bearings in front rotors?? 96 2wd

[stackz]

was grinding my front rotor hats down for my bullit wheels on my 96 and realized the front right one's outer wheel bearing was completely toasted (that explains the wobble on the highway).

anyway, how to you remove the bearing races to replace them and also how do you replace the inner wheel bearing as well??

as of right now I just bought a new outer bearing and packed it and tossed it in with the old bearing race as miraculously it wasnt chewed up. I noticed both inner wheel bearings on both rotors (decided to check both over and regrease) are loose as hell but intact. I'd just feel more comfortable replacing them all with new bearings. hell, might even go buy new rotors as well if they are cheap enough.

anyway, how do you get the bearings out to replace. also, do new rotors come with the bearings installed already??

 

[kcm1582]

I'm not sure if the old bearing races are removable, but if they are it would take a shop press to push them out. New rotors should already have the races installed.

 

[AllanD]

was grinding my front rotor hats down for my bullit wheels on my 96 and realized the front right one's outer wheel bearing was completely toasted (that explains the wobble on the highway).

anyway, how to you remove the bearing races to replace them and also how do you replace the inner wheel bearing as well??

as of right now I just bought a new outer bearing and packed it and tossed it in with the old bearing race as miraculously it wasnt chewed up. I noticed both inner wheel bearings on both rotors (decided to check both over and regrease) are loose as hell but intact. I'd just feel more comfortable replacing them all with new bearings. hell, might even go buy new rotors as well if they are cheap enough.

anyway, how do you get the bearings out to replace. also, do new rotors come with the bearings installed already??

Unless I had previously thrown the rotor into a large body of water and had a mail clad woman rise from the lake and hand it back to me I'd say "screw it" and simply buy another rotor.

Rotors come with races already pressed into them.

Now to ask, why are you GRINDING the structural part of the rotor to make wheels fit?

If I really wanted to put wheels that had center holes too small
to fit the rotors I'd find a machine shop with a big enough lathe
to open the center hole in the rim.

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[stackz]

its common practice for the foxbody mustang guys that do a 5-lug swap using ranger parts to grind the rotor hat down as thats what gets in the way of most sn95 mustang wheels and why most of you guys are using wheel spacers with longer lug studs and deepthread lugnuts...

I didnt want to buy lug studs/spacers/nuts so I just did what I do to my foxbody cars. its not bad either if you knew what I did. that part of the rotor simply holds the dustcap on and I've gotten really good at grinding it down and still retain use of the dustcap.

just got done at the u-pull at lunch break pulling a pair of rear swaybar links. man what a pain in the butt that was.

 

[AllanD]

I suppse if I HAD to do what you are doing I'd still use a lathe...

turning down the rotor instead of grinding it would make the engineer/machinist
inside me a whole bunch happier...

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[stackz]

I suppse if I HAD to do what you are doing I'd still use a lathe...

turning down the rotor instead of grinding it would make the engineer/machinist
inside me a whole bunch happier...

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not everyone has access to a lathe lol. that and I like to do things myself so I just grinded them down against my bench grinder and mic'd them every so often. got to regrind the passenger side one just a "tad" as the wheel still wants to shift a little off center lol.

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

Pound out the races with a punch and hammer, one comes out each side of the rotor. You will need new grease seals for the inner bearings. Get a bearing race driver (or grind down the outside of the old bearing race so it fits a bit loose into the hub and use it to drive the new races in.

Why would you replace a perfectly good rotor just to replace the race? We do this day in day out at the dealership I work at with no ill effects whatsoever...

 

[AllanD]

not everyone has access to a lathe lol. that and I like to do things myself so I just grinded them down against my bench grinder and mic'd them every so often. got to regrind the passenger side one just a "tad" as the wheel still wants to shift a little off center lol.

That would be my issue, there are enough vibrations from other causes so that I've resist strongly creating any more sources...

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