beck_corsa
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Anyone know how much it will roughly cost me to get new wheel bearings in both rear wheels of my Corsa b 1998?
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Scotty C
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Just the wheel bearings or the whole job?
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beck_corsa
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The whole job bearings and fitting.
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scottyp1989
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shouldnt be a lot its only about a 10 min job for either side
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Scotty C
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Garage will charge an hour - hour 1/2 and the bearings will be about £20
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Steve
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how in gods name can you do wheel bearings 10 mins a side, dont be ridiculous.
maybe if you are a cowboy and dont bother changing the collars or greasing up the bearings properly.
you are probs looking at an hours labour plus parts
[Edited on 16-01-2011 by Steve]
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scottyp1989
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once the castle nut is off they just slide out and new ones in, ye garage will probly charge you an hour labour, dosent mean it takes an hour does it
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Steve
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your meant to take the drum off and knock the collars out and replace with the ones in the kit, unless its different on corsas, they should be one cone bearing at front and back of the drum, and a collar each side. Thats if your not hampered with an abs tone wheel at the back. Youve also got the seal on the rear cone to replace aswell
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JaffaTB
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i bought some off ebay for about 15 quid a pair, the company sent me 2 pairs by mistake
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Tomnova16
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quote: Originally posted by Steve
your meant to take the drum off and knock the collars out and replace with the ones in the kit, unless its different on corsas, they should be one cone bearing at front and back of the drum, and a collar each side. Thats if your not hampered with an abs tone wheel at the back. Youve also got the seal on the rear cone to replace aswell
thats what the nova ones are so presume the corsa are the same
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Ian
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quote: Originally posted by scottyp1989
once the castle nut is off they just slide out and new ones in, ye garage will probly charge you an hour labour, dosent mean it takes an hour does it
Doing that would but you should change the races.
All needs greasing, torquing, it's not 10 minutes.
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Haimsey
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They're not that difficult to do, have a read up and maybe give it a go yourself?
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Scotty C
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quote: Originally posted by Haimsey
They're not that difficult to do, have a read up and maybe give it a go yourself?
Agreed. Just make sure u do the nut up to the correct torque settings and don't over tighten them
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tom130691
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quote: Originally posted by Steve
how in gods name can you do wheel bearings 10 mins a side, dont be ridiculous.
maybe if you are a cowboy and dont bother changing the collars or greasing up the bearings properly.
you are probs looking at an hours labour plus parts
[Edited on 16-01-2011 by Steve]
quote: Originally posted by Ian
quote: Originally posted by scottyp1989
once the castle nut is off they just slide out and new ones in, ye garage will probly charge you an hour labour, dosent mean it takes an hour does it
Doing that would but you should change the races.
All needs greasing, torquing, it's not 10 minutes.
if its not done properly this will happen and you will die... i did
done by a moron didnt change the racer's or even grease it up according to the RAC guy who fixed it
[Edited on 16-01-2011 by saxo_tom]
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csweatherston
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How can so many people who have clearly never fitted a rear wheel bearing to a corsa 'try' to give advice?.
They are tapered bearings thus have no torque setting.
They should be adjusted untill the free play has been taken up.
Its not a 10 minute job, once you have removed the old races, cleaned up the drum before fitting the new races and greased each bearing you looking at 15-20mins easily.
Giving the drum is off it would be advisable to adjust your shoes and clean out all the dust.
I would allow 1-1.5hours for the complete job...done properly.
[Edited on 16-01-2011 by csweatherston]
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Scotty C
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Ive done rear wheel bearings where autodata have given an torque setting? And they were tapered.
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beck_corsa
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Wow didn't know bearings would cause such debate lol thanks for your opinions
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chrisritch
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quote: Originally posted by beck_corsa
Wow didn't know bearings would cause such debate lol thanks for your opinions
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beck_corsa
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haha thanks :L when i finally get them done i will post on here how much it cost me and how long the garage charged for so we can have a final decision
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pow
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I've had them off to sort out out my handbrake cable. I had a friend helping me but it didn't seem hard at all, much much easier than I would have ever imagined!
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Steve
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quote: Originally posted by csweatherston
How can so many people who have clearly never fitted a rear wheel bearing to a corsa 'try' to give advice?.
They are tapered bearings thus have no torque setting.
They should be adjusted untill the free play has been taken up.
Its not a 10 minute job, once you have removed the old races, cleaned up the drum before fitting the new races and greased each bearing you looking at 15-20mins easily.
Giving the drum is off it would be advisable to adjust your shoes and clean out all the dust.
I would allow 1-1.5hours for the complete job...done properly.
[Edited on 16-01-2011 by csweatherston]
agree with all of that apart from the torque, some taper require light tightening of the hub nut then re tightening every now and again, others, such as mine are tapered and use a waffer (torque) nut, they are done up tight, to 235nm, and dont require adjustments later on
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Tomnova16
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Doesn't it say in the haynes manual torque up to a certain amount (can't remember what) then loosen till hub spins
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pow
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The splitpin is there to stop the nut coming off
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Tomnova16
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Yeah that too pow
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Tomnova16
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Looks like that one siezed and sheared off though
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