Changing wheel bearings
 

Is there anything special that I need to change them? I have air tools and the whole kit and caboodle. I know you have to get them pressed on but what about taking them off? I'm assuming they need the same too and not something I can just do since I don't have a press or something I want to try doing and fudging up a 80 dollar bearing. How exactly does the hub come off the knuckle? I know it just doesn't come out on it's own once you pull the axle out. I haven't doesn't this before and it's front driverside of a 99 Acura CL.

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There is how-to's on Honda-Tech, Ive seen them on there before.

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yeah but the pics aren't working. Not to mention that my haynes manual doesn't even really cover it. Bastards! >:(

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I change bearings almost everyday, if u havent done it before i wouldnt without someone who has. They can ber realy bad

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take off your spindles, get bearings, drive to a garage or machine shop with a press, pay .5 labour go home happy ;)

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yup, if u ---- up the nuckle it will cost more then half an hour labour

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then wear gloves O0
lol it is tricky ---- tho

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I don't plan on putting the bearing on myself. I'm having a shop do that but how does the hub come out of the knuckle? I know it just doesn't fall out once you have the axle out and the caliper and rotor off.

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:1

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yeah really the hub is pressed into the bearing and the bearing is pressed into the knuckle.... its super simple to get it all apart, getting the bearing in/out can be tricky though. of course i have an integra not a CL but it cant be that different.

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Well I did it and it wasn't bad at all for my first time. Took me 3 hours total including running to the Hardware store to get a 36mm socket for the damn axle nut. *Note to self* Acura CL 3.0's use a 36mm nut and a not 32 like civics and integras. :X Besides that I took the knuckle and hub to the guy I bought my Z from since he runs a local repair shop and he helps me press out the old bearing and put the new one in all for free. Big ups for ROb's Repair in Neenah WI! :6 Since he(Rob) told me 30 to do it when I called him a week ago my friend gave me the 30 not including the 150 for the labor I got a basically 180 for doing it. Not bad since I had to buy some other stuff to do it like a impact driver to take of the rotor and the 36mm socket so I got those for free. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The bearing I would of never been able to get it out no matter how much I would of pounded on it and would of fucked it up more likely.