Do you need a press for Front wheel bearing install...
12-17-2004, 02:13 PM
#1
AudiWorld Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 873
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Do you need a press for Front wheel bearing install...
I need to replace my front wheel bearing...I can't do this my self I take it, for some reason I recall needing to have the press/seat the rear when I had it replaced? Just curious since I finally decided to go with the Zimmerman X-drilled and the Pagit Blues...Wow $, hope they are worth it. Just figured if I needed to have the bearing done at the shop, I'd install the brakes while it was up on the lift.
12-17-2004, 02:47 PM
#2
AudiWorld Senior Member
Re: Do you need a press for Front wheel bearing install...
yes you need to take them somewhere to have them pressed unless you happen to own a hydraulic press.
12-17-2004, 06:15 PM
#4
why "hydraulic press?" A 4-speed gear reduction 10 ton arbor press KILLS a hydraulic press...
<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/711/arborpress.jpg"></center><p>seats/unseats Audi wheel bearings in one pull with only one finger. And it'll do all four in under 30 seconds! We dont need no stinking "multi-pump" hydraulic presses. This Dake floor model eats hydraulic presses for breakfast!
;-)
;-)
12-18-2004, 04:21 AM
#6
Free! Someone had used a cheater bar on it, broke a pinion tooth and scrapped it...
Also the lever was bent. I machined a new low gear pinion for it which also was free as I had the tool steel around. I did have to pay $28 to have the new gear heat treated/hardened. Then I polished up a new lever from 1" diameter cromoly rod stock I had around. New they're just at $3k for the press head, without stand and this one has the factory stand. My previous one was a 5 ton model by same manufacturer (Dake/Detroit) and I paid $475 for it on Ebay and sold it a year later for $1200 locally thru an Ebay ad. I had set a high bid for it at Ebay of $1200 and kept waiting to be outbid and no one ever bid on it so I got it for $25 over it's opening price plus $90 shipping from Washington state.
But they are heavy! The one in pic weighs 535lbs.
But they are heavy! The one in pic weighs 535lbs.
Trending Topics
12-18-2004, 09:01 AM
#8
was just a straight gear but yes. If it had been a helical gear I would've sent it out...
<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/711/quikstop.jpg"></center><p>I have a manual helical jig for my mill but never used it and honestly wouldnt know where to start. Conversely, straight-cut gears are a piece of cake even with a manual mill long as you have an indexible horizontal/vertical "quik-stop" rotary chuck as in pic.