Removing and installing front wheel bearing with wheel bearing housing installed — VW
Removing and installing front wheel bearing with wheel bearing housing installed on VW: 17 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Golf IV / Bora (1J)
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- Mark positions of bolts securing swivel joint to suspension link.
- Ensure sufficient clearance when pressing out drive shaft.
- Place engine/gearbox jackV.A.G 1383/A underneath (danger of accident from parts dropping out when wheel hub and wheel bearing are pulled out).
📋 Procedure
- Lift vehicle far enough to take weight off front wheels.
- Loosen 12-point nut.
- Raise vehicle to a suitable height.
- Remove wheel.
- Unscrew the upper coupling rod hexagon nuts from the left and right suspension strut.
- Pull out clip from brake hose bracket and detach brake hose.
- Unhook speed sensor wiring from suspension strut.
- Remove back plate with brake caliper or brake caliper and hang from body using wire Brake system46Repairing front brake.
- Mark positions of bolts securing swivel joint to suspension link.
- Remove bolts (arrows).
- Press out drive shaft. [Note: Ensure sufficient clearance when pressing out drive shaft.]
- Pull wheel bearing housing with swivel joint out of suspension link.
- Remove drive shaft from wheel bearing housing and tie up.
- Remove cross-head screw for brake disc and remove brake disc.
- Remove splash plate.
- Detach coupling rod from suspension link.
- Detach wire for speed sensor from suspension strut. [Note: Place engine/gearbox jackV.A.G 1383/A underneath (danger of accident from parts dropping out when wheel hub and wheel bearing are pulled out).]
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TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
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