93 civic front hub bearing
I have a 93 civic lx with 205k miles. I went to get my wheels aligned
today because there was some type of rumbling sound coming from the front left wheel area. Being that i just replaced my steering boots, I needed an alignment anyways. The guy brings me to my car on the lift and wiggles the top of my tire in and out, he said that my hub needed to be pressed. They quoted me 250 to do the job, but I've replaced the head on my car...so I think I can hold my own as far as working on it goes. I know a guy that has a press and is willing to let me use it to do what I need to do. Is it worth the trouble of getting a new bearing and separating and pressing this thing or should I just go to the junkyard and find a good one? If I should do it myself, does anyone have any other clear ways of doing this job. I have the service manual and I understand the steps leading up the removing the hub...it gets kind of cloudy there. Thanks, Ricky |
Re: 93 civic front hub bearing
rickylowary@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a 93 civic lx with 205k miles. I went to get my wheels aligned > today because there was some type of rumbling sound coming from the > front left wheel area. Being that i just replaced my steering boots, > I needed an alignment anyways. The guy brings me to my car on the > lift and wiggles the top of my tire in and out, he said that my hub > needed to be pressed. They quoted me 250 to do the job, but I've > replaced the head on my car...so I think I can hold my own as far as > working on it goes. I know a guy that has a press and is willing to > let me use it to do what I need to do. Is it worth the trouble of > getting a new bearing and separating and pressing this thing or should > I just go to the junkyard and find a good one? If I should do it > myself, does anyone have any other clear ways of doing this job. I > have the service manual and I understand the steps leading up the > removing the hub...it gets kind of cloudy there. > > Thanks, > Ricky at the end of the day, it's probably cheaper and quicker to get a whole knuckle/hub assembly from a junkyard and replace the whole thing. you can do the bearing with a press obviously, and it's not that hard, but it's easily screwed up too [need to avoid loading the inner race when pushing the outer race into position, etc] - the junkyard solution avoids all that. fyi, bearings on hondas can easily last 300k miles or more, so chances are, this bearing has been hammered at some point in the past thus brinelling the bearing. if you ever find yourself in the position where a driveshaft needs to be extracted, use a press - don't hammer. |
Re: 93 civic front hub bearing
yea I was leaning more toward the junkyard option anyways...just to
save the hassle. thanks for the heads up. Ricky |
Re: 93 civic front hub bearing
<rickylowary@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:ada99ec8-6a37-41bf-9185-53e81675a7e6@r10g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > yea I was leaning more toward the junkyard option anyways...just to > save the hassle. thanks for the heads up. > > > Ricky > > Good idea - the bearings are usually ungodly tight. A 12 ton press would probably be the minimum. I've had to shop out the ones I've done. And I suspect a hub from a wrecking yard would be about the same price as a bearing. Car-part.com lists two near me; one for $45 (ungraded) and one for $59 (grade A - low miles or otherwise exceptional condition). Mike |
Re: 93 civic front hub bearing
Well, I went to the junkyard yesterday after class and found a nice
hub that was 90% off..all that to take off was left was the ball joint at the top. The part was only $45 on a car that had 125k miles on it. I came home, slapped it on in about 2 hours and got my tires aligned at the shop. All in all I saved about $250 and a day without my car...pretty good deal I think. I even gave my car a bath after for accepting the transplant seamlessly. Thanks for all your help. |
Re: 93 civic front hub bearing
<rickylowary@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:8a1cc755-b7e1-4727-bf8c-2247cff5f9df@j38g2000yqa.googlegroups.com... > Well, I went to the junkyard yesterday after class and found a nice > hub that was 90% off..all that to take off was left was the ball joint > at the top. The part was only $45 on a car that had 125k miles on > it. I came home, slapped it on in about 2 hours and got my tires > aligned at the shop. All in all I saved about $250 and a day without > my car...pretty good deal I think. I even gave my car a bath after > for accepting the transplant seamlessly. Thanks for all your help. > > Score! |
Re: 93 civic front hub bearing
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:20:59 -0800, rickylowary wrote:
> Well, I went to the junkyard yesterday after class and found a nice hub > that was 90% off..all that to take off was left was the ball joint at > the top. The part was only $45 on a car that had 125k miles on it. I > came home, slapped it on in about 2 hours and got my tires aligned at > the shop. All in all I saved about $250 and a day without my > car...pretty good deal I think. I even gave my car a bath after for > accepting the transplant seamlessly. Thanks for all your help. invest some of your saved $250 in a joint separator, as per tegger's faq's. saves you a whole bunch of time messing about with that top link in the future! |
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