Thread: Wheel bearing won’t fit?

Originally Posted by justinc

Unless the stub has hosted a total bearing failure, I've always gotten away with a strip of some emery cloth and some elbow grease.
It also helps to trial fit the bearings prior to fitting to hub and getting stuck half on etc

Thanks JC will have a go. Sounds quicker than trying to salvage another stub.

Finally got back to this tonight. Was about to order a new stub, and thought give the emery paper option a go. Nothing to lose.

It took about 30 seconds with a strip of 1200 wet and dry. So must have been a 100th of a bee’s dick of a lip.

Thanks heaps gents. Will get this finished without to much more delay now.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

You could use emery paper and clean up the stub if its not too bad.

I did this with my RRC many years ago.

Had to just to get it going to get to a shop to get new stubs.
fitted new stubs within a couple of weeks or so .. not long enough to find out the hard way if they fail or ruin bearings if rubbed down.

The bearing slid over the stub but was a very snug fit. So I’m assuming the stub is generally ok now the lip is gone.

I wouldn't bank on it!
For the lip to be there, that means the metal for it had to come from somewhere .. the stub shaft.
So this means that the stub shaft is 'missing metal'
You can't feel it because you can't put enough force on it to feel it, but the wheel will stress that small section of the stub shaft(remember there is now metal missing on the srface where the bearing is sitting.

Could be a short term solution to get you going, but don't rely on it.
I'd reckon more than likely the bearing will require adjustment again soon(in terms of klms driven, not so much time).
Alternatively it may wear quicker than it otherwise would due to more stress on it.

So plan on replacing the stub axle soon.

The bearing inner race will also snug up to the base of the inside seal surface radius , this will help keep the centrality. Obviously correct preload is required. Having seen literallly hundreds, if not more , of this kind of thing over the last 30years, almost specifically LR products , I would be just checking for looseness after a few hundred km. I anticipate you will have no issues.

Originally Posted by rar110

So must have been a 100th of a bee’s dick of a lip.

Or mine.

Originally Posted by p38arover

Or mine.

I wouldnt have said that...

with your propensity to purchase duff goods yours must be a fairly sized and stiff



lip...