Opel:: Kadett E:: Replacement of the bearing of a forward wheel

12.3. Replacement of the bearing of a forward wheel

Arrangement of the hug bearing of a forward wheel

And – an external lock ring of the bearing,

In – an internal lock ring of the bearing

PERFORMANCE ORDER

1. Remove a rack of a forward suspension bracket together with a rotary fist.
2. Unscrew the screw and remove a brake disk from a nave.

3. For extraction of a nave from a rotary fist use a press and a tubular mandrel of the corresponding diameter. Alternatively arrange two steel cores between a nave and a rotary fist and, screwing in two bolts of fastening of a wheel (the drawing at the left), take a nave from a rotary fist (the drawing on the right).
4. Unscrew bolts and remove a protective board of a brake disk from a rotary fist.
	5. Remove the lock rings fixing an external ring of the bearing from a rotary fist. Opiry an internal part of a rotary fist on supports and using a tubular mandrel of the corresponding diameter, squeeze out an external ring of the bearing from a rotary fist.
6. Using a stripper, remove an internal ring of the bearing from a nave.
7. Clear a nave and a rotary fist of dirt and lubricant. Establish an external lock ring of fastening of the bearing. Keep in mind that uvulas of a lock ring have to be turned to the basis of a rotary fist.
8. Reliably fix a rotary fist on supports and install on it the bearing. You make installation of the bearing with use of a tubular mandrel which has to press on an external ring of the bearing. The bearing install against the stop it in an external lock ring.
9. Establish an internal lock ring of the bearing that uvulas of a lock ring were turned to the basis of a rotary fist.
10. Establish a protective board of a brake disk.
11. Install a nave in the bearing, at the same time use a tubular mandrel which presses on an internal ring of the bearing. The nave press fitting in the bearing can be made with use of a long bolt, nut and washers of the corresponding diameter.
12. Establish a brake disk.
13. Install a rack of a forward suspension bracket with a rotary fist on the car.