so i just replaced it today, first time taking off a wheel, working with a torque wrench, yadda yadda... took off the wheel, started unscrewing the break calipers, was using a 3/8 wrench with a 1/4 adapter to a 14mm socket, adapter broke... switched over to the 1/4 wrench, that broke... put the wheel back on, went to the store, picked up an impact wrench, rated at 45 ft/lbs, picked up a compressor from a friend, got home, took off the wheel, realized that the impact wrench wont connect to the compressor without a nipple... put the wheel back on, went to the store again, picked up a nipple, got back to the house, connected everything, took off the wheel... apparently one of the screws on the break caliper was so rusted that 45 ft/lbs was not even close to enough... luckily at this point i realized that my long ass torque wrench connects to the new impact sockets i just picked up, so i used that to finally get that bolt off... success!
lex:1, solara:5 haha everything went pretty smoothly after this, got the stuff off (there was one bolt on the hub that was hard to get at, but otherwise no big deal) put everything back on and torqued... time for a test drive, get up to 40 mph, and there comes that familiar humming noise... FML i go back to the mechanic... they say the other bearing is also shot, and needs to be replaced... well, atleast i know how to do this now so the next one should only take an hour... instead of 5 lol... gonna go back to return the impact wrench tomorrow...
lex:1, solara:5 haha everything went pretty smoothly after this, got the stuff off (there was one bolt on the hub that was hard to get at, but otherwise no big deal) put everything back on and torqued... time for a test drive, get up to 40 mph, and there comes that familiar humming noise... FML i go back to the mechanic... they say the other bearing is also shot, and needs to be replaced... well, atleast i know how to do this now so the next one should only take an hour... instead of 5 lol... gonna go back to return the impact wrench tomorrow...
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