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Front bearings and hub into new housings

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I'm going to be fitting new wheel hubs and wheel bearings into the front housings this weekend and just after some clarification is it the same as the mk2 golf

Circling, press wheel bearing into housing then press wheel hub into bearing

Thanks

Edit !!! forgot I had a bloody haynes which explains the process

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Here are two good sites that explain the process.

On the car replacement.
Wheel Bearings, on the Car

Off the car replacement.
https://www.driversfound.com/scirocco/techtips/suspension/wheelbearingsfront/

After doing it off the car for a couple of times I opted to try the on the car method.

I took a Wheel lug to the hardware store and got a couple of grade 10 bolts about 6 inches long to pull the
hub out of the spindle.

Where Ron, says Grease the Bolt, when you press them out, Grease it for each side, I used axle grease and it is a Whole LOT easier.

When you see the statement about pre-load, I have  a thread on that.  But be warned chances are that you may need to buy two hubs, as they can get worn.

https://www.volkswagenownersclub.com/threads/what-is-that-pre-load-when-replacing-front-wheel-bearings.81082/

Lastly, the bearings usually have a rounded lip on one side, that is the side that you insert to start the pressing.
If you use the squared off side you can get the bearing cockbound and that will ruin your day and you have to buy a new bearing.

Hopes this helps, as after I did it a couple of times, It gets way easier, and you can do it in about 30 minutes.

Hardest part is getting the Axle nut off.  My Impact made short work of it.  I always broke the torque off the axle bolt with the car on the ground before with a breaker bar with a 5 foot cheater on it.  When I bought my 400ft pound Electric Torgue wrench.  it was so much easier.

The two tool sets that I bought to help were:
The bearing kits.

The upper kit was also used to put engine mounts in as one of the collars is the same size as the right front engine mount.  When I got the 6 ton press that helped a lot more.
Still Freeze the bearing for a couple of days prior.

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