renault wheel bearings

Do not know about the rear but the front bearings require a press to remove and replace them. Two hours a side and a straight forward job with the right tools, but then - what isn't?

Pete

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Wot! Just for wheel bearings? Grief. If I had a press I could do my Montego ones in about a quarter of that.

Same with the rears, and you really do NEED a substantial hydraulic press.

IMO it's a garage job due to the force needed to push the new bearing in (it's a one piece unit containing both inner and outer).

Does anyone else think that modern designs are deliberately making it harder for the home mechanic so we will admit defeat and give the car to the garage? As the above message suggests? If like me you think "YES" it's bloody annoying eh? takes away our liberty etc etc.

There is nothing to stop you buying a half decent hydraulic press....

a large size vice will do, hardly rocket science.

mrcheerful

Sometimes. The guage has hit 9Tonnes pushing the bearings out the front of my A6. Although 10lb sledgehammers aren't bad if you're stuck.

In your dreams man....

Have you ever done Laguna wheel bearings, I very much doubt it judging by your remark above.

First you need to get out the old one...

I have changed 100's of wheel bearings on most types of vehicle including renault (spit) A good selection of old bearings and bits of tube, sockets etc can get any bearing out without difficulty. The vice I use is a record

8 inch type and has no difficulty in moving bearings especially after a little judicious use of heat. It is also big enough to break tyre beads etc. etc.

mrcheerful

Bodging bastard.

Use a press, a vice is not a press, never has been and never will be.

One day you might just learn why, hopefully you won't have part of a vice stuck in your head....

I have a press too, but can't be bothered to get it out and set it up, the vice is always there and ready for action. A vice is a device to apply pressure to the two jaws, no real difference to a press and as long as you only use the standard tightening arm there is no significant danger.

mrcheerful

thanks for all the replies,

I didnt realise there was so much to it.

I will get it down a garage as it sounds a bit complex for me plus i dont have the correct tools for the job

thanks again

No it is not, it's is for HOLDING, nothing more and nothing less.

no real difference to a press and as long as you

That is quite simply wrong, no vice will excert the forces that a press can unless it is forced.

Curses, for the last 30 years I have used vices for all sorts of illegal operations.

mrcheerful

Yes you have, as I said (and especially as you say you have a press) you are nothing but a bodger....

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We don't need to know about your nasty little vices!

Obviously you're not an engineer. Mike.

Well you're certainly not one if you think a vice is a press...