Rear wheel bearing replacement.

[DEADZONER1]

Any idea on how long it "should" take??
on an 85 eta
TIA

[DEADZONER1]

BUMP

[Dominick]

i hear ppl say unless you are really good, you should have someone else do it.

[AdamF 88iS]

A good mechanic with a lift and the correct special tools should be able to do it in a couple hours or less. If you're doing it in your driveway without the right tools, I think you'll be lucky if you can do it at all.

[Kilomph]

wow, is it really that hard? What if you bought the $250 Rear Wheel Bearing Tool?

[PrinceE30]

I've heard the rear bearing is impossible without the special tool.

I'm doing my front now, and I'm stuck on getting the collar nut off (super tight)...

-Prince

[Brian 89 325i]

Ive done it twice. Its not worth it. Just take it to someone. OR buy the tool. The hardest part is getting the bearing out. I ended up destroying the bearing and dremeling a notch in the outer race to put the punch against. Putting it back togeather is pretty easy, i just made a tool to press the hub back into the bearing. Not too hard, Just a couple of nuts, washers, and a short piece of threaded rod. But seriously, just take it to someone.

Brian

[DarkWing6]

I did this in ~2 hours with the help of a couple machanics at the dealership that I work at. They didn't have any special wheelbearing tool or anything, but the compressor and lift really helped. Just a warning.....if you are doing the one on the passenger side don't have a full tank of gas. I spilled 5 gallons of gas because we had to disconnect the line to get the rear control arm off.

[AdamF 88iS]

I did this in ~2 hours with the help of a couple machanics at the dealership that I work at. They didn't have any special wheelbearing tool or anything, but the compressor and lift really helped. Just a warning.....if you are doing the one on the passenger side don't have a full tank of gas. I spilled 5 gallons of gas because we had to disconnect the line to get the rear control arm off.

If you have the right tool you dont need to take the arm off at all. Thats the problem with taking E30s to dealer, none of the newer techs know anything about the older cars. It's blind leading the blind.,

[DarkWing6]

I did this in ~2 hours with the help of a couple machanics at the dealership that I work at. They didn't have any special wheelbearing tool or anything, but the compressor and lift really helped. Just a warning.....if you are doing the one on the passenger side don't have a full tank of gas. I spilled 5 gallons of gas because we had to disconnect the line to get the rear control arm off.

If you have the right tool you dont need to take the arm off at all. Thats the problem with taking E30s to dealer, none of the newer techs know anything about the older cars. It's blind leading the blind.,

I work at a VW dealership, so they probably wouldn't have a BMW tool.

[Kilomph]

I did this in ~2 hours with the help of a couple machanics at the dealership that I work at. They didn't have any special wheelbearing tool or anything, but the compressor and lift really helped. Just a warning.....if you are doing the one on the passenger side don't have a full tank of gas. I spilled 5 gallons of gas because we had to disconnect the line to get the rear control arm off.

If you have the right tool you dont need to take the arm off at all. Thats the problem with taking E30s to dealer, none of the newer techs know anything about the older cars. It's blind leading the blind.,

So your saying that $250 tool will allow me to do the job without taking the rear arm off? I don't see why you people are so against that.... you use it once, and it pays for itself. The opposite bearing will surely go out close to this one. Just find friend with an E30/36 or whatever else this tool will apply to and split the costs...

[e30325ic]

I just did both rear bearing on my sons car a few weeks ago. It wasnt easy. Getting them out was hard. I made the tooling to reinstall them in the hubs. With the right tools it went togeter with out too much trouble. It you dont have the tooling take it to someone that does.

[DarkWing6]

taking the rear arm off is not that hard