Being humble in your job

[Sleeper_Avant]

being humble..........

i work for a large company in the garage indistry (with no names mentioned please!)

my sole purpose is to carry out in depth diagnostic work and major jobs that the centres are not allowed to do

and wipe their backsides when they screw up or break customers cars (i do this mostly lol! )

anyway today i put a wheel bearing in one of the S2 hubs i have with a press in one of my centres

i made a propper **** of it

pressed the drive flange out of the hub, perfect
pressed the old bearing out of the hub, perfect

pressed the new bearing into the freshly dressed and greased hub, perfect
pressed the freshly dressed and greased drive flange into the new bearing, per..... aaah bollix!!!! put the bearing in upside down!!!!

pressed the drive flange out and it split the bearing from the housing

anyway 5 attempts of messing about i got it put together propperly and everything how it should be

needless to say the lads took the pi55 right out of me

what can i say, we all make mistakes and its been 3 years since i did any sort of menial tasks like change a wheel bearing lol

anyone got similar experiences?

Sean

[audinut]

er question how do you determine which way is the right way up , when i pressed my bearings out i noticed no cir clips , i guess im going to have to measure both sides of the bearing unless theres another way ??

[djh]

one side is ever so slightly larger from memory, you will see if you look at it (there is a line down the middle)

[Sleeper_Avant]

correct, the outside (CV end) is slightly larger

[audinut]

yea i think its something like 46mm/48mm i think thats what i read somewhere

[audinut]

http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26872

[rj scotty]

The man who never made a mistake............ never did anything