Step #1: Invest in a carbide cutter bit set. Harbor Freight is your homie. Step #2: Cut the nut to split the nut. Step #3: Remove the split nut Step #4: Unbolt axle from diff and drop the axle down out of the diff. Step #5: Press the axle out of the hub. DON'T whack it, deforming / destroying the axle Step #6: Slide hammer the hub off. Step #7: Use a die grinder to cut a deep grove in the bearing race on the hub. use a chisel and a hammer or an air hammer to crack the bearing race so the bearing race can be slid off of the hub Step #8: Remove the circlip. Use penetrating oil and heat if necessary Step #9: Press out old bearing with Hub Tamer tool Step #10: Press bearing in with Hub Tamer tool Step #11: Install circlip Step #12: Press in hub with hub tamer tool Step #13: Install brake rotor Step #14: Install ABS sensor Step #15: install brake caliper bracket Step #16 Install brake pads Step #17: install brake caliper Step #18: Install brake pad wear sensor Step #19: Install wheel Step #20: Torque lugs to 88 ft lbs or 100 ft. lbs depending on what size wheel bolts you have.
I tried to do this recently (I also have a 2009 335xi). I had to drill and break the axle nut to get it off - mine was as corroded as Gregg's. When I got to the bearing, I absolutely could not remove the center part. I tried every technique I've seen on TH-cam and on forums, but mine would not come out with any tools I had. I was able to break it and knock out every piece but the center. I was also able to remove the race from the hub. The only way I was able to move the center at all was by putting a piece of steel on it and hitting it several hundred times with a 4 lb. mallet. That moved it maybe two millimeters, and it dented the steel more than it moved the bearing! I had to get the car to a shop to finish this job, and they had to remove the knuckle and use a large shop press to push out the bearing. Consider this is a possibility (if yours is as tight as mine was) before you start this job.
My e90 has 180 k miles on it now and the thing looks just like this. I don't even bother trying to fix it, I throw it all out and replace all the parts involved with new ones. I've got a lot of respect for you to even putting up with this shit.
Great video! Pretty ironic that you just posted this and I just found the exact same rusted nut on my 2009 328ix a few days ago. Wheel bearing is o.k but now I have a good idea of what's ahead if bearing fails. 80,000 miles on car and I have never seen anything like this before on my past vehicles, Audi's and Saab's. Thanks for posting!
I do these all the time best method is a good a oxy- acetylene and a good impact gun , trick is get the axle nut red hot all around and most of the rust will explode off the nut and hub then hammer a 12 point socket and go back and fourth with the impact gun and keep adding heat if it won’t go , then I use a otc hub tamer and I don’t even take any control arms off the the axle will pull out from back of the hub once it’s removed the the diff , and I live in Canada where new cars rust in less then a year lol
It's the same with new bmws. I think when cleaning rims you must take off the cap and then remove all the water from inside because it doesn't have anywhere to drain.
Greg thanks for the insight, just bought a 2008 328i convertible whats the symthom, at low speed taking of there is a rumbling a though I'm going over rumble strips on side of the road after around 50 it disappears, how would you tackle the problem today too many people giving their opinion
Does it change intensity if you swerve left and right abruptly? I would jack the car up and spin the tires by hand and see if you can hear anything from the bearings. Also does it still have run flat tires? Sometimes those tires are noisy.
Mammoth effort and well done on execution ..I have to ask ..If you had known it was going to take so much energy to remove the bolt and axel would you have left it alone ..I have a 520d 2011 with exactly the same appearance on the rear hubs .
It needed a bearing very badly. Had to be done. Now that I have done it once I would just order a hub, bearing and axle and a new cutting wheel for my angle grinder. Would be much easier now that I have done it once
I pray to god I never have to do a wheel bearing job like that. So glad my rear bearings are connected to the wheel carrier with 4 bolts instead of pressed in the housing.
Question for you. What is the make and model of that axle removal kit that you used at the end? Where did you purchase it? I have an 08 335xi that I'm replacing the front bearings in and can't find a removal tool that fits the front axles. If you could let me know I greatly appreciate it, great video and thanks. Eric
Gregg Balser, thanks for the reply. I found the wheel bearing puller red set on there but am needing the blue set that you used that connects on the spline of the axle. The set that you used to press the hub back on. Is that the set your referring to that should be on that site in a week or so? Thanks, Eric
Gregg, I have been checking that site and nothing yet. I will continue but do you know of any other site that sells that kit? I used that part number you provided with a Google search and nothing. I'm assuming that will be a bavauto part number. Can I get the same set anywhere else??? I really need one quick so I can get my front bearings changed. Thank you again on all of your help, much appreciated. Eric
Eric Peters Their shipment is due in any day. I have not seen this kit anywhere. I have seen very expensive individual tools around and I think BMW makes a dealer tool as well. The part # is unique to Bavauto.
Do you have any idea what the spline size is I ordered all my parts and supposedly they where all correct but my wheel hub is a 27 spline and axle is 30 so I need to figure out which one is wrong to get it done
Hey Brice I am having the same problem except reverse. I have an 09 328i xdrive and the hub has 30 splines however every parts website is saying that the axles for this model are 27 splines. So, I was wondering where you got your 30 spline axle. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
It's likely Gregg that all bmw hubs with the same metal fittings are in the same sorry state and where roads are being salted maybe even more progressed sooner rather than later
Good video especially considering it was all done on an iPhone, I’d imagine refitting the driveshaft into the differential was thought, did you split the velocity joint front the driveshaft? One expensive wheel bearing :(
Carl Richards. Thanks. it was a Google pixel xl The axle to diff was fine. Took out the bolts and slide to off the diff flange to the rear of the car and up. It was tight but not hard.
Not sure it can be found in the US. It came directly from Taiwan. You'll want to find one with at least a 10 pound weight. Just Google 10 pound slide hammer kit.
Nope. Just from the winter road salt in New England . Gets in behind the center cap of the wheel. BMW used some shitty coating on the nuts for a few years.
Butcher!! Take a flat end punch to the nut down the groove of the shaft and put a flat on the nut, drill into the nut until you hit the hub, then split the nut open with a thin chisel, the nut will leave the shft, then spray the shaft with release oil, hit the shaft in the centre and drift it a few milimeters, remove the eight torque screws on the inner shaft and drop the shaft past the diff, drift the shaft out of the hub. You can save your shaft, your hub, replace the cv joint or abs ring.
MrVideoyoulike because I couldn't find my holder for my phone and didn't own a tripod. Both of which I know have. My wife was unwilling to spend the day in the garage holding it like in one of the last clips.
Step #1: Invest in a carbide cutter bit set. Harbor Freight is your homie.
Step #2: Cut the nut to split the nut.
Step #3: Remove the split nut
Step #4: Unbolt axle from diff and drop the axle down out of the diff.
Step #5: Press the axle out of the hub. DON'T whack it, deforming / destroying the axle
Step #6: Slide hammer the hub off.
Step #7: Use a die grinder to cut a deep grove in the bearing race on the hub. use a chisel and a hammer or an air hammer to crack the bearing race so the bearing race can be slid off of the hub
Step #8: Remove the circlip. Use penetrating oil and heat if necessary
Step #9: Press out old bearing with Hub Tamer tool
Step #10: Press bearing in with Hub Tamer tool
Step #11: Install circlip
Step #12: Press in hub with hub tamer tool
Step #13: Install brake rotor
Step #14: Install ABS sensor
Step #15: install brake caliper bracket
Step #16 Install brake pads
Step #17: install brake caliper
Step #18: Install brake pad wear sensor
Step #19: Install wheel
Step #20: Torque lugs to 88 ft lbs or 100 ft. lbs depending on what size wheel bolts you have.
I tried to do this recently (I also have a 2009 335xi). I had to drill and break the axle nut to get it off - mine was as corroded as Gregg's. When I got to the bearing, I absolutely could not remove the center part. I tried every technique I've seen on TH-cam and on forums, but mine would not come out with any tools I had. I was able to break it and knock out every piece but the center. I was also able to remove the race from the hub. The only way I was able to move the center at all was by putting a piece of steel on it and hitting it several hundred times with a 4 lb. mallet. That moved it maybe two millimeters, and it dented the steel more than it moved the bearing! I had to get the car to a shop to finish this job, and they had to remove the knuckle and use a large shop press to push out the bearing. Consider this is a possibility (if yours is as tight as mine was) before you start this job.
My e90 has 180 k miles on it now and the thing looks just like this. I don't even bother trying to fix it, I throw it all out and replace all the parts involved with new ones. I've got a lot of respect for you to even putting up with this shit.
Great video! Pretty ironic that you just posted this and I just found the exact same rusted nut on my 2009 328ix a few days ago. Wheel bearing is o.k but now I have a good idea of what's ahead if bearing fails. 80,000 miles on car and I have never seen anything like this before on my past vehicles, Audi's and Saab's. Thanks for posting!
Another way buy the whole spindle with bearing already installed..but good work and learned alot..
Where did you find the spindle and bearing together?
I do these all the time best method is a good a oxy- acetylene and a good impact gun , trick is get the axle nut red hot all around and most of the rust will explode off the nut and hub then hammer a 12 point socket and go back and fourth with the impact gun and keep adding heat if it won’t go , then I use a otc hub tamer and I don’t even take any control arms off the the axle will pull out from back of the hub once it’s removed the the diff , and I live in Canada where new cars rust in less then a year lol
I wish I saw this earlier 😭
Should be a recall issue because mine is same way with only 70k miles.
My 2010 E92XI looks like this too.
This is a nightmare
That was a grim job to take on, good to watch :)
Nemz or thanks. Sorry the video quality was awful
It's the same with new bmws. I think when cleaning rims you must take off the cap and then remove all the water from inside because it doesn't have anywhere to drain.
Could have sharpened the air chisel and cut the nut in half, then hit it sideways with chisel and it comes off . Just like muffler nuts that rust .
Greg thanks for the insight, just bought a 2008 328i convertible whats the symthom, at low speed taking of there is a rumbling a though I'm going over rumble strips on side of the road after around 50 it disappears, how would you tackle the problem today too many people giving their opinion
Does it change intensity if you swerve left and right abruptly? I would jack the car up and spin the tires by hand and see if you can hear anything from the bearings. Also does it still have run flat tires? Sometimes those tires are noisy.
@@GreggBalser honestly rumbling is there if you serve in any direction it's there from about 20mph to 55 mph and it's gone at 60
@@GreggBalser could it be axel ? Is there a bearing in differential where axelnplugs in to
@@aaapalmer Possibly but it's not something I have seen before.
Can you please provide a link for the axle shaft to spline hole puller?i want to buy it but i cant find it anywhere
www.ecstuning.com/b-bav-auto-tools-parts/cv-axle-shaft-puller-wheel-bearing-hub-installer-kit-bavarian-autosport/b8800102~bav/
Let me know if that works
I used a dremel and carbide bit, cut it off in 15 mins
I would’ve definitely painted that so it has led rusting chances in the future... grata job?
Wax is better idea.
Mammoth effort and well done on execution ..I have to ask ..If you had known it was going to take so much energy to remove the bolt and axel would you have left it alone ..I have a 520d 2011 with exactly the same appearance on the rear hubs .
It needed a bearing very badly. Had to be done. Now that I have done it once I would just order a hub, bearing and axle and a new cutting wheel for my angle grinder. Would be much easier now that I have done it once
Geez did you film this with a jelo camera.
Nope. A Google Pixle 2. That phone had a garbage lazer auto focus.
Where did you buy the bearing press tool?
www.ecstuning.com/b-bav-auto-tools-parts/wheel-bearing-tool-master-set-bavarian-autosport/b8800092~bav/?gclid=CjwKCAiA44LzBRB-EiwA-jJipLACi0bew5OJzrRIgFxSUqgZW-OSdfKBFpIkcU3JytuKV3dlZsP_QhoCYS4QAvD_BwE
Harbor freight has em
I pray to god I never have to do a wheel bearing job like that. So glad my rear bearings are connected to the wheel carrier with 4 bolts instead of pressed in the housing.
Question for you. What is the make and model of that axle removal kit that you used at the end? Where did you purchase it? I have an 08 335xi that I'm replacing the front bearings in and can't find a removal tool that fits the front axles. If you could let me know I greatly appreciate it, great video and thanks. Eric
Eric Peters The tool will be available at Bavauto.com probably within a week. I have not seen it offered by anyone else.
Gregg Balser, thanks for the reply. I found the wheel bearing puller red set on there but am needing the blue set that you used that connects on the spline of the axle. The set that you used to press the hub back on. Is that the set your referring to that should be on that site in a week or so? Thanks, Eric
Eric Peters The set that was in the blue box is due into Bavauto soon (probably next week). The part # will be B8800102 @ $69.95.
Gregg, I have been checking that site and nothing yet. I will continue but do you know of any other site that sells that kit? I used that part number you provided with a Google search and nothing. I'm assuming that will be a bavauto part number. Can I get the same set anywhere else??? I really need one quick so I can get my front bearings changed. Thank you again on all of your help, much appreciated. Eric
Eric Peters Their shipment is due in any day. I have not seen this kit anywhere. I have seen very expensive individual tools around and I think BMW makes a dealer tool as well. The part # is unique to Bavauto.
Dude,you could've just took a carbide grinding bit to the nut to split it.Air hammer it off and save the hub+ axle
Yup....if I had one.
$100 and get a new axle ...problem sloved.
I removed everything with the whole axle lol F that
Do you have any idea what the spline size is I ordered all my parts and supposedly they where all correct but my wheel hub is a 27 spline and axle is 30 so I need to figure out which one is wrong to get it done
Brice Eddy sorry. I never thought to count the splines. that's a bummer. where did you get the parts?
Carid usually they have worked in the past but oh well ya win some ya loose some right? Haha
Sometimes? Now to fight to return them and find the right stuff. ;)
Hey Brice I am having the same problem except reverse. I have an 09 328i xdrive and the hub has 30 splines however every parts website is saying that the axles for this model are 27 splines. So, I was wondering where you got your 30 spline axle. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
It's likely Gregg that all bmw hubs with the same metal fittings are in the same sorry state and where roads are being salted maybe even more progressed sooner rather than later
Good video especially considering it was all done on an iPhone, I’d imagine refitting the driveshaft into the differential was thought, did you split the velocity joint front the driveshaft? One expensive wheel bearing :(
Carl Richards. Thanks. it was a Google pixel xl
The axle to diff was fine. Took out the bolts and slide to off the diff flange to the rear of the car and up. It was tight but not hard.
This is when you trade the Brake My Wallet for a Ford Crown Victoria, and how.
Haha....
what slide hammer did you use to get the hub off
Not sure it can be found in the US. It came directly from Taiwan. You'll want to find one with at least a 10 pound weight. Just Google 10 pound slide hammer kit.
Has this car been submerged in salt water?
Nope. Just from the winter road salt in New England . Gets in behind the center cap of the wheel. BMW used some shitty coating on the nuts for a few years.
Why that new axle doesn't have a Abs reluctor ring?
Fabio Fernandes it is built into the bearing. Newer BMWs don't have the ring on the axle anymore.
great job
Damn it, mine looks like this too
09 335xi
The axle nuts on my e92 are rusted as shit and I’m overdue for some bearings. This seems intimidating
Jack Clatchey definitely not for the novice. Need to have some tools and ingenuity.
Lord Vader how did it work out?
Is a good video....thanks....but is you stay recording witout cut.....is a lot better.
Butcher!! Take a flat end punch to the nut down the groove of the shaft and put a flat on the nut, drill into the nut until you hit the hub, then split the nut open with a thin chisel, the nut will leave the shft, then spray the shaft with release oil, hit the shaft in the centre and drift it a few milimeters, remove the eight torque screws on the inner shaft and drop the shaft past the diff, drift the shaft out of the hub. You can save your shaft, your hub, replace the cv joint or abs ring.
how come you did not show the process of taking the bearing out?
MrVideoyoulike because I couldn't find my holder for my phone and didn't own a tripod. Both of which I know have. My wife was unwilling to spend the day in the garage holding it like in one of the last clips.
new york really do be fucking up cars like this. my car is just as bad.
Rinsing it once a week helps
You sound exactly like seth rogan haha
😆
True
Come on down to Florida friend. 🌤👌🏽
Image all bmw owners move to florida will be over population.
Damn bro i have the same problem but in my vw jetta
Shame on bmw i all ways filled theme with grease to provent getting this bad.
Facing this right now 😑
Good luck
Same.. smh
Special tools that everyone owns ???
too much info skipped
I ♥️ U
just talking no action