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W-| If you perform the procedure in the video that I made replacing the bearings is NOT necessary as you never have to separate them the OE bearings last a good lone time and don’t often have problems even at high mileage, it’s when you try and ‘short cut’ the job by just slide hammering the hub off splitting the bearing that the bearing problems come up. MANY have asked about the conversion in the past and I’ll respond the same way I always do, if you want to spend the money and do the extra work now to save yourself a little time in the future go for it but if you follow what’s in the video it’s really not that bad and you can set yourself up for the ‘next time’ by lubricating the right parts and cleaning them before reassembly. I still stand by the on-the-car machining as this is a VERY affordable solution and yields great results.
Quoted From clearanceman:
Thanks, I was going by the idea of replacing the bearings so it didn’t matter if I split them. But if 220,000 isn’t necessarily the end for the bearings, I’ll mic the rotors and if there is enough thickness left have them turned on the car once I can’t stand the pulsing anymore. If they have to be replaced, I’ll just do the rotors and then later if I need to to the bearings, I’ll do that.
That sounds like a great plan, keep us posted.
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