wheel bearing woe`s

[landroverkeith]

:?  evening all does anyone know where i can buy a wheel bearing kit from for my disco ? i know ive seen one in LRE but i can`t seem to find it now    decided that im gona change the bearings myself as i cant afford wat the garage want for a single one  :shock: and i need to get it done by sunday too    

cheers keith

[muddyweb]

Paddocks, Mansfield Motors, Your Local dealer, Devon 4x4 ;-)...

They are all fairly common bits.

[Timi]

:?  evening all does anyone know where i can buy a wheel bearing kit from for my disco ? i know ive seen one in LRE but i can`t seem to find it now    decided that im gona change the bearings myself as i cant afford wat the garage want for a single one  :shock: and i need to get it done by sunday too    

cheers keith

If you do find a supplier of a kit they should not be in excess of £30
I bought one from my local motorfactor and found that even with my trade discount 33% the cost was about £41 I went to my local landrover specialist Safari Engineering unfortunately too far from you and he charged me £25 for both the seals the bearings and locking washers. Remeber you will also nee a good quality LHm grease for the bearing before you put them back on.
Timi 8)

[beast5680]

£25 :shock:  i only paid £15 for my last lot

[Xtremeteam]

£8 each plus vat for the bearings & the seals are £2.50 from work

[landroverkeith]

ty guys :) got em for £21 each from mm4x4.com very helpfull chaps so ive ordered 3, a hub spanner, and a set of rear brake pads (should take my wheels off more often  :oops: ) lol

i forgot about the grease though    no probs ill nip over to shelltune on sat morn those guys are like gods theve allllllways got the bits lol

[Range Rover Blues]

If memory serves, the unbranded ones at Paddocks are about £4 a bearing but you want to fit the Timken ones at about £7 a bearing.  Including new oil seals it should cost less than £30 inc postage plus a dolop of grease.  Don't forget a new drive member gasket too.

[landroverkeith]

#-o ok ive got stuck with my bearing now drivers rear is tottaly shot cooked solid to the stub  ](*,)  we bent my hub spanner trying to get the kin thing off i spent £30  :shock:  on a hub socket all the way over in milton keynes we broke 2 breaker bars tried heating it up and using a air gun still no good so now im totally lost ....  :(

if i cut the nut off sumhow i presume i can buy replacement parts but would it be a landrover parts department job ?

and help would be very nice many thanks keith

[seph234]

its not something like a reverse thread is it, i dont know coz ive only done the fronts but just something to check.  joe

[landroverkeith]

no m8 we did the left rear also the same day that came off luvlay was getting a little loose so we changed it

[seph234]

ok no doubt il be doing mine in the near future i hope you manage to get it off.  joe

[Range Rover Blues]

I'm going to suggest drastic surgery, the stub axle is almost certianly b***ered if it's got that hot, as soon as the bearing starts to spins it wrecks the stub, so cut it off.  You need to get to the stub axle mounting bolts and that means the hub must come off to get to them so you may have to scrap the hub too, hopefully you can recover the disk.  Buy a scrap hub and stub axle, the rear hubs should fit the front but not the stubs.

If it was the inner bearing that was stuck you could pull the thing apart but if it's the first one, the outer as it sounds, I think you're fighting a loosing battle.

Anyway, the nuts are common as muck, try a breakers for an axle end though.

[landroverkeith]

thanks ill get onto that