Does the RW outer bearing need to be set by a runout dial as the last step?

Not in this case because the rear wheel bearings are a double row of ball bearings not tapered roller bearings like on the front.

I've put pictures of the rear wheel bearings being changed here =>

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I'm not 100% sure why they specify such a mega torque to the nut on the axle - I'll think about that one.

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Hi Stretch!
Thank You Thank You Thank You for this exellent post!! I'm facing this project on a friend 201 very soon, I'll be referencing your post for guidence!
Cheers!
Chris

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Ahhh I see the thread title has changed - it wasn't vary PC - sorry about that

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



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Note for the unwary.

When you come to fit the clamps



make sure the bit you need to squash isn't obstructing a bolt hole on the inboard side! You need to fit the axle to the axle flange on the differential soon



(Again - don't forget the thread lock on those bolts)

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



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Stretch:

When I did this on my car, I filled the cans with solvent to wash out the grease...and quickly regretted it, because there's no easy way to put fresh grease in. I ended up with a very large gauge needle on a glue syringe and injected grease in as I could, but I think I'll eventually have a problem with it.

I see no need to press the boots on. Mine went on with very little manual persuasion, a little grease and some time.

Interesting that your clamps were too large...the ones that came with my boots were too small. I think mine were Lemfoerder, not sure. You'd think that finding the right clamp would be the easy part, but no.

Ahh good a guinea pig! Please let me know if anything isn't clear - I'll do my best to make good.

Oh dear. I did that just a little bit with my W123 homokinetic axles - not too much but it was enough to cause a whole lot of stamping of feet, swearing and bad behaviour up and down the garden path for a bit...

...it seems like such a good idea at the time - but if you are not careful you always end up with very liquid grease. To make things worse the W123 axle cans start out in life with oil - this has a grease watering effect as well. It isn't easy to be sure that you have enough grease all the way at the back of the can.

I've been traumatised by W123 homokinetic axles a boot gun and so called flex boots - never again - I will not go back to those dark days of frustration

Yet another example of why this seemingly simple job can turn into a 'king nightmare. I still can not believe how bad it was trying to do those sodding W123 ones - at the time I'd have happily paid the two thousand euros or what ever it was at the dealer to buy new axles than go through that again!

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



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as always, very nice writeup Stretch!

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