In the middle of the process of replacing front bads/rotors/bearings. No failures involved here...just doing a routine brake job and decided to replace the bearings since I have no idea how old they are.

Everything was moving along nicely until going to remove the old bearings. Finally pounded them out.

Next, where I'm stuck, is getting the bearing races out. I don't see them budging. I need to car ready to drive tomorrow and really need to get something done ASAP.

Question...can I safely re-use the old bearing races?? I realize that this isn't recommended, but how big of a No-No is this?

Also, I have already mounted the new bearings (with old races) and got the ABS carrier mounted to the new rotor. I went to mount the new rotor assembly on the spindle but it seems that it stops about an inch or so short.

I took another inner bearing and slid in on the spindle all by itself. It stops short to. It almost makes to the top the the tapered part of the spindle that then doesn't go any farther, by hand. Is this normal? Are you suppose to lighten pound the rotor the rest of the way on??

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1985 300SD - 'Grace' (198K mi.)
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