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I'm getting tired of my slef adjusting camber system. for thos eof you not familiar with this, it's the feature that allows a wheel to adjust its camber to follow the curvature of the road. another word for this is "blown bearings." my front right wheel has about 3-5 degrees of play camber-wise due to (I assume) blown bearings. I really need to do something about this . my plan is to hit up the pick-apart yard and get a complete wheel hub (with control arm, halfshaft, etc) from teh pick apart yard and swap it out. is there any difference between a 90-92 L and a 93 legacy turbo at the hub?

my plan:

Junked Legacy L: Unbolt the control arm from the chassis, unbolt the strut, disconnect brake lines, separate the steering ball joint, and yank the halfshaft right out of the tranny.

My SS: remove the hub in a similar but more careful fashion, swap out the brake rotor and caliper from my old hub assy, and connect everything up.

so do the L and SS hubs share general dimensions, halfshafts, bearing charecteristcs, etc? the reason I'm doign it this way is that the whole assembly will cost me 20-30 bucks from the pick-apart yard, or I can pay 200-ish to have a shop do the bearings. I'd prefer to do it my way if I can get away with it. I don't mind a little elbow grease.

Dude, buy the bearing, take the hub off your car, take it to a place and have them press it out and press the new one.

No point in wasting the time when the new one will have a bad bearing of the old design.

hahaha.......ciper said exactly what I was thinking.......there's no telling that the bearing you are getting is any better then what you're taking out.

will any car shop be able to do this on a whim? like if I bring it there and say "hey guys, can you press this out and press this one back in?" will they be able to do it just like that? how much does that run?

thing is this bearing is blown and I can at least get one that's not blown from the pick-apart. ideally I'd love to have it replaced with a shiny new one. but I don't have a spare car to go there with the hub in the passenger seat .

sorry to be all stupid about this. bearings have always been something I haven't dealt with. I'd just bring it in and say "fix it" since I can't do it myself. never dawned on me to do it taht way, and I fix everything else myself so I never really go to shops and I don't know what they can do.

-IggDawg

My brother and I have taken little things like that to local shops (like the local Amoco repair shop and stuff) and they've done it for exorbitant amounts of money. I think he paid $50 to have a pilot bearing pressed out. But they'll do it. :)

Most shops CANNOT do it themselves, they send it out to someone! I bet the amaco shop sent it to someone else.

Nah, they actually had a little hydraulic press and did it while we waited in about 5 minutes. My brother watched but I didn't because I was refueling.