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wheelbearings hubs and rotor

From 1989 Ford Bronco “TBA”, documented by publicjohncue.

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1989 Ford Bronco - After replacing my U-joints and the loud hum was gone I started to hear the other noises and vibrations. Like my wheel bearings in the fron… 1989 Ford Bronco - I proceeded to use the torx driver to remove the 5 screws of the OEM autohub. I found the inside of the hub cap to be caked with a hard bro… 1989 Ford Bronco - Upon examination of the Auto hub I found that the spring was broken. I removed lockring to detach the spring assembly from the hub. 1989 Ford Bronco - I removed the safety clip from the wire hub retainer and used pair of needle nose pliers to bring the two ends of the wire together and out… 1989 Ford Bronco - The auto hub was not coming out easily so I had made a handle for it to manipulate it as I was squeezing the wire retainer together. It had… 1989 Ford Bronco - Using the bearing nut socket I removed the bearing lock nut. 1989 Ford Bronco - next I removed the bearing washer. the many holes in the washer are for the pin in the bearing adjusting nut. Upon removal of the bearing a… 1989 Ford Bronco - here you can see the replacement pin Before being sized to fit the bearing washer. 1989 Ford Bronco - here is the adjusting nut as it should have been. 1989 Ford Bronco - I had removed the disc brake caliper pins and removed the caliper from the rotor. removed the rotor/hub assembly. I punched out the lug stu… 1989 Ford Bronco - using the beveled edge inbetween the hub and rotor I separated the two. 1989 Ford Bronco - The hub is being saved and the rotor replaced. the hub will be wire brushed and sandblasted taking care not to contaminate or damage the in… 1989 Ford Bronco - here is the hub after rehab and it is having the wheel bearing outer races pressed in. 1989 Ford Bronco - The lug studs were pressed in. 1989 Ford Bronco - here is the new brake rotor and the rehabed hub with bearings and grease inside. 1989 Ford Bronco - I had found the spindle to haver some crosed threads to I had to fix that and test the bearing nuts before assembly of rotor/hub to the spi… 1989 Ford Bronco - with the rear bearing seal pressed in I had slippped the bearings on the spindle and hand pressed the outer bearing with a tube matching th… 1989 Ford Bronco - The wheel bearing nuts were tightened and backoff a 1/4 of the way. and the adj nut, washer and lock nut done. time to move on to the Warne…