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Old 11-28-2006
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Question on Front wheel bearing

I've got a quick question, may be dumb, but am curious to see if its possible to do. Is there any possible way to re-pack the front wheel bearings, one of mine is making a lot of noise, but dont have the money as of now to replace the assembly. Is there a way of repacking them, and possibly just replacing the bearings, or is it truly a non-servicable part?
 
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unfortunately they are definitly non-serviceable... the way they are assembled keeps them from being able to be opened at all. maybe check e-bay to see if theres a cheap one floating around, and worst case senario is if it's bad enough go by a junk yard and pull one from a truck yourself and hopefully they wont charge you hardly anything as they cant garauntee the condition of the part. if its even half decent then it will at least last you until you can get a new unit, and the one you get may still be perfect and have plenty of life.
 
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bingo have to fork over the big bucks another way auto company's are good for them bad for us...
 
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you can re pack them using ur hands put a wad of bearing grese on ur hand and smak the edges of the bearing with ur hand till it comes ou the other side have fun gettn them out tho might take a lil work and make sure u cean everythign off with break cleaner spray
 
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the hub assembly is a non-servicable part. I'm having the same issue. I found them online for 194. but can get it from the dealer for about the same price.
 
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