ot..02 silverado 1500 2wd rear wheel bearing..

Truck · Dec 15, 2009

Just got into Arkansas heading for Texas and the rear end started making noise...got her stopped and found a place to stay for the night, wondering how bad a job it is to change a rear wheel bearing in this thing.. Gotta be the bearing went, the wheel is all covered in gear lube and it sounds like a bad wheel bearing..

I have a jack, some wrenches, and several nearby parts stores...What am I gonna need to do to do this?? I have a feeling it is a remove the diff cover job, c clip rear end, then a slide hammer??

Are there repair bearings that use a different part of the axle if the old one is worn?

Any tips would be great, I'm gonna wait for the morning to do it..

glennster · Dec 15, 2009

if its not a limited slip differential, jack up the bad side, pull the differential cover and drain out the gear lube. on the center carrier that hold the ring and spider gears, look for a bolt going crossways in the carrier housing and thru the shaft that holds the spider gears, its a long bolt maybe 5/16 diameter, 12 mm head or so. remove the bolt, then that shaft will slide out of the spider gears. walk the axle around so the spider gears come out. once out the axle can slide in some to pull the c-clip and then the axle will slide out. pop the seal out of the end of the housing and you should see the bearing there. check the axle to see if the bearing wore in to it.

landlord7012 · Dec 15, 2009

If it is rear disc like my 99 you will need tools to remove the brake calipers and yes you will need to remove to diff cover and remove the axle clip after rmoving the carrier pin bolt and carrier pin as it is a semi-floating axle. Removing the axle bearings, at least on mine was horrible. I tried with a slide hammer - probably had the wrong adapter in - and the race pretty much shattered. I had to use a die grinder to carefully grind a split down to the o.d. As for a damaged axle - I doubt there is any way aroud that. I couldn't imagine trying to perform your repair on the "open road" without a pretty decent set of assorted tools and clean-up supplies. Please note: if you have a limited slip carrier you will need to use synthetic 75 weight gear lube and LS additive and the capacity, at least on my truck, was measured to a depth from the fill hole not level to it (my new diff cover fill hole was at the right fill level - unsure what year they "brainstormed" that one).

Good luck,
Bill

steve n carol · Dec 15, 2009

Good advise given!!

I don't know about the slide hammer. But, as an alternative, I've used a 6-10' length of chain. bolt it to one of the studs and snap it like you are cracking a whip.

just my Cajuinuity. sl

Truck · Dec 15, 2009

Picked up a loaner slide hammer at the local parts stores and two different bearings, one which is sold as a repair bearing, which I bet this will need.. Hopefully it'll be as easy as it sounds, even had a how to on Wiki!

Thanks guys!

steve n carol · Dec 15, 2009

old · Dec 15, 2009

To bad your not a bit north of where you are I would have been happy to help you with that. Yep you have to pull the cover and the C clip, slide the axle out and then use a bearing puller to get to old bearing out. Did that this summer to my Chev truck. Yes they make a repair type bearing but if your alse is very bad it will do help found that out this summer also and had to replace the whole drivers side axle a couple of week later and had less then 1000 mile on it after the first repair

PaulW_NJ · Dec 15, 2009

Here's some info from the manual
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Truck · Dec 15, 2009

didn't work for me, guess you have to be a member??

PaulW_NJ · Dec 15, 2009

sorry, I didn"t think of that. If you open your email, I"ll send you those pages.

Not much more information than was already provided here, but does give some diagrams of removing the rear axle. I had a tough time getting my C clips out until I was able to reach in with flat jawed pliers and pull them out.

Kentb of SWMO · Dec 16, 2009

Be aware that many new venicals use the AXLE as the inner race of the bearing. You may need to replace the bearing AND the AXLE.

Kent

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