Had a great drive up the road from MNR to the Borders today, car drove really well until i took it out for 'one last blat' tonight and the wheel bearing packed in.

I'm using cortina uprights, assuming i can get the part, how hard are these to fit? Can i get away with some heat and a hammer or do these require a press?

Anybody got some rough instructions? I dont have a manual here.

Apart from that, i've been driving around with a MASSIVE cheesy grin all day.

Cheers


David

two bearings, easy to handle.
Take off wheel, brake
then remove central nut behind cap.
Two outer rings can be easy kicked out by a hammer.

grtz

congrats for finally getting it on the road!!!!

hope the g/f likes it

The bearings don't need a press or any special tools and are simple to replace and easy to obtain. I usually tighten them up till the wheel binds then slacken them off till it turns freely and you can get a split pin through one of the castellations in the nut.

Thanks for the help, I managed to find the last remaining cortina wheel bearing in Scotland on Saturday morning, phoned around everywhere locally and in Edinburgh to no avail. In the end Halfords came up trumps, they didnt stock it, but they did give me the name of their supplier, (Dingbro) who wouldnt sell it to me because i'm not a trade customer. In the end the chap at halfords (Not your average store, small town, local people, that sort of thing.) phoned in the order and I went up to collect it.

Btw, Quinton Hazel part number is qlb511b.

Took the old one off, inside bearing took quite a large tap to get off the hub, the outside one was a doddle.

Removing the outside bearing from the stub axel was a bit of a mission, there wasnt enough left of the old one for the bearing puller to grip, so in the end I had to cut a small groove in it and split it off with a good dunt with a hammer.

Thanks to Mike Rankin, the walking, talking Haynes manual for the torque settings, and for all your help and persuation.

I made it back to the continent, covered almost 1000 miles now, and apart from the wheel bearing, and some minor problems with the brakes and tickover needing minor adjustment, its all good.