All Avant wheel bearing replacement

[Jamo]

Did you not notice the monster of all presses at a that garage that did your engine cleaning think they have three in total..... Depends if i could be free to do them for nothing or they would do it for a wee fee if im not able to meet up with you...

Ah thanks for the offer car isn't local at the moment so be awkward to do so will be down where car is.

Slowly getting toward having a working car back!

[Rusty]

Not sure on the avant but IME on the coupe, the ABS sensor plugs are in the car so when you pull them through the chassis / body, attach some wire or string to them (that is also attached to a part of the inside of the car) and then it makes re-fitting easy as you just pull the string through and it routes the wires correctly. I've left the wires in the car for any future maintenance, should provide much confusion to anyone else too

[denniselbows]

when i did my wheel bearings a couple months ago i used a 10 ton bench press i got from machine mart did the job a treat. when pressing out the bearings one half tends to get pressed out of the bearing leaving the inner race on the hub and lots of ball bearings all over the place. not wanting this to happen when pressing the hub through the new bearing i pressed the new bearing onto the hub first then pressed the hub and bearing in to the other thingy bit with the abs sensor in. my bearing kits also came with circlips which wasn't required

[andy10v]

The bit I found fiddly on the b4 rear end was getting the grommet around the abs cable to sit into the the underside of the car before it goes under the seats. It was ok to fish through, but Andy's suggestion is a good one.

[Jamo]

Yeah done it once when I swapped to RS2 hubs can't believe got to mess with this lot again

[andy10v]

Sucks doing the same job twice, still it will all be worth it when it is all done properly.

[Jamo]

I hope so, I might post up the full story of the avant, it's kicked me in the ****** a few times during this running gear refresh