Very well done video. Audio was excellent, lighting was great. The camera views combined with your description as you proceeded was great. Your knowledge of this process is clearly exceptional. I really enjoyed this! Thank you!
The procedure is to weight down the brake pedal and remove the axle nut, then remove the brake/rotor before moving onto the hub assembly. There's no need for a DIY jig to stop the wheel from turning, and lowering the wheel to the ground is not something that should ever be done.
NOPE. 2008 still has the longbolt assembly. The entire knuckle must come off. Parts suppliers now supply the entire knuckle, bearing, etc. The bolt must be cut off when it is frozen into the bushings,.
A clear video on how to do this! I have this repair coming up, so I'm happy to finally find a good reference. Just waiting on the parts to come from Wrong Auto.
Excellent Video! I am really bummed that ours is a 2006 Forester and I'll have to take out a second mortgage to buy all all the special tools and bearing press to change the rear wheel bearing, or pay a Subaru Place a small fortune do it..... GRRRRRRRRRR!
Best video on the subject 09 Forrester Question my Spindles are not floating like in the video in fact they seem to be seized (I think) I ordered a 3 point puller. Brake discs came off easy and the bearing assembly is loose but I can’t remove it. Any words of advice?
@@markcutdavid yes I had to buy and use a bearing remover tool that you bolt on and use a hammer. Sorry I can’t remember what it’s called. Also unbolt and put your rear wheel sensors to the side I destroyed both of mine that had to replace them .
Eric's South Main Auto is located in Northeast US where we get tons of snow and ice which means salts on the road. I live few hours east of his shop in upstate NY with most cars get prematurely rust. When Nav said there's rust on the hub, I laugh out thinking that's almost brand new hub compare cars in this area. Real rust in this area will fuse hub to wheel housing and will be almost impossible to get it out the way Nav did it in this area.
@@MicMc539it gets so bad on these Subarus the salt belt that most of us just take the whole knuckle off and replace it. That wheel bearing will never come off even with oxy acetylene torch and air hammers
@@DaDaDo661 I'm a great fan of S.M.A.. In Northern News South Wales my 08 Forester has near to zero rust and if so it's only some minor surface stuff. I'd expect at least another decade before anything even slightly concerning. Of course I've never seen snow in my life!
DON'T BE LAZY! HE DID ENOUGH. SERVICE MANUAL OR GOOGLE IT. IF YOU NEED TO ASK FOR TORQUE SPECS, YOU SHOULD PUT DOWN YOUR HARBOR FREIGHT TOOLS AND CALL A PRO. DON'T WANT YOU TO BREAK A NAIL.
If you need to know why wheel bearing hub assemblies need to be replaced, perhaps you shouldn't attempt to replace them yourself. Ideally, you should leave it for the pros.
Most of these we have had in our shop do not come apart NEARLY that easy.
So what do you do when they are rusted like this without cooking the bearing and hub?
I live in North East of America. We called the Rust Belt states. Boy I wish that ez to remove the wheel bearing.. The salt just eat the metal up lol
I don't understand why you wouldn't use the impact gun to break the axle nut loose.
Laugh. That’s not a lot of rust at all. If only the cars I worked on had that amount out rust
You forgot to reset the lock on the center nut that you loosened with the screw driver? Should have reset using a chisel to lock the nut.
This improved hub design is brilliant.... too bad the previous models had the convoluted / complex set up.
Very well done video. Audio was excellent, lighting was great. The camera views combined with your description as you proceeded was great. Your knowledge of this process is clearly exceptional. I really enjoyed this! Thank you!
The procedure is to weight down the brake pedal and remove the axle nut, then remove the brake/rotor before moving onto the hub assembly. There's no need for a DIY jig to stop the wheel from turning, and lowering the wheel to the ground is not something that should ever be done.
Good job Nev. DIY? Not this one!
omg THANK YOU for such CLEAR info!!
how the heck did you get it off? i have hit it with everything except and i can't even get the assembly off let alone the hub?
I did not see you re lock the drive shaft nut which is critical . A important step to stop dramas later on
Otherwise a good video
Don’t tell me what to do
Very nice video. I really liked the front and back camera views and lighting was excellent. Could see well what you were doing.
Can you use the same bearings for the front on the back?
torque spec = "thats fine"
NOPE. 2008 still has the longbolt assembly. The entire knuckle must come off. Parts suppliers now supply the entire knuckle, bearing, etc. The bolt must be cut off when it is frozen into the bushings,.
Good job
A clear video on how to do this! I have this repair coming up, so I'm happy to finally find a good reference. Just waiting on the parts to come from Wrong Auto.
That moment, at 6.26, aren't happening for me! Sits on the spline, moving around but not coming off. What could possibly hold it?
Do you by chance have the dimensional drawing for the locking tool bat plate? Not sure if this is the right terminology!
Si ok....ma come hai fatto a togliere il cuscinetto dalla sede?? Non lo hai mostrato , è duro e difficilissimo da estrarre😢
Thanks so much for showing the taping of the hub bolts...this saved me all the grief of the various pounding and extra tools!
Excellent Video! I am really bummed that ours is a 2006 Forester and I'll have to take out a second mortgage to buy all all the special tools and bearing press to change the rear wheel bearing, or pay a Subaru Place a small fortune do it..... GRRRRRRRRRR!
Great job thanks
Great video! Wish you could help me with my 1975 Cortina! Good man!
Thanks!
Great tutorial, you make it look that is posible. 🤣😂
What year is that car specifically? The paint look spotless gorgeous
thank you for your video my friend!
Best video on the subject
09 Forrester Question my Spindles are not floating like in the video in fact they seem to be seized (I think) I ordered a 3 point puller.
Brake discs came off easy and the bearing assembly is loose but I can’t remove it. Any words of advice?
Did you find a solution? Im stuck with the same problem
@@markcutdavid yes I had to buy and use a bearing remover tool that you bolt on and use a hammer. Sorry I can’t remember what it’s called.
Also unbolt and put your rear wheel sensors to the side I destroyed both of mine that had to replace them .
What year is this car?
I've just watched South Main Auto Repair do the SAME job 10 x more difficult.
Thanks Nev, a great way to do the job!
Eric's South Main Auto is located in Northeast US where we get tons of snow and ice which means salts on the road. I live few hours east of his shop in upstate NY with most cars get prematurely rust. When Nav said there's rust on the hub, I laugh out thinking that's almost brand new hub compare cars in this area. Real rust in this area will fuse hub to wheel housing and will be almost impossible to get it out the way Nav did it in this area.
@@Joseph-eh4rs Living in the Outback I'm quite glad I've never seen snow.
Seems it's just an expensive and difficult pain in the a*se!
Peace.
@@MicMc539it gets so bad on these Subarus the salt belt that most of us just take the whole knuckle off and replace it. That wheel bearing will never come off even with oxy acetylene torch and air hammers
@@DaDaDo661 I'm a great fan of S.M.A..
In Northern News South Wales my 08 Forester has near to zero rust and if so it's only some minor surface stuff.
I'd expect at least another decade before anything even slightly concerning.
Of course I've never seen snow in my life!
Great job
Excellent vid.
WHAT ABOIUT THE TORQUE SPECS
DON'T BE LAZY! HE DID ENOUGH. SERVICE MANUAL OR GOOGLE IT. IF YOU NEED TO ASK FOR TORQUE SPECS, YOU SHOULD PUT DOWN YOUR HARBOR FREIGHT TOOLS AND CALL A PRO. DON'T WANT YOU TO BREAK A NAIL.
Torques for the rear, Forester SH:
hub bolts - 65Nm
brake caliper bolts - 51Nm
axle nut - 189Nm
wheel nuts - 100Nm
SHOUT IF ERROR ANYONE
Nothing wrong with the Harbor Freight tools.
The skills not the tools determine who is the pro and who is not!
Was the rear nut a 30 or 32 mm?
32mm
Yeah where I live these cheap hand tool ideas don't won't. It snows it here enough said.
Can you explain why you needed to replace the hub? Ideally it could have been explained as part of the intro to the video.
Thanks
If you need to know why wheel bearing hub assemblies need to be replaced, perhaps you shouldn't attempt to replace them yourself. Ideally, you should leave it for the pros.