so i need new wheel bearings and was wondering if anyone had a write up on them

 

Do you need front or rear wheel bearings?

 

If its a 4-wheel drive it actually called the hub assembly. Very simple to change as long as you are not in the rust belt.

Get a Haines manual and it will give you step by step. You do need a 12 point 13mm??? socket to remove the 3 bolts that hold the hub on the axle.

 

you will also need a torque wrench, and a 36mm socket to take the hub nut off.

 

front, and the haynes manual doesnt show it i dont think

 

Search this online.. its easy .. just type in the search field. dana 30 wheel hub replacement..
1st link: http://www.nagca.com/grandtech/dana30wheelbearing.htm

mark

 

go with the National Brand hubs. car quest 130.00 + tax
way better than the others. my opinion

 

The most difficult part is getting the hub out of the knuckle.If you were doing the drivers side---- What you do is reinstall the rear hub bolt about 1/2 way back in. Then you put a 15mm IMPACT socket over the bolt. Start your jeep, turn the wheel to the left making sure that the socket is being forced into the back of the knuckle and you will feel the hub pop out. Takes a second and no hub puller or using a chisel and a hammer. Hydraulic power is great. I just did this on my father in law's Dodge truck. He looked at me like I was crazy until the first one popped out in. This is hard to visualize but when you set it up it will make sense. Be sure to clean and coat all surfaces with anti seize so you never have to work hard to do that next time.
OMT Might want to consider changing your axle ujoints while you have it apart. Really easy to do when the hub is out. Better now than on the trail two weeks after you put the hubs in!

 

I bought a pair off ebay for $100 shipped..National Brand..\

Here's where I bought em..
http://stores.shop.ebay.com/PARTS-MA...__W0QQ_armrsZ1

 

Haynes and Chiltons are both pretty much animated garbage for 99% of cars.

Take the hit, if you plan to do any amount of work on your car, buy a real shop manual for your vehicle. They can run $50-150 depending on the car, but is worth it's weight in gold. I have one for each of my cars on CD. It makes it very nice. Find the section I need, print it out...and go do the work.

I have a hard bound for my old mustang and wish I had the electronic. It's dirty, oily but I tell you what, it'll walk you through step by step for everything with all the specifications, tools, etc that you need.

 

thanks for the help guys, looks like a nice project when i get paid on monday

 

Torque on 36mm nut is 175ft.lbs.

 

I have never understood the torques for the hub nut. It just seems like way overkill. I work with torques all the time and the hub nut is only a 1/4" bigger than the nuts that hold the rotor blades on a 58. But the torque is 3 times as much. Just doesn't make sense to me.

 

Sounds kinda cheap.
I just popped in a set of Timken's from autozone.
$150 each, made in u.s.a..
Chick at the counter tryed giving me the $100 made in CHINA specials.

Told her i didnt want communist crap on my Jeep.
She sure gave me the evel stare......must been a socialist....

 

Yeah price is cheap quality isn't. They are National Brand bearings which is what Napa sells. Timken bearings are made in china now anyways. National is made in the US. When you buy off ebay you have to question the seller and do research, if you do this you can often find some really good deals on quality parts.