Perth bearing specialist

Biko

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Location
Falcon WA
Car Year
2020
Car Model
Forester Premium
Transmission
Auto
I need to get my Forester rear wheel bearings replaced. Can anyone recommend a specialist in the Perth area please. Thanks Biko
 
thunder039 said:
probably dont need a specialist your usual machanic that you trust will be able to do it
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Gidday Biko

I agree with Thunder (now there's a first ... :iconwink:), any competent garage mechanic can do wheel bearings. Probably blind-folded ... :lol:.

A long time ago, in a Galaxy a long way away, I have done wheel bearings with nothing more than a drift and single-jack sledge hammer ... and a lot of swearing.

It really isn't difficult job to do in a workshop, which will have an hydraulic press to do the hard parts, removing and re-fitting the outer races.
 
Agreed. Ratbag- what was your swear word to hammer strike ratio?
 
Gidday Rally

Rally said:
Agreed. Ratbag- what was your swear word to hammer strike ratio?
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Not nearly as high as it was when I hit the edge of my finger between that same single-jack and a ball joint, in the middle of the night, outside, at Mt Barker in SA, in mid-winter; for the second time in about five minutes ... :censored: :censored: :censored: :censored: :censored: :censored:

:poke: Did I mention that I swore once or twice?

I still have the scars some 30+ years later ...
 
Gidday Biko

Biko said:
I need to get my Forester rear wheel bearings replaced. Can anyone recommend a specialist in the Perth area please. Thanks Biko
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BTW, are you sure they need replacing?

Are they noisy?

If they are loose (clunking on cornering, and when you grab the road wheel and vigorously shake the car from side to side), but not noisy Fairly loud to extremely loud grinding or howling sound when travelling in a straight line), maybe they just need to have the hub nut adjusted?
Also BTW, tapered roller bearings will also be (very) noisy if they are too tight, or need greasing ...

One thing to remember with tapered roller bearings is that they need to have some play (not very much ... ), or they will very rapidly overheat and break.

Quite different from ball bearings, which have to be torqued up to the specified torque, which is often quite a high figure.
 
Forester Rear Wheel Bearings

Thanks for your reply. There is a noise like a jet plane from the rear. It started with a humming noise after the rear rotors were skimmed and pads replaced by the RAC 10,000 kms ago. I took it back a couple of times but they said they could find nothing wrong so I eventually took it to Subaru who said it was the rear wheel bearings but wanted $1,000 to replace them. Checking with the forums it seems it’s not an uncommon problem. I'm not inclined to take it back to the RAC again (I wonder if they overtightened the hubs when the rotors were replaced) and 3 local Mandurah mechanics all said they had not replaced them on a Forester before and didn't have the necessary hydraulic press, hence my query for a specialist in Perth.
 
Or you could remove the hub, go to a mechanic with a press, get the axle pushed out (if you don't want to hammer it out with a block of wood between it and the hammer or with a big rubber mallet) then the bearing casing, new one pushed in and you'll be sweet.

I did that with a mate's foz, worked a treat and the local mechanic was more than willing to help us out.

Cheers

Bennie
 
I'm a bit concerned about this fetish mechanics have for machining discs. 99% of the time it is not necessary. If you have a pulsating pedal, machining the disc will provide only a temporary reprieve. The culprit is either the pad material, the disc material or the way the car is driven, or some combination of them. Discs don't warp. So why machine the discs? The answer to a so called "warped disc" is often the same as when you have a shuddering clutch.
 
Do what I did recently. Remove the whole hub and take it into a competent mechanic and get him to do it. Cheaper than taking the whole car in.
 
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