{"id":4505,"date":"2019-09-26T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2019-09-26T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T10:00:06","slug":"subaru-rear-wheel-bearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/26\/subaru-rear-wheel-bearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Subaru Rear Wheel Bearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was working on a used Subaru Forester, and found that it needed a rear wheel bearing. It’s a bolt-in wheel bearing, which are usually easier to replace than press-in, because you just have to remove the bolts and take it off, instead of having to the use a press to remove and install it.<\/p>\n

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On a few Hondas I’ve had to use an air hammer to loosen bolt-in wheel bearings when they’re stuck in the knuckle, but this one was the worst I’ve had to deal with. After trying everything I could on the car, I ended up removing the whole knuckle so I could get access to the back side of the bearing.<\/p>\n

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Luckily all the bolts came out easily and I didn’t break anything like I have in the past. I took the knuckle over to the press to try to get the bearing out that way, but all I managed to do was bend the backing plate up.<\/p>\n

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The way I ended up getting it out was by giving it to one of the other techs who heated the knuckle with a torch, and then him and another tech both used air hammers on it at the same time, and it finally came out. I ordered a new backing plate because the old one was now destroyed, and put it all together once all the parts arrived.<\/p>\n

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I was working on a used Subaru Forester, and found that it needed a rear wheel bearing. It’s a bolt-in wheel bearing, which are usually easier to replace than press-in, because you just have to remove the bolts and take it off, instead of having to the use a press to remove and install it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[58,65],"class_list":["post-4505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-suspension","tag-used-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}