Hub/Wheel Bearing

[korisu56]

My bearing went to shit last night, making the jeep undrivable. Do I need the whole assembly or can I just replace the bearing?

[Devildog]

Chris, I dont know for sure if the tj is the same but on a YJ all you have to replace is the bearing assembly. Im to lazy to check out the breakdown on q-tech

[korisu56]

Hmm...bearing assembly. I'm sure we have the same fronts unless yours is HP, so I'm gonna look at the breakdown.

[Devildog]

Mines high pinion but there is only 3 bolts that hold mine in. Takes me a couple minutes to get it off after the wheel is off. It takes a 12 point socket.

[korisu56]

Roger. We have the same outers then. The three on mine are also 13mm 12 points.

[Devildog]

Piece of cake Bro. take your outer axle retaining clip and nut off. then you can take the 3 bolts out and then pry that sucka out. reverse the process with the new bearing assembly.

I am not a jeep expert but I did sleep at a holiday in express last night :D:D

[korisu56]

Oh, I know how to take apart the entire assembly, thanks to a mishap replacing a u-joint, but I just wanted to make sure I didn't have to drop ~120 bucks on a new hub assembly. I cannot find the "bearing assembly" that is being discussed.

[korisu56]

Some guy on JF said that the bearing assembly=hub assembly.

[korisu56]

http://www.quadratec.com/products/52417_05.htm

[Devildog]

Ok you made me look, is this it? Click and scroll down to #37

http://www.quadratec.com/advisor/jeep_oem_replacement_parts/axle/axleTJ30F.php


Or this--->>>> http://www.quadratec.com/products/52417_04.htm

[korisu56]

we are calling the same thing different names :)

[Devildog]

hahahaha, we posted close. Dude come on out to luray and we can have that done lickity split. Hell you almost came by on sunday

[Devildog]

Yeah that is all one assembly


http://www.quadratec.com/Assets/Images/5264/5264-lg.jpg

[korisu56]

Shit, that jeep's going nowhere in the shape it's in. We had it disassembled on the side of I-81, but the flipping parts stores closed in 3 minutes

[Devildog]

Chris, your jeep is on 81, If it is I can get it and store it here.

[korisu56]

You think I'd leave my jeep on the side of the road :eek:

With all the bad luck, my buddy had AAA and I got a free tow home. God Bless him. :)

[muddyluxury]

if you havnt already bought it, try t-rex auto parts i have thier hubs on my jeep and at 50 bucks a pop its not bad

[crazy4ink]

Those unitized bearing assemblies suck. I went through 2 of them before my Jeep even had 10,000 miles on it. I finally got fed up with them and went with the manual hub conversion. That was before I went to full-width axles.