Front wheel bearing replacement.

[Engineerbasher]

I figured I'd share this with whomever finds themselves fighting with stuck bearing assembly. 

 

The bolts are regular 1/2 inch grade 2 carriage bolts with nuts and washers. I tightened the nuts up and gave the hub a good wack to break it loose then just worked it out by turning the nuts on the back of the hub until it came out. 

[5rebel9]

Certainly a "novel" approach to a "sticky situation"!

  In my climate area, we try our best to not have to remove the rotor dust shield as those small 6mm bolts tend to just snap off the heads and leave you with more "fixing" to do.

[John/Horace]

Yeah torch or induction heater on those small shield bolts; then back in with anti seize or dab of grease. You can sure tell it's a southern vehicle; the salt does so much more damage on northern vehicles. Makes me jealous.  My back wheel bearing hubs needed new 16mm bolts because of corrosion.

 

I like the cost effective diy puller; cheap and very effective. I was using two cold chisels as wedges and a 5 pound club hammer in my early wheel bearing work. Finally got a cheapo Harbor Freight/Princess Auto sliding hammer about five yrs ago. Fast but sometimes you have ball bearings flying across the garage. But I prefer swapping a hub over pressing in a bearing any day.