There's an old old sand, but some days it's not fun to be a mechanic. I don't know who the original author of that statement is. Of course it could all be false too. All right here we are dim that light there we go working on a toyota.

I don't know what year it's a tacoma, i think a o3. Probably it's got the big two seven. It needs a rear wheel bearing uh. Actually, it needs it needs the wheel bearing on the other side, this bearing is okay uh, for whatever reason the feller wants to do both of them.

So i said: hey whatever only adds about another three hours and, however many hundreds of dollars this, bearing is from toyota plus the speed sensor. So it's quite an expensive job to do it's not for the faint of heart. Nor is it really for the diy to be honest with you. Well, i guess it could be.

It could be for the diy uh diy is unlikely to have the tools to press the bearing on and off. You need a little more than your conventional. Just you know, shot press there's a silly contraption that you hold on i've, done it without them, and it ain't fun. I'll.

Give i'll tell you that i'm gon na pinch off this brake hose over here to keep it from peeing on the ground, all right, so we're just gon na kind of chip away. At this thing, you've got ta unhook the brake line. Now we've got to unhook the axle here or start up bolting it. I've already sprayed this thing down and i'm going to work on it right here out of frame where you can't see crap.

However, there's four bolts on here they're all the same four nuts. Really so we'll get these all cracked loose one hook the speed sensor, we've got to get the parking brake, cable off and i guess, depending on where you live, and the condition of your yoda is how much extra stuff you're going to need from the dealer. Now, when i do these, i get the bearing and the speed sensor, because you'll never get that out and depending on how bad it is, you might need a wheel cylinder. You might need the backing plate.

You might need the parking brake cable, the brake line right here. Let's try to unhook the speed sensor can't get in on the release tip. Can you usually anytime? I touch that release tab in there they break. So i try to just come out here very genderly.

Just like that save the embarrassment of breaking it, so that's unhooked we're going to leave one of the nuts on, don't matter which one just at this point leave one of them on remove some of the springs here from the brakes so keep track of those and Where they go, i think i'm thinking we only got to take one side off could be wrong been wrong before and if you're not sure how this goes together, take a picture of it uh or don't. Tear apart the other side, assuming the other side is put together correctly. That is that would be my suggestion. So what we're trying to get at here? Okay, i think we got ta, take both sides off.

What we're trying to get at here is right here. The parking brake cable - that's the uh, that's the thing that we're after here so we'll. Let that kind of dangle open this little guy up just grab a hole over here. Talk to it nicely that baby out of there probably should take this off there too.

So let me go set these to the side. We do have to pull both sides off, because we've got to get to the bolts that hold the parking brake cable on there. She is hey, sometimes it's not worth the time to save time, but that i mean the stuff's in your way. Get it out the way uh where's the rest of our star adjuster, oh okay, it's still up there.

I mean you can leave some of this crap together. If you want to that's what we need to get to as those now they're, probably not going to come out, they go into aluminium. Does that scare us, though, a little bit now you just want to buy our brt sockets? Is that what they're called right, rbrt rbrt these things usually kind of crusty clanker right up on there? Did we bring a quarter inch ratchet osha? Now don't go hammering on these, she feels tight and it's torch time baby. Now, if you already bought a new parking, brake, cable, just snap them off you want to, we want a very gentle heat.

Oh you can only go so gentle with your tip. Come on baby, you know what i want. Oh, i want to turn on torch tanks. That's what i want hey look at that it makes them work 100 times better, don't get nasty just going to heat up that aluminum while holding tension on it.

I feel something. Oh, i feel it. I don't feel good. I hope she's gon na break, so i'm gon na back that one back off because you're just gon na snap i'll tell you right now.

Maybe not let me see no, maybe not! No, it's all good. It's all good! It's all good. Look at that yeah. I told you got ta trust yourself, there's that let's see that one's loose anyway, let's see if we can get up on this other one.

Now it's tighter up, that's right baby! So there's one uh looks like it. Didn't pull all the threads? So that's good i'll give this one a little too, because that one started getting kind of tight. Let's see if we can't snug it back up just a little, it might have got real tight nope all right, so it wants to snug and run it out here. These things are weird just for you know in a minute you're like yeah, i'm doing good.

You think: hey we're friends, everybody's happy boom head snaps off, so there's both of them, babies we'll set them to the side and then very gently set our torch. Let's see if we can give her one of these they're all wrong there we go. So that's like. I say this is really stupid design.

These things are aluminum down here: they're, aluminium and uh. Everything gets crowded and crappy in them. Oftentimes just did something on a raft for the other day, the cable likes to snap off right under this housing, and this truck is a um stick shift, and this cable is good. You can feel it's still sliding through there, so these cables do get used on this vehicle so that uh nut that i told you to keep on there that won't take it off now and then, if you got the slide hammer out, stick it on there.

If not we're gon na just give it a little tap on the back of this, bearing hope you know what we better get a tray, because it's going to keep the oil, it should come out pretty easy, oh and there it is. There is your wheel bearing and your toyota all right we're going to set this up right here, we're gon na change this seal. Also. Let me pop that over there with the bar of crying um and then there should be an overhang and o-ring here we did not get a new o-ring, so we're gon na have to reuse this, not a big deal.

Everybody just calm down, we'll get all the crusty crap off it we'll set aside. This all needs to be cleaned up. Also, uh tell you what let's set the o-ring right there take our rag. We don't want to get a bunch of junk down the tube.

Let's kind of stick that there for a false sense of security. We want a little better, false sense. There we go. There's that we're going to wizzy wheel that up real quick.

What a sunk huh did we get all the little rust flakes off the o-ring. Now we'll reinstall our slightly used o-ring, stick that back up on there, like that's, not a huge deal. If you forget it, let's get a seal. We got our seal directly from toyota now this dog, that seal does go in and bottom out.

So, let's use a disc make sure she starts evenly. She feels pretty solid, pretty flush all around and the spring didn't pop off. So that's good make some room on the board bench or your cart stuff. Actually we don't need that.

So we'll stick with that on the bottom shelf this we probably don't need this. Why don't you get two screws in me? I think we're good shape, but i don't need these anymore. Let's put them down and then grab your wheelbarrow step two. Now you got step one done step two.

You got ta remove the snapple. You know these things can be a son of a mother or a piece of cake like this one. So there's the snap ring. So that's what that thing looks like ticked out, don't lose it don't lose it at all uh now.

This is where we need a very specialized tool. Let's go party welcome to my press party. So there's that now the idea is we're going to press the axle. The monstrosity of the tool here is going to hold the bearing we're going to push the axle and the axle retainer right off.

Some guys will cut the lock ring prior to pressing on them. Uh i have found if it's got a lock ring or abs ring. I got another tool to get off the abs ring like on the nissans, because this is a universal tool: don't waste your money on the toyota specific one or buy them off the tool truck or like the otc ones? Those are very expensive and they only do one make this. This does toyota nissan.

Well, toyota. Nissan are the biggest ones. You know you do hundreds of tacomas and all that stuff titans. Anything with that front loading style, rear end.

All right, we'll stand back, so it doesn't explode. It's gon na scare us a little bit my baby and it gets me every time she going now. I think so it's when it gets real quiet. You won't be worried.

Jeff and maybe start looking for another job there, evp so wow kind of um. There's that there's our axle we pushed off still got to get the um race out, which that's another job in and of itself. If you're doing a press put a piece of wood on the floor so when she hits you're, okay and then there's a bearing oops, it's up in here, there's part of our locker ring. We should have another washer yep there.

It is, it should be concaved or convexed. I guess depends on which side you're looking at right, so you'll figure it out which way that goes stick with my axle just so we don't lose them and let's go back to our regular scheduled program there. That is um now go put this back on the shelf for the tools you hardly ever use shelf. I guess uh we got to get the studs out.

Hey look at this shooting the mechanic. Unless you got a waffle face claw hammer kicking around. Well, that's pretty quickly i'll tell you on a beat huh. Turkey hasn't even budged.

I should use one of the benches in the shop, but so there is that be mindful of the direction of the speed sensor. Aka, which way is it facing all right? So in relationship to the backing plate uh, this one is facing to the rear of the vehicle. So that's something to be mindful, because last thing you want to do is get this all put together and find out guess what you did it wrong. Dude - let's see here, that's good! We won't worry about cleaning up the rest of this poo until we get it out of the vehicle we just needed that shank.

So we need to get the seal out of there. So we'll come over here to the world's worst parts. Washer, let's see if we can't, let's see if we get this little splash, get that out of there. First we've got some room.

I hate this parts washer with a passion. That's fyi like crc brake clean, but they're parts, washers, sucks horse, crap, new york compliant garbage the seal's all part of the bearing we just want to be able to get underneath that race come on. Man come on man. Let's see here, she's a tough one.

There gosh gosh golly gee whiz, there's that now get to the spring there we go cut the spring, throw this stuff in my garbage. I don't know what i don't know. It's probably if we bang that out, we don't want to bust up the uh seal surface. There that's probably going to catch that enough to pull that off.

Let's go. Have a gander could get real stupid, not a bad idea if it works winter winter baby, hey, you.