P38A A series of faults

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I've already pulled the hub and bar a small split in the gaiter the CV joint seams to be ok, but with the bearing housing extracted from the swivel and on the floor the bearing feels terrible; notchy and stiff is the best way I can describe it
 
Sorry I meant the housing, I've not pushed out the hub centre yet so can't access the outside of the bearing where I am expecting to find the circlip as there was nothing on the inside
 
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Pics of the knackered bearing:

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No way that's the original with those nasty plastic cages! Britpart?

And it's clear that a previous bearing had spun on that hub. I've since removed the remains of the bearing from the hub (slit it part way through with a cutting disk on the dremel then cracked it with a chisel), the housing however has my 10 tonne bearing puller on it currently in the hope that it gives under the pressure. If not then I'll try my MIG welder on it to shrink it.

The hub centre has cleaned up pretty nicely with some Skotchbrite and brake cleaner, so it can live again

Meanwhile the EAS Spring Solenoid plungers are still hardening, the Puraflex 40 might be a little soft, so will test them with the airline to see how they fair:

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Consider me shocked :eek:

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Plastic cages indeed, even says 'England' on it, so it could be original! If it is the original I shall take back my comments about plastic cages, because it's lasted 215k miles...
 
Meanwhile after the initial clean up of the carrier and hub:

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They're now undergoing some time relaxing in a bubble bath of Bilt Hamber's finest Deox-C

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While I am going to take a look at my EAS Spring Solenoid Plungers...
 
If you take a grinder to the sensor hole and cut it out towards the axle the bearing hub can be removed with out pulling the abs sensor out of the steering hub
a tip from Tomcatalan:D
 
Eesh, that's an expensive PITA!

The manual states a silicon grease, I was planning to use some Ceratech silicon grease that I have for brake systems
 
Back to the EAS Spring Solenoid Plungers; my now filled with Puraflex40 plungers after a shave and clean up:

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Each one given a good blasting from the airline and nothing popped out, unlike the original inserts. I thought initially, while it was still curing, that the Puraflex might be too soft, but it does seem to have hardened up a bit more with 3 days of curing time. Anyhoo, the solenoids are now all reassembled and the EAS Valve Block back together.

The Bearing housing and Hub after a good soak in Deox-C have come up quite nicely:

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If I could be bothered I could make them look like new with a bit more effort, but I just wanted to get the mating surfaces nice and clean, not restore them to perfection. I'll probably introduce the CV shroud on the bearing to some Jenolite later just to kill off the remaining rust
 
tomcat59alan said:
I used a 3in wheel air grinder, bought cheaply from Aldi years ago.very handy bit of kit.;):D
Click to expand...

I keep promising to myself I'll get one, but I do find air tools wasteful, you use all that power to fill up the compressor, then use the compressed air to drive a tool that could be electric in the first place, and have problems with keeping the tool running because it seems that unless you have a receiver of at least 250 litres and a 5hp pump you can drain your 50 litre compressor in seconds and have a 3hp motor running continuously to drive a tool that's probably only using about 0.5hp anyway! ;)
 
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