Saturday, Nov 05, 2011 at 13:56
Front and rear wheel bearings are two completely different types of bearings.
rear wheel bearings are mostly fixed and unservicable bearings....still not sure why you woud replace rear wheel bearings if it was only a matter of replacing the seals....unless upon inspection the bearings were sus.........but yeah some would replace the bearings while the axles where out.
front bearings are easily accessed for inspection and servicing your own front wheel bearings is realy no biggie.
In addition front wheel bearings in 4WDs tend to be very large, as the stub axles have to be bigger to allow the drive components to pass thru.
My hilux has over 300 000 on the clock, I recently serviced the bearings and hubs and there was absolutly no
sign of wear or damage.
Cost.....a days work and about $10 for gasgets and about half a pot of grease, some solvent ( petrol) and some clean rag....I pulled the whole front hub assemblies apart ( IFS)
In over 30 years of owning high mileage used cars I have never had a front wheel bearing failure.....had some rears fail and go noisy...but never a front.
Big brother had some ongoing issues with front bearings in his MQ partoll, but that truck was alwaus heavily loaded and worked realy hard and now has over 850 000 on it.
cheers
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