hello, been a while!!

needing to replace the half shaft bearings on my 120, g reg, its one of the few things i've not ever done on my rwd skoda's.

sounds fairly straight foward but is there any must do's or any recomended procedures.

<<edit : the car has the halftshaft assembly from my 74 as the 120 one snapped a while back>>

looking in the haynnes manual it seems a case of stripping the drum etc from the outer end, pressing the shaft back, pulling it foward to get a puller on the bearing and popping it off, the main Q there is the refitting of the bearing, what stops the half shaft pushing bak into the casing / transaxle (procedure with it still in the car.

or is it a case of removing the half shaft from the car to do it

what specialist tools or whats the best puller / press to get / use for the job

i do have my own epic hub puller and acess to a hydraulic press at work

also, anyone know if or where i can get a new floor pan for an S100, started resto on my 74 saloon at last

it would probably benifit from a roof skin too.

Edited 12 June, 201313 yr by wambobby

Is it the bearing behind the drum, best to pull it out using extractor or skoda bearing puller, have you got a hub puller, where are you..

PM sent.

the noise turned out to be the speedo cable grinding away in the tranny, (Leave it !!!), after a few days of the noise i was becomming less convinced it was the bearing as i havent had any go within the milage of the axles, it always sounded like it might just be a seal or something stuck in the drum, had a brain wave and reversed the car up a ways then went foward and it faded right away, oh and the speedo had stopped working, took a week to realise that !!

 

who uses a speedo on an estelle? lol

 

thanks for the personal massage Paul