All right, so anyone looking to do this kind of work on their own, I am here to tell ya its not to bad to do , so long as you have some big sockets and a breaker bar, otherwise a simple tool box is all you need to get this done, and save yourself hundreds of dollars in the process. The right one took me several hours to do, but the second one took about an hour is all. As far as diagnosing which bearing may be out? The bearing making the noise will be the one "silenced" under a load, meaning if the weight shift pushing on the bearing stops making the noise, this will be the one that is bad. (left turn, right wheel, right turn left wheel) I found this out by trial and error, so now I have two fresh hubs costing me only about 250 bucks and a saturdays worth of work. 3 Bolts on the back of the hub, remove the caliper, and axle nut and simply hammer the old one off. This was why the first one took me longer, (among other things like not having the right size allen key for the caliper) but I usually dont like hitting things very hard in fear of causing more damage, but get past the fact that the hub is on there pretty good and Pound that thing off as hard as neccesary and it should come off ok. considering one shop was wanting over 700 bucks for ONE, Id say i came out pretty good for 250, having two brand new ones..

 

So I hope you fixed the issue?

 

yep, its all fixed up and rolls like a champ, Im glad I got them both changed out at one time , figuring its only a matter of time before the other one goes bad too. so yep Its a done deal, did it myself and saved a boat load of money here.

 

Nice.....

 

I need to replace my wheel bearing on my 2002 D 4.7L 4x4 with antilock brakes..

Can someone please tell me what size socket I need for the Axle nut??

 

Should be 35mm. Make sure you have a LONG piece of pipe to put on the breaker bar 'cause those nuts are TIGHT!

Bob

 

+1

Get about a 8+ foot cheater bar on the end of a 1/2 inch or better breaker bar and put you back into it. They are regular threads so righty tighty, lefty loosey. I always break them loose with the tire on the ground just to break it loose, just make sure you jack it up before continuing any further.

 

Or get your 2 ton floorjack pushing up on your breaker bar, when it starts to bend, hammer on your socket, it will break loose, no drama.

 

Thanks for your help guy's..

 

neilb<----- I forgot about that one.