Mk3 Swivel Bearings - UK

[BikerBen]

Hi all

The beers are on me!

Right down to business, I have a 1990 mk3 2.4d 4x4 that I am getting ready for her MOT. I have had lots of issues to sort out so far, and have managed to sort most of them. The next job is an overhaul of my front hubs with new wheel bearings, swivel bearings and seals etc. Now I have an Australian workshop manual for the Hilux/4Runner which shows how to do the work.

Now for the problem, shimming the swivel bearings. The procedure sounds fairly straight forward but you need some special Toyota service tools to do it. I have been to my local Toyota dealership and they refuse to sell me these items saying its company policy not to sell them

Is there another way of going about this? or are these tools available from a third party??

Cheers for any help

[trains]

Hi mate,
If your talking about the solid live axle front end, I dont know what special tools are required to do the job. I didnt need any when I did it.

a normal 3/8 socket set in metric
beer
circlip pliers
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good punch and drift set
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hammer/ persuader/ knockometer etc
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good scraper to clean off all the muck
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I used the existing shims and kept them seperate top and bottom, and when I checked the drag, they were ok.

I also used a soft drift to tighten the hub nuts.........oh the shock, the horror . However a correct sized socket would also work well.

Used a screwdriver to gently remove the front axle seals from the housing, and some basic punches to remove the inner bearing cones.
I think they suggest a special tool to remove the bearings from the steering arm top piece, and corresponding lower piece.
I just gently tapped them out with a drift, very little effort required, infact they usually pull off after a slight tap.

hope that helps mate

Trains

[BikerBen]

What brand should I use, Kronenbourg or Stella Artois?

Thanks for the reply, I have asked this question on another forum and both sets of replies seem to say the same thing.

I think that I will leave the beer drinking until after I have finished, last time I manged to hook up the jump leads to the wrong battery terminals whilst 'drinking' and frazzled my two batteries

[rockcrawler31]

gag, choke, cough.

neither of those two beers is suitable for car work mate.

you should make the best of the summer you have left

drink a nice scrumpy cider or a dorchester stout

But i'm a dorset lad when in England so i'm biased

[BikerBen]

Cider is fine by me, however I find it goes to my head far too easily and I have to stick to Coke whilst spannering

Looks like I have yet another weekend ahead of me working on the Hilux

....thats aswell as fitting a newer rad to the Prelude

[badger]

they is a company on ebay that sells the correct sized hub socket
they are about 30 bucs aussie
would be well worth the purchase as im guessing this is the "specialised" tool toyota wont sell you

[badger]

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Hub-Socket-Landc ... dZViewItem

[BikerBen]

I'll have a look on the uk ebay cheers!

What size is it? I've always used the drift method as mentioned above in the past

[BikerBen]

54mm I have just learnt to read