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WARNING!
^ Do not re-use any fasteners that are worn or deformed in normal use.
^ Some fasteners are designed to be used only once, and are unreliable and may fail if used a second time.
^ This includes, but is not limited to, nuts, bolts, washers, circlips and cotter pins.
^ Always follow the recommendations in this information, replace these fasteners with new parts where indicated, and any other time it is deemed necessary by inspection.

1. Wheel bearing housing
- Bearing seat should no longer be greased before pressing in bearing
- Slot for ball joint must not be expanded to press in ball joint
- After installing, check wheel alignment
2. Plug
- Vehicles with ABS: replaced by mounting sleeve for ABS wheel speed sensor
3. Bolt
- Tighten to: 10 Nm (84 inch lb)
4. Brake splash guard
5. Wheel bearing
- Stepped inside diameter
- Destroyed when pressed out
- Pressing out, refer to Fig. 2, below.
- Pressing in, refer to Fig. 3, below.
- Installation: larger inner diameter faces wheel hub
6. Wheel hub
- Pressing out, refer to Fig. 1, below.
- Pressing in, refer to Fig. 4, below.
- Pulling off bearing inner race Fig. 5 and Fig. 6, below.





Fig. 1 Pressing wheel hub out of wheel bearing





Fig. 2 Pressing out wheel bearing





Fig. 3 Pressing in wheel bearing

NOTE: Large inner diameter of wheel bearing faces wheel hub.

- Press in wheel bearing (A in illustration) up to stop.





Fig. 4 Pressing wheel hub into wheel bearing

CAUTION: When pressing in, VW554 thrust piece must only contact the bearing inner race to amid damage to the bearing.





Fig. 5 Inserting separating tool
- Install separating device in groove of inner bearing race and pre-load with spindle.

NOTE: Use commercial separating tool (e.g. Kukko 15-17).





Fig. 6 Pressing wheel bearing inner race from hub