Hi so as some of you know ive also been helping a friend on his car short story he had a o/s cv joint blown it now turns out the wheel bearing is also shot.

Ive been round with my gen2 bearing removal tool but despite using this and also a large breaker bar the bearing refuses to crack so it can move and be removed and we are worried about causing damage.

I came across this part and wondered if this might be best way forward to replace the knuckle joint and just press in the new wheel bearing is this the only part we would need to replace ???

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184068147601

Chisel and lump hammer and a few good wallops will shock it loose. I am assuming the circlip has been removed?

What car is it that your friend has? That link seems to show the type with bolt-on carriers rather than the integrated ones?

 

Ignore that about the carriers, the last couple of photos show I was just looking at it wrong.

Edited 31 July, 20214 yr by Wino

Yeah I've posted wrong link he also has an mpi like mine only diffence is its a 2002. 

No, the link's probably OK, see my edit above.

 

When you've got it under a lot of pull with the Gen2 tool, then give it a whack from behind as Paul suggests.  Not sure where there's any such circlip on a mk1 Fabia though.

Edited 31 July, 20214 yr by Wino

Will try it im not aware of any circlip either.

Ive even had the blow torch on the housing trying to heat it up to expand it.

I think you'll be OK with the combination of the hard pull from the tooling plus a hammer-blow to shock it free.  

will let you know going to try again in a bit we are both knackered from trying it getting way to old for this 

Make sure you've definitely got the right size disc on the far end of the Gen2 arrangement, smaller one for extraction, bigger one for refitting!

11 hours ago, paulkennedy said:

I am assuming the circlip has been removed?

 

There isn't one. The bearing has a locking springy thing attached to it....

 

It finally came off with the heat gun me pulling on a scaffold bar over the breaker bar my mate on a pipe wrench on the back nut and his sister tapping eith a hammer not exactly the easiest one I've helped with.

Tried mine tonight but the bearing wouldn't budge. Then the rear nut departed the rod of the puller and that was the end of that. 

 

Also encountered the dreaded rusted in ABS sensor so that was promptly destroyed with a cold chisel. The bolt was also well rusted and seized in but the destruction of the sensor helped with that too.

 

So I'll have to wait for a new puller before I can give it a go again.

I had to order a new complete hub assembly for my buddies car the one side the bearing won't come out and now bizarrely the puller now will not loosen back off so he currently has a useless hub with the expensive puller stuck on it lost for what to do we've had a breaker bar and pipe on it but won't budge should have just finished on the side we did.

Edited 23 August, 20214 yr by Stewartasb

I am starting to wish I'd just gotten a hub. I will be getting one for the other side if/when the bearing fails as one of the threads in the caliper carrier lugs have stripped. Although that might never happen as the bearing was apparently changed not long ago.