Kei Truck Wheel Bearing Replacement, Headlight Upgrade, and More! (1996 Suzuki Carry/Autozam Scrum)

[@tomreingold4024]

I heard a cicada in the first 30 seconds, and it made me smile. I’m in New York, and we don’t get many of them until later in the summer, and I love them.

[@DentedFenderGarage]

It’s actually a light year for them, but still a constant.

[@Tofu_Slayer]

I love seeing more kei truck content popping up

[@jerryrodgers6785]

Thanks for covering how you modified the wheel to fit. Greatly appreciate it! Now to find some cheap ones for my Carry…

[@DentedFenderGarage]

They are all over Facebook Marketplace.

[@trentjarvis1233]

Great videos. Iv got a 1995 I’m starting to work on. Good job on the bearings. The only other thing I normally do is put them in the freezer for a few hours. This will shrink them just a little. And help them go in. Keen to seen some more video of your carry. And maybe even put up some videos of my own.

[@quackerquad8627]

you may just be the inspiration to me buying one of these finally. Love the updates keep them coming. Please do me a little favor though, replace the keeper chains on the side and rear tailgates with new chain or painted ones, will make it look so much nicer for just a few bucks.

[@DentedFenderGarage]

I’m going to clean the surface rust and bedline it. I also just bought some wire loom to cover the chains to keep them quiet and make them look better.

[@rhythmandacoustics]

The bushing looked so loose. As for the bearings , yes you can keep the seal. Some bearings have no seal so you can put grease inside and some have already some lubricant inside. You cannot over tighten bearings. The bearings you have are radial load bearings and load is on the sides of the bearings all the time.

[@DentedFenderGarage]

Thank you.

[@Aesulf]

You can put the bearing in the freezer overnight, might be enough to drop it in place. It’s rather small though so I don’t know if that would shrink it enough. Worth the try.

[@sgrams3578]

Thank You! I plan on buying a mini truck from Mayberry this year. I just recently the past month discovered the mini truck and its availability.

[@brianwhite1776]

I plan on going up this summer to check their stock. Excited to get my first truck.

[@bertbccfu9564]

The bushing is so when you tighten the outer nut you wont crush the bearing , its so the inner races of the bearing have something to seat against

[@kevinwhite1077]

nice work mate nice to see a new video

[@DentedFenderGarage]

I appreciate this.

[@Oho159]

love these vids and kei trucks :)

[@DentedFenderGarage]

Thank you. I’m currently making more videos.

[@NelVolks2377]

Keep the vids coming huge fan here.

[@DentedFenderGarage]

Thank you kind sir.

[@Aesulf]

RS and RK is just the type of seal, they have different lips. You can pop the seal out if you want, they are greased for the lifespan of the bearing so you can leave the seal on to protect for dirt. I’d only remove the seal if the bearing was lubricated by oil (which is almost never for wheel bearing, don’t if anyone has seen oil lubricated wheel bearing)

[@nealgold8442]

Great job & video. Very informative

[@michaeldavid2320]

Not a big fan of Harbor Freight generally but they have a good set of bearing and seal drivers. Especially good for weekend warrior work.

[@DentedFenderGarage]

Harbor Freight is my jam for tools like this because I’m not a daily user. I’ll check it out.

[@nicholasreif3443]

Came here wondering if you could do a 5 lug swap. Replacing the wheel hub would give you a new bearing and more options for wheels.

[@DentedFenderGarage]

1. Anything is possible. 2. I have no lack of wheel options with 4x100, same as Honda, some BMW, Mazda, etc. 3. Finding matching axles and hubs would be crazy hard.

[@manuelavila2279]

Were did you get the heat light from.

[@DentedFenderGarage]

I got them from eBay. Search 7” round headlights, glass.

[@davejohansen5325]

I like you video. Very informative and helpful. I could find the bearin with number Koyo 62/28 RK but I could not find the Koyo 3604 RS. Could you provide me with the parts supplier. I need bearings for my DD51T 1996 Suzuki Carry

[@DentedFenderGarage]

I found mine on eBay and it was the only one offered by the seller. I don’t have a local bearing shop.

[@MrLuongtr]

What website did you use to get the clips along with the led and the adapter? Also what oil filter do you use for this truck

[@DentedFenderGarage]

The LED reverse polarity adapters came from eBay. I can’t remember what website I got the clips from, there are lots of websites and they are on eBay, but they aren’t cheap. I think I got them from a Canadian Minitruck website. I use a Puralator L14476 oil filter that is on the shelf at Tractor Supply for around $4.

[@rhythmandacoustics]

You can make your custom bearing tool to put back bearings if you do not have a hydraulic jack press. Get 2 steel plates. Drill hole on both plates on the center. Put threaded rod inside two plates. Put washers and nuts and those will sandwhich your parts and you just tighten the nus to keep pressing the plates.

[@DentedFenderGarage]

I’ve made similar for pressing bearing cups into bicycle frames, didn’t think to do that on this.

[@philipreasons3298]

Just a thought about staying symmetrical, If you had to modify wheels again , what about a brake cylinder hone? The type that is used for drum brakes .

[@DentedFenderGarage]

That would work but what I did worked as well.

[@KingTunaLLC]

What type of paint did you use after cleaning the rust. Like what is the name of the spray (: and mhhh i remember when i would paint primer before the main paint helped not show the rust

[@jcjonesconstruct]

Do you have the .stl file for the bed end caps, or a link to where I can find it?

[@DentedFenderGarage]

www.printables.com/model/299743-suzuki-carry-truck-bed-trim-parts

[@gotanksshine]

Maybe rubber mallet instead of using the old bearing as an in between.

[@florida__jack]

Great video and thank you for the bearing coverage! I have a Suzuki Every (DE51V) which I am restoring... Will you please tell me those bearing part numbers; so I can cross reference them with the OEM numbers? Thank you very much in advance! Subscribed for more maintenance videos!

[@DentedFenderGarage]

I’d check yours against mine, but what was in my 2wd is Outer: Koyo 6304rs Inner: Koyo 62/28RK.

[@florida__jack]

@@DentedFenderGarage I will double check both👍 Thank you very much🙏

[@Nick-li5jh]

if you need to seat a new bearing freeze them overnight and they will be much easier to put in. Also its better to have both sides sealed up. the less dirt and debris that hit that grease in the bearing the better. Those new bearings will last 10x longer because they are sealed

[@SatonProduction]

Where do you buy your parts and aftermarket parts?

[@DentedFenderGarage]

Some parts you can cross reference and find easily local, other parts are all over Amazon and eBay.

[@SatonProduction]

@@DentedFenderGarage thank you. How do you Luke your little truck?

[@DentedFenderGarage]

@SatonProduction I absolutely love it. Since I got it from port in March it’s become my daily and I hardly ever drive my Xterra anymore. I’ve turned down multiple offers from people to buy it. Makes me smile daily.

[@TheCathom]

Do you have a link for the clips, im doing the same install and broke the same two clips you did on the grill

[@DentedFenderGarage]

I forgot where I got them from. They’re kind of pricy. Search eBay.

[@isaacredditt3597]

Hey so love the video! I think I’m having the same problem was it a squeak? Like mine has a squeak only when turning its mostly so when turning left I couldn’t really hear it in the video but sounds like the same thing 🤔

[@DentedFenderGarage]

It’s more of sushing sound, like a rubbing, than a squeaking.

[@DentedFenderGarage]

But bearings can squeak.

[@isaacredditt3597]

@@DentedFenderGarage weird question but anyway I could send you this video I just took of it I’m at a loss and no one works on these trucks near me 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@DentedFenderGarage]

Go to my Instagram and try sending one through there. dentedfendergarage

[@isaacredditt3597]

@ sent you a message on there thanks for the reply!

[@scoops2]

Can you share the stls for the 3d printed parts?

[@DentedFenderGarage]

I just found it and added it to the video description.

[@jimcambron1328]

One of the things I noticed with my US-spec Samurai was the fact that the headlights were negatively-switched. This means a relay kit needed to be installed to make LED headlights work, Do you know if this is a common problem with Kei cars? Also, I would like to import a Suzuki Mighty Boy. Because it has a small pickup bed, do you think it will be subject to the 25% truck tax?

[@DentedFenderGarage]

I really think the negative switched headlights changes from manufacturer to manufacturer and year to year. I had my Samurai from 1996 until around 2008, back then people weren’t doing LED headlights so I never realized I had reverse wired lamps. As for the Mighty Boy, they’ll probably still call it a pickup and tax you, but the wording on the import papers and original title are what determines that. When it comes down to it, you can’t argue with customs. The second problem with the Mighty Boy is that they are going to be super rare and hard to find.

[@jimcambron1328]

@@DentedFenderGarage Thanks for the info!

[@robchase5584]

How tall are you, looks like knees very close to dash

[@DentedFenderGarage]

I’m 5’ 10”, it’s probably the camera angle because I have plenty of room and the seating is upright, not outstretched. I had a friend who’s 6’ 3” and around 300lbs get in the passenger side, his knees were on the dash but he said he’s actually been in worse. 😂

[@joebrown-df8il]

you broke the connectors theirs 2-two knobs inside under dash to remove to pull radiator panel off.

[@DentedFenderGarage]

Yep, that’s why I put the little graphics in the video. I didn’t know what I was doing. Oops.

[@TBRNmax]

Hi can we pls get a night drive pov

[@DentedFenderGarage]

I’ll try to get this done.