kurt0811

I had the car in for inspection a few weeks ago, and all was well, but they thought the front wheel bearings could stand to be repacked. My question is this...how can I tell if they truly need repacking? The cars seems to drive fine, don't hear any odd sounds(although the exhaust is pretty loud). I was just going to drop it off at the shop, but on second thought, I didn't want to spend the $250 ( I've become increasingly frugal of late). From what I can tell online, it seems to be a relatively simple job ("I don't see too many Indians, General Custer, this should be a quick battle."), or would I be in over my head?. I had originally settled on the 87-89's so I could work on them myself. As someone here put it so well, "I'm not real smart, but I know how to Google."

Jim @ EuroWerks

I can tell you how sad it is to have to cut the fried bearing shells off of a spindle and have to call a customer and explain how expensive a repair will be now that the spindle is blue from the heat from the fried bearing. So, your 911, 87 maybe. How many times have they been repacked anyway? If no one knows, we'll assume never. It just makes since. The only way to really know how in need they are, is to take them apart. Sadly enough.

rusnak

If you only going to re-pack them, then you'll be fine I think. If the bearings need replacing, and for some reason you can't tell which brand the old ones are, then you might at worst need to take the hubs in to get the races pressed out. Don't mix brands between bearing race and bearing rollers. In other words, SKF races need to be pressed in if you have SKF bearings.

I agree that you should not assume they are in good condition.

The rear bearings are another story for another thread.

ivangene

Sorry if I didn't read all that, but for $50-70 you could just replace them by yourself. ( Worst xase add a few bucks for a shop to press out the old, and in the new races)