Wheel Bearing Replacement with Basic Hand Tools

First step will be to remove the dust cap off of the wheel and before you jack up the car it's a good idea to loosen up the axle nut it just makes it a little bit easier if you don't have any air tools. What I'm using here is a breaker bar and then a pipe over the breaker bar to give me that extra leverage and in this case this bolt is one and one quarter inch. Then go ahead and loosen up your lug nuts and again I'm using a pipe over the lug nut wrench just to give me that extra leverage. It's easy on your back and it's easy on your arms and shoulders. Then go ahead and jack up the car. Don't forget to use jack stands. Go ahead and remove all of the lug nuts and take the wheel off of the car. Now in this next step we need to remove two 15 millimeter bolts from the caliper and as you can see here they they can be pretty tight especially if mechanics install these or do brake jobs with impact wrenches. So to loosen it I'm using a 15 millimeter wrench and tapping it with a sledge hammer and then using the ratchet to remove the bolt. You want to do this for the lower bolt as well as the top bolt. Then go ahead and remove the caliper and get yourself either a bungee cord or some zip ties and tie it to the shock spring of the strut. Just get it out of the way so as you continue to work it's not in your way. Now the caliper mounting bracket has two bolts. Here is the first one and there is the second one. These are 15 millimeter bolts and now go ahead and remove both of these. And of course don't forget to remove the brake pads. Now go ahead and remove the axle nut. Tap the rotor and also tap the the axle spline right there. But essentially what you want to do is remove all of the rust so the rotor can come off of the hub. And you'll need to do this for a couple minutes. Don't hit the part of the rotor where the brake pads make contact. Just do it in the center of the rotor as you can see here. And if you have a puller that would that will be even easier. But if you don't have a puller you can use this technique as well. After you've done that for a couple minutes go ahead and tap the back of the rotor with a rubber mallet. Then get yourself a piece of wood and lightly tap the side of the rotor and it should come off rather easily like so. If it doesn't just continue repeating the steps until it does. Now the bearing is held on by three 13 millimeter bolts. Here's where the first one is located right here on the back side. Then you have two others on the other side. Now these can be rather tight. If you don't have any air tools and you'll see it in a few seconds. What I did is I used a ratchet and then I put a pipe over the ratchet to give me some extra leverage. And that's the way I was able to loosen them up because they were very very tight. So after I did this on each bolt I was able to remove them. So go ahead and remove all three. Alright once you wrap that up you have a plastic tab which holds on the abs connector. Just untab it or click it in. And then what you also need to do is you have the abs sensor still hooked up. Just disconnect that and then you'll be able to remove the bearing from the vehicle. Then go ahead and reinstall your brand new bearing. Reconnect the abs sensor and reinstall the mounting tab to the metal bracket. Reinstall the three bolts holding on the hub and tighten these to 60 foot pounds. Reinstall the rotor and the caliper mounting bracket. Now the bolts holding on this bracket you need to tighten them to 80 foot pounds. Reinstall your brake pads. What I'm doing here is I'm compressing the piston back into its bore just because it was a little tight reinstalling the caliper. So you could do this if you want just as you can see a couple turns just to slightly push in the piston back into its bore and then reinstall the caliper. And when you reinstall the two caliper bolts you want to tighten these to 50 foot pounds. Reinstall your axle nut and make it snug for now. When we reinstall the wheel and lower the car back down we'll tighten this nut to 118 foot pounds. Reinstall the wheel along with the lug nuts. Snug down the lug nuts with your lug nut wrench. Lower the vehicle and tighten the lug nuts to 100 foot pounds. Then go ahead and tighten the axle nut to 118 foot pounds. The last step is to reinstall the dust cover and that's it you're all set. Any questions please leave them below and I hope this video helped you out.