Hi, Just pondering this - can you put a bearing in the wrong way round? This is for my mk3. One side of the bearing as some writing but otherwise it looks identical so assume it doesn't matter? Cheers Matt
Smart way is to put it with the writing onto the easy to read face…some areas of the world you can get the bearings from the markings on the races… it’s useful on really old cars for which there are no available parts off the shelf !
Cheers I did it writing face out to be logical in the end. Went in a dream.... ... but first time I've done this type of thing and I screwed up big time installing the hub. Over confident. Didnt support the back of the bearing and cracked the bearing in half pushing it through the press. Doh. Live and learn and knew what I'd done straight away. Spent ages fannying about making sure the cast bit was supported as well but forgot the key detail to support the bearing
Clean the balls and the race well and get some good quality grease And push it back in there…shouldn’t be much harm done ! We all done it at some point !
Unlucky for me it cracked the internal metal part of the bearing (race I think it is called). Half of it is still mounted to the hub with a visible split in the metal! Stripped it back down ready for replacements opps but won't do that on the other one or next time! Hopefully someone else new to this will search and find my tail to learn from
