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[sport]

Hi dose any one know how much a rear wheel bearing is for my 03 2.2 estate thanks

[Jimbob]

Omega        Part Number        Retail Price        Normal Trade        Trade Club
Wheel bearings, rear
All saloon models                                       90510542       £41.30       £35.11       £27.41
 
All estate models                                       90486468       £63.50       £54.06       £41.94

[sport]

Thank you

[Jimbob]

no probs.


all from vaux, and plus vat obviously...


you doing it yourself?

[feeutfo]

suspect not, bugger that. Still wondering if its easier to change the whole arm for another with good bearing......Anyone?

[Harison213]

suspect not, bugger that. Still wondering if its easier to change the whole arm for another with good bearing......Anyone?

I remember one member once changed the bearing (Jimbob?) but he also made a note that next time he'll change the whole arm!

If you're going to change the arm, do it in one go! I took the arm off but had to leave the car (on stands + jack) for a week (silly, I know:-[) only to find out later that diff and the back-plate where the front of the arm goes had moved! Had a nightmare putting it back together!

[sparkyw666.]

i am doing the rear wheelbearing on my mig the now and can i f**k get it out of that arm its like your worst nightmare

[Jimbob]

mine had seized in...

had to remove the rear arm and sledgehammer it out!

maint guide...

1. ring garage and book in.
2. drive to garage, leave car and walk away
3. return to garage, pay, drive away with nice new quiet bearing 

 

[Harison213]

mine had seized in...

had to remove the rear arm and sledgehammer it out!

maint guide...

1. ring garage and book in.
2. drive to garage, leave car and walk away
3. return to garage, pay, drive away with nice new quiet bearing 

 

not a bad memory, ey?

[sparkyw666.]

mine had seized in...

had to remove the rear arm and sledgehammer it out!

maint guide...

1. ring garage and book in.
2. drive to garage, leave car and walk away
3. return to garage, pay, drive away with nice new quiet bearing 

 

that sounds about right if the other side needs doing thats exactly what i will be doing
 Pg

[feeutfo]

Big Roger(?) has swapped the bearing, total mare by all accounts.

[amba]

I did as Jimbob advised in his very concise maintenance guide when my offside rear bearing started to make a nasty noise.
Got a "fixed "price agreed of £175=00 to do the entire job...collected following day and garage said that if they had do another on an Omega they would charge atleast twice that price as an absolute pig of a job.
Best of luck with yours ......I would advise a garage do it...lot less grief.!!! imho.

[Big_Roger]

Hi,
I have been following this thread with interest, as I have replaced both rear wheel bearings on my motor.

You are all right, in that this is not a job to undertake lightly, and you need to understand how the drive hub, drive shaft and bearing are fitted together, and plan how and what gear you will need.

Before I did mine, I enquired at local Vx dealer. They were quite straigtforward. The car was just not worth it. Yes, they probably knew just what a job it was, but with the proper Vx tools and post lift, I doubt the job would take more than an hour. So I guess they didn't have the gear.
I approached three small local garages, the cheapest I could get was £400 and only one admitted they had previously done the same job. Their's was the dearest.

The alternatives are, Remove the suspension arm complete, and take to an engineering workshop with a press and various mandrels and ask them to do the job.
Removing the arm and replacing is not just a simple job.

I decided to study just how the Vx special tool works, and to mimic as best I could with what junk I had accumulated over 50 years car DIY and Motorjumbles.

Provided that it is not a "horror job" where the bearing is fretted and siezed into the suspension arm, the following Heath Robinson gear will enable you to change the bearing.

1- Two legged bearing puller to remove the inner drive shaft hub.
2- 32mm socket to undo the drive hub nut.
3- 2 off 10mm X 100mm set bolts with nuts and washers, to remove     the wheel drive flange and shaft.
4- Piece of 3" steel water pipe 2" long as spacer to pull the bearing into.
5- Piece of 12mm studding 9" long with nuts and some big thick washers to use as strongbacks. I used the long jack screw from a bearing puller and an old front wheel hub as a spacer.
6- You can use the old bearing as the spacer to pull the new bearing back in.

The above gear will remove the bearing and pull in the new bearing without any possible damage to the suspension arm, or the new bearing.

If anyone wants greater detail of how to do it, then PM me.

I am happy to lend any member the gear I have put together to do this job, with instructions, but it is all very heavy, and goodness knows what the post would be.


Roger