So my passenger side rear bearing is bad and I purchased a new one. However after looking at the how-to on the stickies I see the hub comes with a nut. I searched some and that nut was called a "one-time use nut"...

Kind of a stupid question but can I reuse that nut somehow? How do I go about swapping the old hub onto the new bearing?

Good luck even getting the nut off.
You buy the rear hub/bearing as an assembly and replace the whole unit.

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Everywhere I searched (eBay, RockAuto) sold the thing as just the bearing with the 4-bolt flange.

That's why you go to autozone or advance auto. They have the whole package.

http://www.autozone.com/autozone/parts/Dur...65361_0_0_32452

new nut
http://www.autozone.com/autozone/parts/199..._/N-j1pcaZ8oz6r

This post has been edited by mkernz22: Aug 24, 2012 - 8:10 PM

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So it's just an axle nut like any other? I thought it was something special. I'll be doing the work of taking it out and putting it back on and I'll take it to my mechanic to do the pressing and impacting the nut on/off.

So this was done today. The old nut came off with an impact gun while holding the hub in place on the ground. The hub was then pressed out of the bad bearing, and a piece had to be cut off the old hub (the bearing race I believe you'd call it in English), because it was slightly welded on by the heat caused by the damaged bearing.

Pressed the hub back in, then impacted a new nut to the back.

Total: $45 dollars including shipping to Puerto Rico, part (bearing) and labor.

This post has been edited by Syaoran: Aug 25, 2012 - 2:52 PM

so what did u end up putting, a celica or camry hub

changing a bearing is just like changing any bearing, you take off the hub or hit it out i guess if it works, there is a race piece from the bearing sometimes gets stuck on the hub, sometimes people cut it off or pull it off, press out the old bearing put in the new one. simple. not sure why buying a whole assembly is needed, thats only if the whole thing is damaged, i only change the bearings ONLY.

This post has been edited by trdproven: Aug 25, 2012 - 8:53 PM

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Celica bearing, reused old hub. Got the bearing on eBay for $25+$10 shipping


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Yep... If you've got the tools, it's a lot cheaper to do the bearing only. The hub rarely goes bad. Might be a good idea to get a new axle nut for the hub, even though you can reuse the old one if it's not damaged and you've got some red loctite.

Supposedly these "lock-nuts" are one-time use but I've re-used axle nuts with no issues in the past and so has my mechanic and other friends. If you want peace of mind use loctite and it will for sure not get loose. I was worried they were a different kind of nut until I saw it.

If you don't have the tools and want to DIY with minimal effort, and have got tons of money to burn, go ahead and buy OEM... locally they wanted $430 for the OEM hub+bearing assembly.

or just get an OEM bearing only. but good job, you should post pics on this thread on the work you did IF you took pics. or do a write-up.

This post has been edited by trdproven: Aug 26, 2012 - 6:02 PM

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Couldn't take any pics, didn't have my camera phone with me when I was doing it, but the procedure is pretty straight forward. There's a how-to on changing the hub + bearing. It's basically that, plus:
1. getting an impact gun with a 30mm socket to pull out the axle nut at the back
2. pressing out the old hub
3. cutting+chiseling the race off if necessary
4. pressing the hub back on, and re-torquing a new nut, or the old nut in good condition with some loctite. I would go at torquing it as tight as an axle (read somewhere along 180ft lbs, but I would just leave the impact on it for a second or two)

The first thing I fixed on my car (the morning after I bought it) was one of the front wheel bearings. When turning corners it made a nasty noise which was the rotor rubbing against the shield. Turns out the inner race on the bearing was spinning on the hub. When we took it apart, it literally fell on the ground. So the bearing and hub were garbage. After finding a suitable hub from a 4th gen celica and ripping to Lordco (three minutes before they closed) I had all the parts to rebuild it. With a friend, his 10T jack and a semi truck, we managed to remove the old bearing from the hub and press on the new bearing. Been driving on it for over two years now, no problems.