Rear tire almost fell off..!!

[fastiva89]

I sure like mine. I have two of them and have my eyes on a couple of abandoned ones for toys. Just need more money.

[Bert]

Rear bearings are pretty quick to change once you've done this kind of thing a few times. There is a tall ridge on the inside of the drum, about halfway in, that interferes with being able to punch out the bearing races. Some drums have grooves cut in the ridge to allow the punch to contact the race whereas other drums don't have this feature. I use a carbide cutter in a Dremel tool to make my own slot.
If the grease seal is no longer good now is a good time to change that too. As to spindle nut, I think a trip to a U-Pull or wrecker is much cheaper! Take the old one with you when you go. You'd probably be surprised just how common (or uncommon?) these nuts are. Later model Festys use an ordinary nut with a slotted sheetmetal crown (same idea as a castle nut) that goes over and then a cotter pin goes through the spindle. As I said before, if you can find some of these, drilling through the spindle is a lot easier then I initially thought (it is not hard steel).
Good luck!

[Dom]

[QUOTE=Bert;582357]Rear bearings are pretty quick to change once you've done this kind of thing a few times. There is a tall ridge on the inside of the drum, about halfway in, that interferes with being able to punch out the bearing races. Some drums have grooves cut in the ridge to allow the punch to contact the race whereas other drums don't have this feature. I use a carbide cutter in a Dremel tool to make my own slot.
If the grease seal is no longer good now is a good time to change that too. As to spindle nut, I think a trip to a U-Pull or wrecker is much cheaper! Take the old one with you when you go. You'd probably be surprised just how common (or uncommon?) these nuts are. Later model Festys use an ordinary nut with a slotted sheetmetal crown (same idea as a castle nut) that goes over and then a cotter pin goes through the spindle. As I said before, if you can find some of these, drilling through the spindle is a lot easier then I initially thought (it is not hard steel).

How can i tell if the grease seal is bad or good ?

Thanks

[TorqueEffect]

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Haha its all good. When I bought my first festiva I almost lost my rear passenger wheel. Sounds like the same problem your having

Same here, same side too.
I know my spindle was completely shot, threads were mangled, and the outer bearing fell out in pieces.

[fastiva89]

[/QUOTE]How can i tell if the grease seal is bad or good ?[/QUOTE]

I would just replace the seals as long as you are in there

[WmWatt]

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[fastiva89]

Here are the part #'s for timken.

Rear inner seal: 1126S
Rear inner bearing: SET4
Rear outer bearing: SET1

Front inner seal: 4990
Front outer seal: 710323
Front inner/outer bearing: SET11

[Dom]

I just realize that there was no grease seal in the drum which way is the seal suppose to go just picked up timkin bearings and trying to install grease. What goes in first ?

[fastiva89]

put the bearing cups in first. Then the cones. Last the seal the metal side should be facing out. Also use some emery cloth to clean the spindles up before you reassemble everything

[Dom]

Ok they are in but now I am having a problem getting the new spindle nuts in left is for drivers side and right is for passenger side, they dont want to thread on...any suggestions?

[fastiva89]

Did you try the opposite? I know the computer at advance has them backwards. The one that the compuyer says is left is the right one. And you are correct on the left and right sides of the car.

[Dom]

Did you try the opposite? I know the computer at advance has them backwards. The one that the compuyer says is left is the right one. And you are correct on the left and right sides of the car.

I did i think i might have screwed up the threads now.

[fastiva89]

In the nut or on the spindle? When I got the wrong one the nut stripped out thankfully. If you have a wirr brush rub that over the threads to get the junk off.

[Dom]

In the nut or on the spindle? When I got the wrong one the nut stripped out thankfully. If you have a wirr brush rub that over the threads to get the junk off.

Are these nuts supposed to be one time nuts ?

[Bert]

[QUOTE=Dom;582362]

How can i tell if the grease seal is bad or good ?
Thanks

If it's ugly looking (deformed, creased, dented and/or has ragged edges) when you punch it out in order to do the back bearing. When we're talking expenses; new bearings and new drums (?) the cost of a putting in a new seal is peanuts.