Thread: Rear wheel bearings

Thanks for that - but I am now confused as people have indicated front and rears are a complete hub/bearing assembly but I may have misunderstood.

So with the rears you do just replace the bearings unlike the fronts where the hub is replaced?

Cheers

garry

Originally Posted by 101RRS

Thanks for that - but I am now confused as people have indicated front and rears are a complete hub/bearing assembly but I may have misunderstood.

So with the rears you do just replace the bearings unlike the fronts where the hub is replaced?

Cheers

garry

Yep, the front is a complete assembly so you unbolt it and bolt on a complete new unit. the rears you press out the old bearing and press in the new the refit to the car.

Cheers Ean

Either the wobble test or better still mechanics ears (can make your own for cheap too) are the best way to test. The test of turn left and right and listening for noise often identifies the wrong side.

You are all quite right to recommend Timken bearing in the hubs, nothing less, and they are usually much cheaper than genuine (which likely have Timken in them).
One cheapie seller on Ebay was offering a 3 year warranty on the bearings, but imagine the mucking about to claim on that lot.
When the service guys replaced all of mine (with non genuine but with Timken bearings in the hubs) they charged me "genuine" type price.
So I checked with state LR parts supplier, and Lo, they had genuine LR hubs on special at cheaper than "Timken" aftermarket brands.
(And I would have been about $400 cheaper on the full set if my service guy had checked with them first.........maybe he did and I was just charged anyway...who knows?)
So maybe check with your LR dealer first in case they have a "special" going.

Timken are the original, genuine supplier AFAIK. Getting the hubs in a Timken box or green box is the only difference. My new Timken hubs have genuine LR part numbers on them.

Cheapest I have found for Timken bearing front hubs (with nut) was $160 each (ex UK), but you still have freight on that.
So work that against whatever your best price will be from local supply for same.
I think when LR dealer had their special on front hubs, it was $245 each or thereabouts. (Pretty reasonable for Land Rover.)

That's about what I paid (LRDirect). Hard to say what the freight was as I got a (heavy) front diff and a few other things at the same time so shipping + duty added up. But their freight & duty calculator in checkout is pretty good so you can rack it up before you pull the trigger. One week from order to boxes arriving in semi-rural Vic. And most of that time was at this end. Not bad...

I done my RH rear @ 200,000 and the LH rear at 240,000. My disco is heavy on the rear axle as well with the 100L long range tank and kaymar twin spare rear bar + the 3rd row seats are nearly always in use as well

Both front wheel bearings where replaced at 174,000 not long after I first brought my D3