Wheel Bearings

Hi everybody

Done a search but can't find the info i'm after. I need to change 2wheel bearings on my Supra and wondered whether when fitting the new ones the small amount of grease on them from toyota is enough, or is addidtional grease required after fitting. If additional grease is required can someone tell me what sort to use.

Also some people seem to recommend removing abs sensor and some dont. Is this essential as i tried to take one out of a mkiii years ago and couldn't do it destroying it in the process.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Cheers

Did my bearing last weekend

When you put the new bearing and seals in the hub there will be a void eitherside of the bearing to the seal, I filled one void with high temp grease but I left the other void empty as I didn't want to put too much grease in.

I don't have ABS

as long as when/if you put heat on it you dont melt all of it i thought that that would of been enough grease

Don't use heat! just find someone with a press and do it properly.

Its only gone from excess heat when the rear caliper siezed on me, disk looked like the glowing ones you see on F1 cars. Ive got a press so no probs there.

I just didnt think there looked like enough grease on the new bearing, last one i changed was on the back of a mk3 escort

What tonnage is your press? We have a 10tonne and it took it to the max getting my bearing out.

Add grease but don't fill it to the brim

Its a 10 tonne also, maybe i should've gone 20!!! Im expecting it to be tough to get out as the heat from the glowing disk was enough to ruin the grease, but hopefully not to have welded anything together

Does any type of high melting point grease mix with the toyota stuff?

10tonne will be fine and mixing the grease should be ok(worked fine for me and I'v done 2 bearings) aslong as the grease your mixing with isn't really thick.

The only other problem I can see occuring is if your bearing has been knackered for a while which may have worn the hub shaft, I did this and a new hub cost me £209 from Toyota!

Has been gone a couple of months, so probably will be other issues. How does it wear the shaft? I thought the ball bearings ran in inner and outer casings with these casings pressed onto the shaft and hub.

The grease the bearings come packed with is the correct amount, DO NOT add more!

Cheers Chris, appreciate that. Just out of interest what problems would too much grease cause, i never realised it could be a bad thing. I just assumed any excess would be pushed to the outsides and do no harm.