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Originally Posted by Bernhardt
necro-ing a bit of an old thread here. Haven't worked on the vehicle due to rain(if you live in central california you know what I'm talking about) and a shoulder issue until now.
got the drive shaft out(by removing the outer wheel assy, along with the troublesome bolts, which came out nice and easy once the drive shaft was out.
Now for a new issue: It seems the wheel carrier, which I forgot to remove before I took out the driveshaft due to pre-occupation with the stripped bolt heads, doesn't want to be tapped out of the bearing. Anybody got any ideas other than loosely assembling it all again and using a gear puller to get it out? I'm guessing this bearing is original from the looks of it, so it's had a good long time to rust/contact weld.
The kroil has had no effect that I can tell so far....
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The hub itself is NOT going to be "tapped out" it is pressed into place with an interference fit. Sometimes even the tool designed for R&R will struggle
with separating things. The bearing is destroyed when pulling the hub out of it, then usually a race from the bearing is cut off the hub. The remains of the bearing are removed after removing the large C-clip from its groove.
Assuming you have the wheel carrier off the car you'll need to get to a real press at a machine shop or someplace with such a piece of equipment.
Sometimes the new bearing can be installed by a pearson that understands what they are doing. But someone that doesn't understand exactly what they are working with and trying to accomplish can just as easily destroy the new bearing by failing to push only on the parts of the bearing and hub that prevent damage.
If you go the slide hammer route you'll need the biggest slide hammer you can get 10 pounds! And even with that you'll be pounding it quite a bit you'll need to secure the work in a vice or something in order to pull against it.
To get an idea the way some people get this job done you can search YouTube for SIR Tools BM-90, there's a video of someone getting a 201 car rear bearing done.