Skoda Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

Repairing wheel bearing housing Special tools and workshop equipment required t  Pressure plate -MP 3-406- t  Pressure plate -MP 3-407- t  Pressure spindle -MP 3-408- t  Pipe section -MP 3-4012- t  Pipe section -MP 3-450- t  Thrust plate -MP 3-467- t  Ring spanner SW 46 -MP 6-413- t  Assembly device -MP 6-414/1- t  Washer -MP 6-415- t  Washer -MP 6-416- t  Thrust piece -MP 6-418- t  Pipe -MP 6-419- t  Pressure pipe -MP 6-420- t  Extractor -MP 6-425- t  Socket wrench insert SW 21 -MP 6-427- t  Spreader -VAS 3424- t  Puller Kukko -V 176- t  Workshop press, e.g. -V.A.G 1290 A- t  Torque wrench, e.g. -V.A.G 1756- t  Cross member Kukko 18-0 t  Grease -G 052 723 A2- (molykote grease) It is only possible to repair the wheel-bearing housing, by pressing out and in the wheel hub and the wheel bearing, after removing the suspension strut and the wheel-bearing housing. –  Remove and install suspension strut and wheel bearing housing → Chapter.

Press the wheel hub out of the wheel bearing

Removing and installing circlip –  Remove or replace circlip with commercially available circlip pliers.   Note t  Replace. t  When inserting, pay attention to the correct position of the circlip.

Press the wheel bearing out of the wheel bearing housing

Pull the inner ring of the bearing off the wheel hub –  Insert washer -MP 6-416- as shown. –  Screw cross member Kukko 18-0 into washer -MP 6-416-. –  Position thrust plate -MP 3-467- onto wheel hub and pull off the inner ring of the bearing by turning the threaded spindle.

Press the wheel bearing into the wheel bearing housing -A- Wheel bearing –  Before pressing in the wheel bearing, coat the entire wheel bearing seat in the wheel bearing housing evenly with -G 052 723 A2-.   Note After pressing in the wheel bearing, the circlip must be inserted → Anchor.

Press the wheel hub into the wheel bearing   Note t  When pressing in the wheel hub, ensure that the washer -MP 6-415- rests against the inner ring of the bearing. t  For wheel bearing housing and wheel hub on vehicles including with engine as of 110 kW (brake FN-3) observe the assignment of the wheel hub → electronic catalogue of original parts. t  Wheel hubs with a 3 mm wide ink-jet marking for marking the minimum axial run-out can also be combined with brake discs without marking of the maximum axial run-out. Then the reduction of the overall axial run-out of the brake FN 3 is not effective.