Thread: Converting D1 to oil hubs - of course it's not easy!

to remove the bearing race you need a good chisel and a heavy hammer.

with the chisel squarely applied to the bearing face of the race give it a belt move the chisel 5mm to the left and do it again 10mm to the right (5mm right of the start point), Rinse and repeat all the way around the shell if your lucky and you're hitting it hard enough the shell will come off before you get more than halfway around.


if theres no major lipping of the stub axle speedy sleeve the seal race add new bearings and you're away. If youve got some pitting on the stub you can get away with turning the stub axle around as they are symetrical.

Drain the duffs and check the oil
You said you did water crossing,so the diffs may full of water.
It dousnt take long to lose a wheel bearing after a dunking, check them all

Good luck with the chisel. I must be puny because I could not make any headway until I got the angle grinder out and went through most of the race.

I suppose you don't want to hear my wheel bearings are well over 225,000km old now

Timken, Timken and Tinken are good when it comes to taper roller wheel bearings for Land Rovers.

Of course if you drive Japanese NTN are very, very good too, the ones in our Patrol are 405,000km young

Originally Posted by slug_burner

Good luck with the chisel. I must be puny because I could not make any headway until I got the angle grinder out and went through most of the race.

That's how i've done them too, and I'm not puny

Originally Posted by slug_burner

Good luck with the chisel. I must be puny because I could not make any headway until I got the angle grinder out and went through most of the race.

GABH.

If Thor is not coming to you for pointers you are not hitting it hard enough.

Originally Posted by harry

Drain the duffs and check the oil
You said you did water crossing,so the diffs may full of water.
It dousnt take long to lose a wheel bearing after a dunking, check them all

Drained. In good time (a few weeks?), I will check the rest and convert to oil.

Originally Posted by rick130

I suppose you don't want to hear my wheel bearings are well over 225,000km old now

Timken, Timken and Tinken are good when it comes to taper roller wheel bearings for Land Rovers.

Of course if you drive Japanese NTN are very, very good too, the ones in our Patrol are 405,000km young

You're not helping!!!

Except for the Timken bit. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

GABH.

If Thor is not coming to you for pointers you are not hitting it hard enough.

When I turn sideways I disappear. I may need to hire some goons muscle.


Just thinking about this... Should I even bother removing it? There is already oil getting to the bearings and no oil is leaking outside of the hub. Seems remarkably close to my goal without changing any seals.

Yep, you should.

If I'm lazy I use my Air chisel with a specially ground and hardend point, takes about 3 fills of the tank and I havent had one last past 5.

of course that doesnt instill fear into the machine of what might happen to it if it doesnt stop fighting.


I can show you a set of 500K Km bearings if dad still has them if you want.

But just think about the diff bearings, how often do people change the wheel bearings compared to those?