Bearings - front wheel replacement

[HispanicSlammer]

Replace bad wheel bearings I have been getting my bike ready for riding season, I had a warped front brake disk and it tore up one of my wheel bearings from all the rattling when I used the brakes. I don't know if the disk warped first or the other way around. I just had a day of bike maintenance today, new chain, new tires, new bearings, new front disk, new pads.

Here is my new disk, see how poor of shape the oil seal is.

You can tell your bearings are bad if you can move them back and forth or in or out, they should spin but not float around inside there.

Remove the brake disks 6mm hex 6 bolts.

I pried out the oil seals with a large flat screwdriver, then pushed a rod thru the inside and made contact with the outer bearing and hammered it out. You have to move the rod around so you don't get the bearing twisted up.

They were in bad shape that spacer needs to go back in, cleaned it up and greased it.

It was rusty in there, I cleaned it up with some steel wool and greased it up.

The new set $46 whew, I gotta find a cheaper source.

My bearing hammer heads, I use the threaded rod to compress the bearings into the slot first.

Make sure the bearing hammer is big enough to catch the outsides but not too big it wont fit.

Compress

The hammers have a handle on them you can attach and then bang the bearings in the rest of the way. I don't hammer them in right off the bat to keep them in strait and not damage them.

Put in the spacer and do the other side.