How To Change Tapered Wheel Bearings, Pre Load - 1965 Mustang

How to change tapered wheel bearings in a hub

[@brucejones2354]

One important thing is to make sure you have the inner bearing assembled before installing the outer seal. You can't believe how many times I've seen "mechanics" install the seal before they put the inner roller bearing in! One other thing, when installing the new race I always use a brass drift punch. Using a steel punch you run the risk of chipping a piece off the bearing and ruining the part, and the small piece then becomes a projectile that can impale you. Use eye protection when doing this. Take my word for it, having an eye surgeon remove small metal chips from your eye is not my idea of a good time! Thanks again Pete for all the great information you have given the beginning new mechanics out here ( and us old guys too)!

[@PetesGarage]

Great comment, thanks Bruce

[@arizonanorte3180]

Best 65 i6 stang 4 lug bearing install tutorial in the world, Thx bro"

[@PetesGarage]

Thanks my friend

[@Darrin_Wyatt]

I think they should change the name from dust cover to fm cover. Love the videos, you sir are a craftsman of automobiles.

[@PetesGarage]

Thanks Darrin

[@robertovens733]

Great video. Doing my disk brake conversion tomorrow and this was something I wasn't sure of. Great detail.

[@PetesGarage]

Thanks Robert

[@adambennett2176]

From one of your older awesome projects!!

[@PetesGarage]

Not quite

[@shawnlindemood6678]

Thanks for this video! I just found out my Galaxies rotors aren't part of the hub... since I'm replacing the rotors, I'm replacing the bearings. This is exactly what I needed to know!

[@PetesGarage]

Awesome! Thanks Shawn

[@SteveP-vm1uc]

The steel you are asking about looks to either come from a lathe bed or a mill.. Before I owned a press, I did it pretty close to the same as you, with a few differences. 1) I flipped the socket and installed an old 1/2" extension. That allowed me to keep my fingers down at the socket and bearing race until it met the face of the hub. Then 2) I have a pile of old races I keep in a box that were removed from other vehicles and that I ground down the outside diameter so that it would slide in and out of the hub easily. I used one of them to press the race the rest of the way home..

[@PetesGarage]

Good guesses, but no. Those are great suggestions, thanks Steve

[@ninjapumkin]

No offence but thank you for not going through where they are made. Just want an amazing how to video from you as usual

[@PetesGarage]

Well, the video is about changing them, not about the bearings themselves, no offense taken.

[@keyandaneshmand9915]

Good job

[@PetesGarage]

Thanks

[@danielesilvaggi]

Parallels they are. They look pretty old though. Great video I am going to be changing my rotors on my 1980 Camaro and they are almost the same but mine have the rotors built on them .

[@PetesGarage]

Good guess, but no. Good luck changing yours

[@SurlyMike]

Isn't that inner cavity between the bearings of the hub supposed to act as reservoir?

[@PetesGarage]

If you keep repacking the bearings, that's where the extra will end up

[@brucejones2354]

I've used similar pieces to clamp parts down on a mill.

[@PetesGarage]

Good guess

[@SteveP-vm1uc]

Hey Pete, do you ever hear from the guy overseas that you built the 440 for?? How did he like it??? What did it go into??

[@PetesGarage]

It went into a 1969 Coronet. He loves it, went me tons of videos

[@TheWtfnonamez]

I dont give a shit about bearings. Im just here because by the end of this video I will have learned some serious science!

[@PetesGarage]

Thanks

[@bryantcurtis2665]

Those two pieces of metal came from the steel factory where you worked. How to make them would take too long to comment and I would have to watch your previous video.Extra large T-shirt please🤪🤪🤪

[@PetesGarage]

Thanks Curtis

[@kevinbrand7992]

Are those from the track on a lathe?

[@PetesGarage]

That seems to be a common guess, but no

[@TheWtfnonamez]

The metal spacers are airframe aluminium.

[@PetesGarage]

They are steel

[@yafois988]

I keep hearing bad reports about Edelbrock heads "new in box”, having issues, like vlv seat run out, guides randomly are loose . Seems like we are forever now going to need to have the local machine shop disassemble the “New in Box heads”, and verify everything now. This has been going on years now.

[@PetesGarage]

I have not had that problem

[@brianwolent9593]

The steel is from a Bridgeport mill machine

[@PetesGarage]

Common guess, but no

[@petar443]

these are fixtures for cylinder head for resurfacing machine.

[@PetesGarage]

Good guess

[@garagehack2060]

So did anyone win the contest?

[@PetesGarage]

Well, nobody really guessed it right on

[@superduty4556]

That steel looks like some kind of tracks from a lathe

[@PetesGarage]

They are not

[@adambennett2176]

What did that socket ever do to you man!! Haha

[@PetesGarage]

I have extra sockets for things like this. I would have used my press, but not everyone had one

[@brucejones2354]

Using sockets as bearing installation tools is a well known trick for us "old" guys. I have a large number of multipurpose sockets in my tool box!

[@brucejones2354]

Maybe I shouldn't have said " us old guys". I wouldn't want people to think that Pete was included in the "old" category. LOL

[@robertponsford8493]

Off the base of a lathe or mill

[@PetesGarage]

Good guess

[@TheMarcusGomez]

Roller guide

[@PetesGarage]

Ok

[@chrisfreemesser5707]

I thought this was an excellent tutorial...most bearing replacement videos don't explain the various parts of the bearing. As for that steel, I'm going to guess they're some sort of a form from a metal bending machine

[@PetesGarage]

Thank you, good guess

[@OneDayWiserChannel]

Stone cutting blade/head guide?

[@PetesGarage]

Very close

[@garagehack2060]

Steel mill guides

[@PetesGarage]

That's the closest guess I would ever have expected, if nobody guesses right you'll will

[@garagehack2060]

Close don't count.

[@gaskinsgarage4192]

Isn’t that peace for a window on a skyscraper.

[@PetesGarage]

I wish it were

[@dcroston7273]

A pieces of an old bridge

[@PetesGarage]

That's interesting. but no