other seal for other side which wasn't bad yet so I pulled it off and was more careful with installing. It's a bad design because the seal will hammer flush almost but it is too far then. I think that's what happened to me. I left it about 1/16 inch out. My computer with my wiz manual broke so I couldn't read spec on that but somewhere here or elsewhere I found the info about breaking magnet and hitting seal in to far. I may have broke magnet too.
Other than that simple wheel bearing job. No press needed. I just went by feel and no dial gauge. I hate needing fancy tools for diy simple jobs. Rubs me the wrong way. but I'll try it one day and check my self for fun. so far so good after a 1500 mile drive to florida and back.
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