HOW TO EASILY REPLACE FRONT WHEEL BEARING HUBS ON 12-17 DODGE RAM 4X4 ECODIESEL / HEMI / 1500 / 2500

[Music] so welcome back to gas diesel garage everyone in today's episode we're doing some work on my 2015 dodge ram 4x4 eco diesel and if you haven't heard it already i got a bad wheelbarrow i'm gonna take care of that so stay tuned [Music] so [Music] so [Music] now before you do the wheel bearing just diagnose a couple things there's a few ways that you can find out if you have a bad wheelbarrow first one is the sound and crazy mind-bending annoying sound when you drive at high speeds low speed doesn't matter if you turn the turns on all you hear is whoa but here's the second part jack the truck up in the air put your hand on your front spring when you start spinning you can actually hear it like this too but you shouldn't feel like a grinding vibration on the spring that's the field wise now the other way is you shake the guitar up and down don't confuse the lower and upper ball joints by the way but a lot of times if you're really bad now this is being a four by four uh there's a nut in here that holds it so you're not really gonna find any play there but sometimes you can't right anyways now all we got to do is take that tire off get to work [Music] [Music] do [Music] next what we have to do is gotta take this caliper off and the bracket and the good thing is we can take it off right there your 21 millimeters take that out take out this whole thing out and then we're gonna hang it up onto the uh upper control arm to get it out of our [Music] way [Music] now what i like to do is i like to give myself a big zip tie and tie it up here up out of the way upper control arm because you don't want this big old thing a big old caliber hanging down because this is only rubber you let it hang it stretches it and it damages it all too many times about seeing mechanics do that where they just leave that thing hanging and it causes props there's one good way that you can tell if your rotor has never been replaced on your vehicle you see these little tabs here those are the stock tabs that come from the manufacturer because when it's on the assembly line they put it on and the robot shoves that on there so it'll line up so you can put the brakes together [Music] and when you're taking the rotor off don't hit it with a hammer hit it with a rubber mallet you'll damage stuff use another hammer i've actually seen rotors crack when using a hammer don't do that [Music] now here's your wheel bearing you saw in the last clip we took the center uh nut out but you see here it's got three bolts holding this thing on one two and three now to access them they're right through here see we had to push the axle back a little bit just so you can get to them you see right right there and right there but the first thing i like to do is take the abs sensor loose even though it's not really going to matter because you're getting a new abs sensor that's installed on the wheel bearing itself already and then this one wants to be a pain in the voice there we go great all right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] now we got the blue wheel bearing there we go now it's time to uh put it on don't you wish it was that simple no but anyways here's the new one right there the reason why these things are so expensive like this one cost me about 175 dollars just because they have the abs sensor built into them which most vehicles are like that these days anyway but doing this stuff yourself will save you a lot of money and hassle well before you install the uh wheel bearing coat this with a little bit of uh let's see what you call that stuff oh yeah they call it grease a little bit of grease here even grease on the threads this thing will slide in a whole lot easier all right before the install what i like to do is put all three of those bolts in the holes so i can line them up and get them started it's a lot easier to remove the uh bolts when axle's got free play there we go [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] and of course make sure you put the abs sensor back in put it back in the clips you don't want this thing to get messed up or you'll be doing this wheel bearing again [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] now of course when you install the wheel bearing when you put the tire back on before you drop it down give it a little spin see if that vibration changed or not i think you got it be a quiet ride home [Music] so oh man just guys you guys just don't know man this thing's quieter than it's ever been but anyways one wheel bearing installed and it sounds terrific i just i wish you guys could hear this you can't hear anything i tell you what dodge ram trucks they're best riding trucks well i'm kind of biased because i own a dodge ram but uh but it doesn't matter anyways if you enjoyed this episode please like and subscribe and if you like more great content check out this one this one and oh yeah make sure you subscribe on that one until next time

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Length: 17min 36sec (1056 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 30 2020