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Is it necessary to replace wheel bearings?
To all, I'm about to embark on a total brake job for the 1991 560SEL, i.e. new rotors, new pads, new brake lines and flush replace the old brake fluid with new fluid and possibly rebuilding all the calipers with rebuild kits. The cars mileage is 175,000. I don't know if the wheel bearings have ever been replaced. I do have new bearing seals and was thinking of repacking the old bearings and putting the car back on the road. I've done some cursory research on the issue and it appears that the acquisition of several specialty tools are required in order to replace the bearings.
So......can I or should I repack the old bearings or should I take this opportunity to replace them? Or, I could take the car to a shop and have them replace the wheel bearings perhaps at less expense than acquiring the various tools required to replace the bearings?
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04-24-2014, 12:51 PM
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