Rear Wheel Bearing Replacement Tool

[fun2drive]

Yeah its that time for a couple of my cars. I tried this on my E30 and since they are similar I plan to either have pro do this or buy the rear wheel bearing removal tool.

If I buy the tool I plan to lend it out as long as I get it back if there is interest. I will never get 250-275 bucks of use out of this tool but if others use it and I can recover some of my costs, fine by me.

Anyone interested hit me back.

Anyway I have read my Bentley, tried this before (without a torch like I have now) and just could not get the damn bearing to budge. That was the only issue I had with doing this so I am hoping the right tool will press out the old and press in the new. I plan to make things easier on installing the bearing by heating the receiving area and freezing the bearing thus giving me more clearance when I install the new one.

I don't know of a good write up on this with pics and I have two cars to do (mine and a friends) thus I plan to shoot some good pics of the second R&R if I am successful while using the first car (mine) to learn on.

Going to try this in a couple of weeks...

[catalyst.]

I would be interested in borrowing the tool if you bought it.. i dunno how you would lend it to me since im up in MA though. Maybe 20 bucks + shipping, sorta like renting it i guess.

Anyways i think i need to replace mine too, and a write up with pics would be great.

[catalyst.]

FYI, the tool is 236.xx bucks on pelicanparts.com, i bit better than 250.

[SQ Bimmer]

I would be interested in borrowing the tool if you bought it.. i dunno how you would lend it to me since im up in MA though. Maybe 20 bucks + shipping, sorta like renting it i guess.

Anyways i think i need to replace mine too, and a write up with pics would be great.
I think it works more like you "buy" the tool at the person's current cost, then "return" it for a little less than you bought it for. :dunno

[fun2drive]

I wish I would have looked at Pelican again as I recall it being 250. Oh well I have the tool coming and I plan to do my 325iC to learn the best way to do this then try and document with pics the other car which is a 318ti.
Going to be a few weeks but I will have everything I need by then.

I do hope the tool makes a big difference as I have been able to do everything to my car but this job...

[fun2drive]

Ok I have the tool now and it will be 2 weeks before I get the wheel bearing and time to replace these but I am going to try and shoot pics of the R&R specifically for our e36's and the e30 is of course similar.
Will post what I can in a few weeks unless someone knows of a thread and write-up for this R&R which I have not found yet....

[hellrot325]

I think it works more like you "buy" the tool at the person's current cost, then "return" it for a little less than you bought it for. :dunno That's what I do for my HG kit (see link in sig)...deposit of replacment cost plus shipping, refund of all but rental cost plus shipping when returned. Good deal for all....and steady demand....

[JamesM3M5]

Which tool do you have? The Sir Tools wheel bearing tool B-90 BMW should work on the E30, but it will require slight modification to the horseshoe saddle piece to fit the E36. It needs to be ground open a little bigger. Once I did that, it has never let me down...

Otherwise, grease the threads well and use the right dies for the bearings. Don't forget to pull the snap ring out first, or you'll never get the bearing out! Get internal snap ring pliers for 2.5-3" snap rings.

[mp66226]

Hey, just wondered if you had success using the tool? Are you still interested in loaning it out as I've got some roaring coming from the back end I suspect is a wheel bearing, would like to save some of the cost of having a pro do it.

[allen201]

If I buy the tool I plan to lend it out as long as I get it back if there is interest. I will never get 250-275 bucks of use out of this tool but if others use it and I can recover some of my costs, fine by me.


If you replace even one bearing with it, you've made your money back. Most shops charge about 220 - 250 in labor to do a wheel bearing.

ETA: Just realized I got suckered into posting in a zombie thread, damn you guy that revived this! ;)

[axthrower]

The bearings come out and go in with no trouble at all with the tool.. glad I bought it. Hard part for me was getting the stub axle out of the hub, needed a torch and a few hundred ftlbs on a hub puller to get it to budge

[fishfeet]

I used a bearing tool to put it in.. but I used a slide hammer to bust it out.
Its a bit of a chore using the slide hammer, but easier than taking off the parking brake assembly.

[DEFKON99]

i got the bav auto bearing tool, pretty nice even comes with a moulded case.