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Quote: Originally posted by russ-g-uk on 11/4/2023

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Thanks for your replies. So am i correct in saying that, after dis-assembly and clean up, I then press the 2 bearings into the hub - one from each side? Then take the hub/bearing assembly and slide this onto the axle (would it "slide" on or would it also need force to put it back on, possibly disturbing the bearings from where they have been pressed into the hub?).

I've looked on YouTube but struggle to find anything relative to my scenario. There's one I found which is installing sealed bearings but not using a castle nut. Some things I've read say to torque up to a given value (say 60nm) then back off and redo finger tight, others say tighten the castle nut until you feel resistance on the hub rotation, then back the nut off. Then others that you just do the nut finger tight but my concern with that was, as I've said above, how would I know the bearings are seated correctly after assembling onto the stub axle?

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Quote: Originally posted by martin734 on 11/4/2023

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Are you sure they are sealed bearings and not cage and race bearings?

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Quote: Originally posted by tango55 on 11/4/2023

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Without being too critical...

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Quote: Originally posted by Colin21 on 11/4/2023

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When I used to do car repairs many years ago there was a type of bearing that you did put in the way the O/P described. Tighten them in to a certain torque, then back off the nut, retighten finger tight and fix the castle nut with a split pin. However, it's years since I've done that and I don't remember for certain what type of bearings they were. They could have been taper roller bearings.

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Quote: Originally posted by tango55 on 12/4/2023

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If the bearing is a taper roller bearing then the application of refitting is totally different. You have to grease the bearing first, place it in the cavity then screw the securing bolt on finger tight only. You then have to spin the road wheel and tighten up the nut respectively till you feel some resistance. You then back off the nut very slightly and spin the road wheel so there is no movement horizontally or vertically but spins freely. The science behind the fact is that bearings get hot with constant friction which the heat expansion has to be allowed for and only an experienced person knows how to apply the required allowance.
However, I wasn't been over critical in my last post, just the fact of being honest and truthful because I don't know from a person's post how much knowledge or experience they actually have which is very much like a teacher not knowing how clever each of their pupils are in class.

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