Hi All,

I'm currently mid way through replacing my rear wheel bearings as the inner bearing had failed, made a lot of noise and the race was fairly pitted.
I'm doing a dry fit of everything & test fitting the new inner race that sits on the hub & it is not a press fit - it's fairly snug but I can push the bearing race on/off the inner hub shaft with hands. Hopefully that makes sense- Please see pic below.

Is this bit supposed to be a tight/press fit?
I'm trying to work out if my hub has become excessively worn where the old bearing was installed, or if this even matters, but am struggling to imagine out how the entire shim/bearing assembly + preload would be affected by this not being a tight press fit.

Worth mentioning that when I disassembled it, every piece of bearing had to be drifted/pressed out which is what I was expecting, with the exception of this inner hub race which just fell out when I removed the splined shaft from the hub.




Cheers,

 

Asdrew,
The bearing should be quite a tight fit, but as yours is not falling-off loose I suggest that you use some Locktite bearing retainer on it then it will be fine. Assemble the unit, add the loctite to the bearing inner and press the race well home and let it go off. You may find post number 35 onwards on this thread a help in setting up the new bearinged hub's endfloat:
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...-225834/page2/

 

If you put the bearing on the hub and turn the hub upside down - does the bearing stay in place or fall off? That's my test for determining a worn hub. If the bearing slides off it's probably new hub time. If the bearing stays on you should be OK.