Wheel Bearing Replacement 1987 GMC S-15

Changing Wheel Bearing In My Little Truck

[@Tippinonthree]

Great video. Very informative. Liked listening to him talk

[@CoalCrackerCummins]

As a wise old man once told me, "If it moves grease it, if it doesn't paint it." Lol

[@charleswilson4598]

Some years ago my Dad was doing a brake job on his 1992 F150. While he was at it he was going to re-grease his wheel bearings. When he saw the "Japan" on his bearings he refused to put them back in. He went to the parts store and bought some Timken, made in USA bearings. A few years later I bought the truck, and many thousands of miles later I decided I needed new bearings. I tried to find Timken, made in USA bearings, but couldn't find them. I finally got them online from a bearing supply company in Michigan. They were able to get the Timken made in USA bearings but they told me that even Timkens are made in several countries, including China.

[@cenexes12]

Not to be rude but your dad was an idiot. Japanese metal works manufacturing has some of the worlds best tolerances and high quality of metals. It is so precious to the Japanese to have such high quality that most automotive parts like bearings and valves are made in tiny little shops with men who spent their lives mastering that parts creation. Even the Japanese mass produced parts like that have the forge molds checked for tolerances every 5 to 10 parts.

[@charleswilson4598]

@@cenexes12 That was very rude but my Dad was a very, very good mechanic. People brought cars to him that other mechanics couldn't fix. and he was not a pro. But his objection to the Japanese bearings had nothing to do with their quality. He was a young man during WW2, and he like many people of that era despised the Japanese. Over the years he mellowed some but not much. Was that prejudicial, racist? Probably but that is the way he felt about it. I inherited that truck and was replacing brakes and decided to replace those old wheel bearings. There they were, Timkens, made in USA. So, I was looking for bearings made in USA. I did find them from a bearing supplier in Michigan, but they told me even Timken bearings were now manufactured in several different countries. That truck my Dad had also had a transmission made by Mazda. :o)

[@melindaortiz9741]

China taking over slowly

[@chevymalibu8072]

In switzerland when we replace wear and tear parts we prefere chinese parts over US Made. Since about 10 Years the quality of US made parts is crap... even made in mexico parts hold up longer and are more reliable than US Parts. Still love the US and its cars, put you guys seriously need to step back from ypur high horse and have to accept that the asian parts are often times better than yours.

[@chevymalibu8072]

In switzerland when we replace wear and tear parts we prefere chinese parts over US Made. Since about 10 Years the quality of US made parts is crap... even made in mexico parts hold up longer and are more reliable than US Parts. Still love the US and its cars, put you guys seriously need to step back from ypur high horse and have to accept that the asian parts are often times better than yours.

[@jeremyrogers1336]

I have a 1983 cutlass supreme and its been garage kept for the 5 years ive owned it.....anyway my truck broke down and im driving the cutlass at the moment, found after replacing the rear drums that the front wheel bearing was screaming! I looked up videos to watch what ill be running into and this video has the same setup as my classic so thank you for making this video. Always nice to see it before you do it

[@Celeretrix]

This helped a lot, feel pretty confident to do it myself now. Thanks!

[@CTSCAPER]

That was fun to watch. Shiny tools don't mean a thing if you don't know what you're doing. Thanks for showing the way.

[@pr8rfabrc8r96]

Straight to the point. THANKS

[@MikeY-tr1yf]

Your a great help man i really appreciate videos like this

[@saxdude1993]

Super helpful video! Thanks so much!

[@shelleymccarty1584]

Thanks all I needed to see

[@GeraldGamble]

Hope it helps

[@TheLordIsAlmostHere]

Great help sir!!

[@kennethdavis459]

Great job I have a Chevrolet Silverado 85 C10 I know the feeling that it's got to doing all that hard work myself it wasn't too bad

[@albertolivarri3059]

Best video on how to I’ve found..

[@IndianTruckWorkshop]

Nice work dude 👍👍

[@enriquemartinez16]

Absolutely outstanding

[@icqtrinity]

Very helpful, thank you👍

[@davewatson2124]

Don't worry about putting the camera on the area of work when removing the old races. I guess we are supposed to know that already. GEEEEEZ

[@GeraldGamble]

Really didn't wanna get my camera greasy by moving it around. Plus I was using a still image camera so I could not see exactly what I was shooting. I thought it was in frame but I saw it wasn't when I reviewed it. And really didn't wanna do it again.

[@davewatson2124]

@@GeraldGamble Sorry to be picky. Thanks for your video.

[@kirkcollison3882]

Good info. Thank you

[@happysingle9226]

good job thanks !

[@neilalexander7173]

This help me ah lot

[@truiz555]

Thanks to u I replaced all the races that i didn't know anything about! Thank you

[@GeraldGamble]

tonychevyobs 1500 your welcome.

[@DUTCHMASTER67]

Thank you so much

[@jameslamark3032]

thanks for the info never install the race on my 1992 chevy 1500

[@WPGinterceptor460Interceptor]

should lube up the spindle a bit before putting the rotor back on

[@glowdog6321]

"If it doesn't move, pick it up. If you can't pick it up paint it, if you can't paint it put a fence around it." USMC

[@everetteromero1799]

I got a question . you had to remove the back bearing with seal from rotor . what if you remove the rotor and the back bearing is stuck to spindel? Is that a bad sign of something? And if you install it like that will it cause damage?

[@GeraldGamble]

Yes it will not go on very easy. And more than likely you will have to c change the spindle

[@everetteromero1799]

Ok thanks a lot

[@danakibby627]

Supposed to put grease on the spend or inside the road or not just the barring

[@GeraldGamble]

I did after the fact. Filled the cavity after camera turned off. Lol

[@thanhvi3348]

Why are you using old dirty grease

[@thanhvi3348]

How do I know how much to tight the castle nut so that my wheel bearing dosen''t burnt up

[@GeraldGamble]

Tighten it good and snug. Then back it off just a bit until the bearings are able to spin with a very small amount of drag

[@tilermeeder2541]

Can I just buy the whole hub assembly and not have to do all this? Or does it not work that way

[@GeraldGamble]

No. Not on the square chevy s-10 / gmc s-15, but these are very inexpensive, 40 dollars for everything to do both sides.

[@ginganinja9135]

Any idea how to take the front bearing off it doesn't want to pop out ?

[@GeraldGamble]

Cut it very carefully. And don't cut anything else.

[@ginganinja9135]

Think a hack saw blade would work ?

[@GeraldGamble]

That would be my choice

[@ginganinja9135]

Thanks things being a pain

[@CenturyofTerror]

Just buy the hub assembly... it's not that expensive and all this is already done

[@josephmorro5744]

Is changing the rear wheel bearings the same steps as changing the front wheel bearings? Is it at all different?

[@GeraldGamble]

Totally different

[@josephmorro5744]

Do you have a video of the procedure to do the rear wheel bearing ? Thanks for the response. I really like this video.

[@GeraldGamble]

No. I don't have that on video. And I don't even own that truck anymore.

[@melindaortiz9741]

Take apart axle

[@MichelLinschoten]

Slightly painful to watch but good job :P

[@scraplifetrashtocash4551]

Why didn't u replace the koter pin? That holds the Castle nut on? U should never use the koter pins twice.

[@GeraldGamble]

Have to live life on the edge every now and then. I didn't have a new one. But the next day I replaced it with a new one once I pick 2 up. One for each side.

[@danakibby627]

You also have some steer parts bad when you grabbed a left right that’s a steering issue up and down is a Wheel barring

[@trevorellis9639]

Wrong

[@GeraldGamble]

Little truck had almost 300,000 miles on her and 150,000 of that was with a v-8 daily driven, since then the frame broke and been since retired. It was a fun 16 years of driving it tho.

[@audioduran8235]

My front barring is stuck to my spindle just the ring i have everything else off

[@GeraldGamble]

Good luck lol. Good grinder. Steady hand. Or a cutting torch without damaging spindle

[@audioduran8235]

@@GeraldGamble dam lol alright man thank u

[@GeraldGamble]

Actually be damn lucky that the spindle is not destroyed already because the bearing had to create heat to fuse to the spindle.

[@audioduran8235]

@@GeraldGamble oh man i hope not it’s not messed up

[@audioduran8235]

@@GeraldGamble hey man thank u! I got it cut and I was able to put my rotor back on