Rust Belt Mechanics Nightmare 😱 - Subaru Rear Wheel Bearing

hey viewers and welcome back to the self made auto channel that's a 2007 subaru it's got the big two five wheel bearing shot and it's up to us to get it changed so i've got all the parts here we've got the new bolts the new seals the bearings and the snap ring and all the stuff we should need so let's get started [Applause] [Music] ah so [Music] so hmm [Music] if you drum stuck on there like that in a perfect world you'd get back here and you'd back off the star wheel adjuster but let's be honest it's a mother to get to on these subarus they're they're kind of buried in back behind on the spindle i guess they're just a pain so if you can kind of lightly gingerly tap it off you know go for it wow ah yeah baby's ready to go back in we just gotta wipe the grease off it we got the race off easy peasy we have to remove the bracket here for the abs wire these things are oftentimes not friendly like to get all twisted up this bottom one not so much the top one it can be ugly and you might have to do what you have to do uh aka you know leave it in and just kind of bend it out otherwise you just make a mess out of it [Music] that one comes right loose now who's the liar oh she wants to twitch right there so stop stop what you're doing twist the little bracket back because it ain't gonna take much more and no pb blaster is going to help you there folks for the record uh the main thing was is we wanted to get this bracket that holds the parking brake cable on so we can get behind here and get the nut off but likely we're going to come in here with a sawzall anyways and go soon see if we can't get that uh nut off there nothing there's a flat washer oh you can give it the old college try but a good chance the bolt that's there that you can't recognize because it looks like you know the rest of the car is not going to come out so you know i would appreciate it though if this one comes out i would be grateful so try to send it all right so that one turned so that'll be good because eventually we're going to need to take this one out ultimately the goal is is to get the cv axle out so we can get to the bearing so this has got to go that's got to go and then we're going to change the bearing on the car so that's the plan in case you're wondering [Music] missions so [Applause] fire fire [Applause] fail so cutting that off sometimes that'll heat up the bushing enough where when you rattle it this arm will come back a little bit so we can get in there easier with the saw because there's not a lot of clearance on the inside to get in there with the saw without risking cutting the knuckle slightly uh if it comes down to it we just heat this up a little bit get that bushing burning stick a pry bar in here just pull it back just enough to be able to get in there good with a saw blade also doesn't like fire [Music] this is really bad for your torch tip fyi so just fyi there easy come on come on it's really hard on your torch tip don't ever let your dad hear you doing that he used to get really upset with me when i would do that but guess who taught me folks that's what i'm saying all right hypocrite what do you see monkey do come on ping i don't know where that went but it was pretty toasty you don't want to do that on i almost got baby there she goes you see how that wiggled back a little [Applause] that's what i'm talking about because some people are in the comments like oh you're hitting it in how could it be coming out well i don't know the answer because i'm not a physics professor however i've worked on a lot of junk and i just know that's how it works plus this has some rearward tension on it and i knew that it would jiggle back that way so don't ask me complicated questions get in there nice and easy i don't know i just say don't push too hard on the on the backing plates usually they're pretty crumbly all right so that baby is all up and out of the way there is a slim chance uh we can just take cut that bushing off here up here a little bit right here a little bit right here then knock that bolt this way a little to get this arm away to get in there with the saw if that makes sense to you like i said you can shove if you got no torches or anything you can get in here with a saw blade but just try to favor i don't know right in the middle of the rubber so that's about the only thickness you have is however thick that rubber is which is about a sawzall blade's worth to chop this off without cutting your knuckle which should be naked a little bit forget about it but if you if you take a big chunk out of it i don't know forget about that too i guess just pretend you didn't see it oh nick that sleeve off there so this is the inner sleeve from the bushing all right so we'll just cut the outside of it leaving the bolt okay a little bit there we'll have to get a little more crazy how oxygen won't put out fires you know we'll eventually there's a little co2 up on there um we probably i don't forget enough off there to get the sleeve off you gotta cut it halfway around we got a little bit here let's see close your eyes okay the sleeve is gone the bolt's intact air hammers and stuff are almost worthless on this because everything's rubber mounted um we'll leave that right there because we can come through we'll try to jiggle a little we just want it to go this way just a scoach so we can we'll see what happens fail there we go uh [Music] so basically part fireman she moved i think i saw it move it did did that move through the bushing though that would be super bizarre and helpful all the same time [Music] nope it's stuck in the bushing but we did give it the old spreaderoo which is good because now we have lots of room nothing to worry about no it did not burn the cb boot for the record okay we're good let's chop it off i don't know if this sawzall blade's got any saws all left in it we'll give it the old try are we just making noise i'll put a little score in it's going to take a while these bolts are harder and a banshee how hard banshees get [Music] i really should quit being cheap and just go put a new blade in here but there's just that little bit of life left in it hey what's up this is oh it's smoky so well that was utterly painful why am i being so cheap there's just a tiny bit hold that thing there my god [Music] three hours later and now i'm going to officially retire that blade for the record calls all blades are so expensive we use the diablos and the diablo carbides are expensive little boogers but they work good uh particularly when they're new um you know the one that we just used was pretty well wasted yeah cb axles out we can do what we need to do so [Music] oh great now i got my bit stuck should be a couple seals in here both of them are gone nope one of them's gone got the inner one here come on baby they're usually rusted in place pretty well compared to how easy they go back in so a lot of people are down at the comments wondering why we don't take off the whole knuckle well the fact of the matter is if we wanted to do that you know we would need a parking brake cable and a speed sensor all that stuff and it just hits the stupid level this subaru's pretty well shot you can see the oils just dumping on the rear shocks the you know the body of the car is pretty well wasted lifts already going up through the rocker panels and such so you know if a guy just wants to drive it without the uh bearing screaming here i gotta move you guys and that's just what we do we just do the bearing try to leave all the rest of the crap alone it's pretty typical new york stuff come on baby gosh you think man you just seals ain't in there that time you go make me upset there good night so there's the other seal so you got two inners and then an outer and you can see it's super rusty so you once you get the bearing out you got to clean all that crap up and clean up the face of the cv axle and of course you know we gotta put new bushings in let's see just for granted giggles if we can get this one out probably not josh had to borrow my torch so we gotta go old school sometimes you can hold that sleeve and you can knock her right straight out of there almost almost ah broke my dang air hammer a bit that sucks now this ain't gonna work [Applause] so there's all that's left of the bushing i need less fresh air in here getting a little dizzy uh so we'll let it evacuate gold brassness though doing your school work yeah good all i have is [Applause] oh is that pasta from a box you're such a pasta pasta wow hi kitty kitty hey luna what's your mirror pumpkin come here come to your bathtub how are you oh you didn't even eat your food over there loony you missed it here come here kitty kitty kitty kitty show me your trick oh yeah yeah get it get it what's uh luna eat in there so a little bit of something a little bit of baby deer wow scavenge over there don't you feel guilty no not really me neither so how long before lunch you think not long oh god i'll be out here doing gotta get my rifle ready you're so you're so awesome i'm married again if i had the chance you can i can really we can do the honeymoon again wait we go on the honeymoon no we did it never mind i'll be out here man that misses oh she's savage she's savage on import gear well she already got a nice buck this year got my phone right you want to see it so there's the buck miss though got with her bow and arrow so she's pretty happy about that nice late point there she got everybody in the house and then uh well this boy got a nice buck this year too let me picture that one you got this one here uh during the youth hunt there so he was pretty excited about that and i'd show you mine but i get to make it happen anyhow nothing about deer hunting is there ever enough about deer hunting not really in my book [Applause] so what we're doing here is just using the ball joint press just to smoosh it out i intended on just pushing out the middle but the whole thing came which is great which kind of sucks a little because it might be stuck in here but we'll knock it out of here but the good news is it's out of here now we're just going to take and clean these up a little with some sandpaper here [Music] wow [Music] what's up miss though i got a homemade tool there yeah that's the sandpaper whipper i just showed people your deer told them your whole story too which your buck you just got with your boat yeah show them a picture yeah i didn't tell them the whole story nah i didn't tell them how panicky you were you might not have made a good shot but lo and behold you did but you say that every time you get a deer so i don't even believe you anymore everything so we're going to take and just push our bushings in we'll lube them up a little bit just using some uh regular silicone paste here on these they don't push in that uh difficult to be honest with you this is providing you have all the crud cleaned out in there now we'll just use the ball joint press to push it in also i'm sure there's a special tool that does this however i don't own it but this will work just fine i mean you could darn near push them in by hand here like so you don't need any tools really it gets about halfway it'll start getting a little harder but if you've got it lubricated good they usually go in relatively easy so the thing is it's got the lip on it here we need it to go through and pop that out uh i've just got a piece of pipe with a beat-up washer on the back of it it's about the right size it seems to work pretty well for these you just kind of finagle maybe you get a socket back there or something anything really you just need that little extra space so we're gonna push that straight through okay that should be enough now you'll see that it's pushed in a little bit further on this side than it has to be this side has gone all the way through so then what we'll do we just kind of even it up we'll just push it back the way we came kind of get it centered in there and everything should be good if you try to put these in without cleaning out the uh the control arm they're a real pain in the neck and make sure you lube the heck out of them because then they go quite easy so there that's that's it piece of cake new bushings got that babysitting napper not a sponsor but uh they still had them so there that's good get the other one in call today we need to clean some of that rust out of there we're just gonna use the old needle scaler oh man he's a little leaky that's obnoxious looks like we got most of it out except for the little angle i can't get to uh we'll probably take well we got the old bearing and crap in there we're gonna take and clean this up there's a lot of rust and junk on this [Music] yeah another piece of sandpaper [Applause] you there what i was hoping for too much rust [Music] it should be pretty decent right there yeah all right now the hard part's all done now we need to find the ends of the snap ring here looks like right there see if we can't get under with our little pocket screwdriver work that baby out so don't lose that don't forget to put it in either rule number i'm one try to push the bearing out here with some threaded rod actually designed for this one you guys just follow us i've seen me use this tool probably or three times anyway i was gonna say a thousand times but i haven't shown you everyone we've ever done just sure done a few come on baby there oh she came inside here there's here there's the old bearing so i gotta get the new one [Music] wipe out any smooth that's in there shouldn't be much just whatever we uh got in there when we were cleaning around on the back side now we did all that cleaning on the back side with the old bearing in place you could do it with the bearing removed and just do it any way you want really make up your own rules there's no right or wrong unless it doesn't work then it's wrong i think we're in good shape holes nice and clean stick that baby up there put the nut back on the threaded rod and she goes now before you do anything even if you got to go to the back put the snap ring in trust me wipe off any shmoo you got on there i leave the plastic retaining sleeve right in the middle of that bearing when i put in because these are double tapered bearings you take that out everything falls apart so i just i leave that in until i'm ready to put the spindle in and then we're not ready to put that in until you put the snap ring back and i'll wipe all the old grease and the boogers off of this thing all right and then just put that baby back in there listen carefully and squint because if you send this thing flying you're going to a not want to hit yourself in the eyes and b you're going to want to hear where it went these things go flinging i don't know i lost my pocket screwdriver i guess we'll use a socket click the crack it's in now we can put in the outer seal and then we can put the spindle in and then we can put all the junk on the back side at that point so you can't really mess up these seals as far as mixing them up because they're only going to go in one spot so get that baby started she looks like she started all right let's start a real nice let's get a seal driver and steel driver aka just something flat you had sitting around the shop there she's in look on the back side make golf sting sure that none of the uh that the spring didn't fall out of the seal that'll piss you off if it did uh free tip for you that's the case if you have an issue with that on the back of this seal you actually could have packed it with grease in if technically a seal driver if we went got the appropriate one would fill this void in the middle thereby holding the spring out and keeping it from falling off the seal using a flat apparatus as we did to pound the seal in you take the risk of knocking the spring off not seeing it you put it together the seal fouls it's leaking oil all over you're mad you got to do it over or pretend you didn't see it but you know what to do the right thing to do so either a use the seal driver the appropriate one to expand the inner lip to keep the spring from falling off or on the back of the seal pack with grease and it greatly reduces the risk of that happen that makes sense we're going to take some wheel bearing grease this grease gun clean off the tip you don't want a bunch of junk in the trunk we're getting all over this seal so we're gonna coat the seal it's way too much dude but hey this is hollywood so we're gonna that is wow back there right down in there that's napa grease and a napa bearing it's probably compatible so there's that and then we're going to get our spare okay there's no reason that this can't be pushed in right now always ask yourself before you put the spindle on is there any reason i can't push this in seal's going to ride up here on this upper lip which we've already cleaned we've already removed the race very gingerly i'm going to support the bearing on the back side with my left hand and then using our pocket screwdriver that i found on the floor we're going to push out that plastic center retainer without jamming the screwdriver through your fingers and without popping the bearing apart most importantly and now she comes so there's that that's what holds the bearing together i got a tiny bit of shmuel in there now that it matters but it says youtube and we want to back up the race so we don't push it out i want to make sure that that is actually hitting the race meant to look from back here hey i'll race ya oh i get a smaller one backing up the inner race sticking this little guy right here get the nut on make darn sure you're pushing against the race otherwise you're just going to pop your bearing all apart and you'll be upset now we're gonna drive her home and when we get down towards the seal we're gonna kind of wiggle it a little so it doesn't get caught up on that lip that folks is that that's changing the wheel bearing on your subaru did you put the snapper in there you did this is the moment when you think about that all right so we're good we're done show's over so now we need to pop the inner seal the inner inner seal now this one doesn't have a spring yes it does have a spring so what i was saying is you can pack this whole inner edge full of grease if you were so inclined to do so if you felt inclined to do so so we'll stick that up there and we're gonna have to go get a driver disc or socket or something that fits that as well as we can but it really sucks trying to do a video and try to get good light for you guys because the light that i need is not the light that you need but there we go so i'll go get a disc we'll see if we can't tap that and they don't go in very hard put it all the way no bottom leaves going a little bit all right she looks straight from my house then we'll do the uh inner outer seal that's not confusing make sure you got it going the right way this just kind of seals against the crusty cv shaft that should sound solid because my disc driver is hitting here on the outside and then we just want that seal in flush sounded like we had a pretty solid there we did so that's that you just got your two innings your inner inner and your inner outer and now we're going to take when our fingers clean we're going to put a bunch of grease in there call it a day i guess we can just do it with the tip of our grease gun because this is your first line of defense and keeping trash out of this bearing it's a really piss-poor design that subaru made um i think the same guy who designed their head gaskets and valve bodies also was in charge of designing the seal don't get me wrong i'm a big subaru advocate but this when this came out really really shaking my head and thankful at the same time because these things go bad just about as fast as you can change them thankfully and nobody wants to mess with them hardly any shops around here will even do them that's why i think that's probably why we get so many of them which i don't understand because as you can see it's not an overly difficult task so there's that let's get the axle cleaned up because we didn't do that in part one because this is the dilemma folks see the the axle shaft here the inner seal that we just put in the inner inner is supposed to seal on this surface the inner outer seals on this surface but you can see it's just all complete rusty crack and that's what happens the seal goes bad the bearing gets some junk in it and you know robert's your mother's brother and shows over so we're going to take the whizzy wheel we're going to clean this up technically you should probably put a cv axle in it every time you do these to you know get you the best of the best but we're working with what we have already cleaned up the inside or just giving it the old the old shoe shine with some 120 [Music] just to kind of clean up that surface there give it the best chance to seal i'll tell you a little something josh just came back from lunch and this happens often and i've often wondered about this we gotta whisper we don't want to hear us good kid is it normal for guys to spray cologne on themselves when they get back from lunch i could understand if you're out smoking some dope and you're coming back and you don't want your boss to find out but i know that's not the case for that young man and the other thing is the most eligible bachelor there jason he used to do the same thing every time they come back from lunch they smell like they've been on a thief and i've also noticed some customers that carry cologne in their car and i just wonder if that's some kind of customary thing i missed out on at some point in my life used to be when i come back from lunch i just smell like fried food or whatever restaurant i went to or whatever greasy dive diner i went in [Music] maybe something of the younger generation or they're smoking dope one of the other but i know that's not it something i always pondered never put my finger on it i think we're good oh around that edge as good as we're gonna be i mean that's pretty corroded i did take the whizzy wheel and clean that off we'll get some brake parts cleaner hose that down put it back together stick the bolt in it go home so so [Applause] not that it's ever gonna have to come back out the car doesn't have much life left in it we're not too worried about all that business give me the benefit of the doubt though the bolt i haven't found aftermarket i think it's subaru only use our local subaru dealer has half a dozen or so in stock at all times so that's not a big deal so there's that folks got to set it down on a jackson we'll tighten those up and then we'll set it down on a jack stand there to put it at ride height and get the bolts tightened up there this bolt and that bolt and that's it so ah so so we'll snug that up that's torque 100 100 expect we've got to knock it back down here over the little slot keep that from back off no cotter pins in these so and then that's it there you have it folks replacing the rear wheel bearing on your 2007 subaru with the big two five uh fortunately most of these have long been put in the crusher and made into razor blades as wes would say thankfully uh the newer subarus or hub assembly so you don't see much of these old junkers anymore with this style uh rear suspension or this style rear wheel bearing thankfully these things are always a monster to do unless they were brand new but we've never seen those cars because we only see rusty junky ones so that's that i'm gonna put the wheel on it i gotta go warm it up give it an oil change and adios muchacha so why don't you guys adios into the comment section we're down there the questions the concerns the insti the facebook and just from our viewers if i can do it you can do it thanks for watching [Music]

Channel: South Main Auto Repair LLC

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Length: 45min 51sec (2751 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 17 2021