Removing A Stuck Subaru Rear Wheel Bearing

[Applause] all right folks one of the most feared jobs in the Auto industry the infamous Subaru rear wheel bearing I have no idea if that's a true statement but for today's video we're going to assume it is in the Northeast guys have quit your job instead of doing these there's rumor that some guys have quit become cosmetologists I don't know if that's true either but I've heard the rumor so today I'm going to end those fears for you show you a trick Memaw taught me but first we have to get to the bearings we're going to pull the brakes off a customer request new brakes in the rear as well as both rear wheel bearings Whoa man down let's see what we can do show you the key to success with these things hopefully it might blow up in our face if it does blow up in our face you'll be right there along with us in a while [Applause] I think it's mean boy we're gonna take the parking brakes off maybe there we go oh right on the ground [Music] man all deliveries are showing up all right now we're going to take it right off the cable here just like so peel the bolts out we're almost done folks I'm gonna reach up here on the back side 14 mm I'm going to want to give it a tap it'll swivel and we got four of those little guys to take out there we are folks last Bolt I'm gonna tell you folks I have tried every method known to man to get these things off presses and pullers and you name it it doesn't work these things are stuck like I think these things even in Florida are stuck they go into the knuckle quite a long ways and unfortunately there's nothing to press against here so if you're using our the Lyle tool that we have that full time here it's got the forcing screw you can push against the you know caliper bracket I wouldn't suggest it because you're just gonna break it you're going to need a whole knee assembly by the time you're done um use the actual tools Last Chance slash first try remover the trick I've used where you remove the bolt you know the wheel bolt and you know stick a forcing screw through there all it does is you know pop the Hub face off I've done it where I've left the axle nut on doing that method you really take a chance of breaking the speed sensor when you do that it kind of works but usually it ruins all the bolts and you're really super pissed off by the time it's off so I'm going to show you a method that I find that works is the easiest but first thing I do is get this Hub face off the other thing that folks will say you'll see down in the comments is that they put the bolts in from the back side and then just you know tap on them and then the The Hub comes off it's not going to happen I promise you on these Subarus that will not work it works on a lot of cases and that's a great way to do it but on these you're going to end up buying four new bolts and you're just going to push the threads right out you gotta trust me folks these things are stuck all right so give that a couple whacks get it right out of your way and then you're going to want to go break out the welder I'm gonna show you a lot of people ain't gonna like this but I'm all about just getting the job done so you have to get past it coming here with the old drill and a burr [Music] get that a little polish and then we're gonna grab a bolt whatever I did with it here I'll find it stand by and here's the plan I take a half inch bolt out of the bolt bin it'd be better if he had one that was threaded all the way but in this case this one's not we're going to stick the bolt up here with these nuts these nuts we're gonna weld it onto the bearing and then we're gonna stick another nut under here under this nut you'll see why trust me this is a tried and true method that I've I've used and it works so the problem I guess I guess what we're ultimately doing is we're just trying to get the bearing housing to crack out of the knuckle and that's all you need to do is you just need to get it to pop uh if you're inclined to just stick a single nut up here and weld it you can't get enough booger on it to keep it from Just snapping off it just torques down falls off so I found in my limited experience that welding two of them keeps it from getting out of keeps it from getting all cattywampus I guess and then sticking another one under here just fills the space you could probably use a smaller nut under there but I'd grab three half inches so that's what we're going to use you'll understand here in a minute and you'll thank me especially if you work in the shop and you've turning your two-week notice over doing one of these bearings and the best part is you don't even have to be a YouTube certified welder to do this because it's you know it's going in the trash anyways so nobody can really criticize how crappy of a welder you are so it's kind of a win-win I'm going to bat this one all the way out here I'm gonna hold this one here flat I'm gonna give it a little tack [Music] just kind of hold it in place I might have it down too far nope not too bad not too bad at all you don't need a lot of thread because we're only going to give it just a short push so we'll stick that one under there I'll try again I want to push down on that a little bit here dang it all the heck this is a story of my life right now this is real world [Music] under there a little more but that's good enough but we're going for it we're done fiddling give that a little tack right there a little tack right there and then tack the nut to the nut and that's it folks now this thing's gonna be kind of jammed in there don't sweat it just leave it in there when you start welding it's going to be moving and it doesn't matter we just need to be able to force it against the backing plate that's behind here there's a really small area that you can push and ideally it'd be nice to have two but you'll see we're only going to need one it's pretty cave Spanish I tell you what you'll want to give me a little hug when you do one of these let's see here get the old helmet on the welding Center is nuclear so set it as high as it goes just fry this little fella oh foreign we're going to give that a go I'm not super happy how I've got the nut welded on the inside but it might be enough to hold it we have to do a little cool down there for a half a second fella too close we'll grab the three-quarter circuit and a half inch hook and Dougie will get some Leroy Jethro and Gibbs get it we'll put that on there we'll put it around things it doesn't really matter you don't really need pants repeat because it's not going to do squat okay here we go fellas nope I knew she wasn't stuck good gosh dang it Let's uh let's try this again I can't really get in there I should have welded that one first let me see if I can't booger it a little bit more we're off kilter right now so it may not work I might have to do round two but that's that's what happens sometimes let's see how it would all right if you can't weld good weld a lot that's what my motto is oh no you did it [Music] thank you it's not where I want it this one isn't going to work I bet [Music] work like a charm like a dream come over here dreaming then you want to break out the dog because now we got our cracked sideways here these are pretty pretty precise fit thank you say what who just won the war you want to go to warm blocking see got the hammer right here oh Subaru wheel bearing what that's how you win son and that really is it folks [Music] to go here and clean out the Rocks these suckers go in this backing plate a long ways well plus they go through the backing plate which is so this has a you know hard metal piece behind it so it's stuck in that they're stuck in the canuckle it's awful [Music] [Music] foreign so it's not too bad a job folks for the DIY at home maybe maybe not this this might be one bearing I would tell the folks at home you probably shouldn't do and if you go to a shop you probably should ask them if they have any experience removing them um you know the last thing you want to do is get slapped with a you know eight hour bill because they just couldn't get it apart and end up doing the whole knuckle and everything they are really awful to do anybody that's done one you know it's pretty terrible unless you know the tricks and they're walking the park baby foreign [Applause] specs here [Music] there's that oh let's see another game and you don't really have to worry about the mark you put on the backing plate it's pretty insignificant here let me uh get some brake clean I'm gonna hit that in a while we're gonna take some of our silly ramek touch all the spots here touch them twice hang our shoe find the pin find a retainer through the back side [Music] I did see on the internet I posted a picture of me doing one of these one day welding and take one of these off it was on the Facebook maybe on the entity somebody mentioned that soup that they make a puller for these so I looked it up watch some guy use it it takes about a half a day to get it on and hooked up and then I think it was a tune of about nine hundred dollars foreign because this only costs a couple dollars you know providing you have a welder I suppose [Applause] maybe in the comment section you can see what as a diy-er um what you guys have done to do these I'd be curious to know all right am I going the right way with this thing [Music] yes sir got my spring foot down back in on the parking brake lever here we go it doesn't go that way that's the way it's going now we should be good though there's someone whose shoes fall off that's all that's all oh I got my finger mm-hmm that looks right right I think this thing's seized up yes sir this side's not let me get this Broke Free she's free now boys [Applause] [Music] we'll slide that little guy up in there because we are putting some new brakes on it while we're back here [Applause] I might be able to adjust them [Applause] perfect [Music] let's see if we have any fingerprints on it we'll get rid of the evidence not that anybody uses their parking brakes but we'll make sure it works when it leaves that's it baby I got to give it the customary to flip around it's very important one in the next one oh my God that'll hold that the rubbers was missing there already out of parking brake let's get a bracket let's slide that little fella now don't just go slapping on your rusty crappy old bracket you got to clean out all the rust where the bad ears go you guys seen this do it a million times so I didn't show you I don't show you on the million in one I'm gonna come through and torque those specs but make sure your uh you know your pins are free the pads they gotta they gotta move in and out easy I'm talking like boom just barely touch them like watching like a pinky finger that if I wanted to take your caliper push it back with the pushy back tool clean the Piston face lubricate the metal to metal surfaces slip that baby on hey it's that guy it's okay now we're gonna take and uh we're gonna snug these up we'll come back through like I say We'll torque everything to factory specs so you don't have to worry about that we still have to tighten up our axle hub nut there prior to doing that though we're going to reach through our little star adjuster make sure you made a mental note of which way it needed to turn and we're going to wind it all the way up we want our little parking brake shoes come out to the hit right there tight as mud we're gonna back it off a few clips [Applause] yeah come on make sure your spring is wound up in your star adjuster there yes sir easy oh I have to get a smaller screwdriver here sticker in there do this one-handed all that danger danger there we go we got one seven seven ftlbs now before I put the wheel on make sure you peen down your axle nut down into the groove or the axle to keep her from backing off a free tip for you if the OG Groove lines up here and there's nothing left to pin over take the axle nut off this side and swap it for the one on the other side and chances are they don't line up in the same exact spot so or buy a new axle not like you're supposed to one or the other all right folks that's it rear wheel bearing on your Subaru doing it the easy way we'll say we'll use our little claw hands and make these quotes because it's not super easy because you have to have a welder if you're a diyer you might not have a welder and if you don't just go buy one it might be cheaper than paying somebody to do your wheel bearing on your Subaru I don't know that for a fact but these things are a mother lover I've tried as I mentioned earlier in the video all the tricks all the different polars and finagling things you can get on here to try to get these things to break loose and you know double air hammering Bolts from the back I mean you name it tried making up swear words and they still don't come off and that's the method I ended up using one time in a fit of rage and I'm like oh wow that worked pretty well I have to remember that and then ever since then when these come in that's just my go-to I don't try anything else first because they're super duper stuck we grab a couple nuts and a bolt and we weld them up I'm so freaking childish and we weld them up on there and boom you know Bob's your uncle so you guys seen how we do it I'd be curious to know how you guys have done it in the comments section in regards to Subaru rear wheel bearing set is and uh how your shop gets them off and uh that's it while you're down there tell me that story subscribe to insty the Facebook ring the bell get the notifications you guys know what to do at this point and just remember viewers if I can do it you can do it thanks for watching foreign [Music]

Channel: South Main Auto Repair LLC

Views: 529,842

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Id: dVMssN-nDiY

Length: 27min 5sec (1625 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 08 2023