I haven't removed the rotors yet, but my bearings are shot to hell. I need to know if any of you have replaced yours yet. I'm hoping the spindles are ok. Are these bearings sealed or are they something I can buy from O'Rielly's like Timken or a decent brand?

Thanks for your help. I'm trying to get ahold of these bearings today so I can fix by tonight and be back on the road tomorrow morning.

B

 

Ttt...

 

haven't replaced mine but i'm pretty sure the bearings/hub are one piece and bolt to the spindle.

 

Holl ****!!!

Just called the dealer thinking I could get just the bearings. Like you said they are an assembly and sold by GM at the honest price of only $262.50 per side.

Why is it that this entire week I feel like I'm getting bent over. I think I need to walk around with some KY jelly so it wont hurt as much.

 

Brad, I've looked everywhere I can think of but can't find a part number for the front. The Autozone website shows Timken as a replacement, but no #. Probably have to special order, or maybe a big AC Delco warehouse near you has some in stock???

Good luck & Happy Thanksgiving.

 

Brad, get the GM part# for them and see if you can get them for cheaper somewhere else. i always try gmpartsdirect.com and partszoneonline.com

 

Picking them up for $210.00 a piece tonight from a local dealer.

Thanks for the replies, I'll post on how the labor part of it goes.

 

dealer item only

 

Well, the install went fairly easily. Breaking some bolts loose was a bit of a pain and then I had to knock out all of the studs and then beat the rotor off the hub since it had rusted on a little bit. Cleaned up everything and bolted them back up. I was suprised to see that our hubs, wheel and so on are all held on by 3 bolts and not much else.
I had to re-use the bolts that hold the hub since I didn't have any new ones, but they did look to be torque to yeild bolts, so I'll be swapping them out within the next week or so.

What happened to my bearings is that a cover is on the back of the hub. Well, that cover came off and the internals of the hub, bearings and all, were solid rust. The passenger side was fine and still had the cover, but it fell off when I was knocking the rotor off. So when I go back to replace the bolts I am going to be adding some locktight or something of that nature on the lip of the cover so it wont fall off again and cost me a few hundred. The price also turned out to be even cheaper than mentioned. List was 262.50 and I walked out at about $183.00 per side.

 

I had the same problem and paid around 250 for the whole piece.

Just think... atleast its easy to install