brake problem!!!
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I use a bearing packer similar to the one in the video. A lot easier, faster, and almost idiot proof way to any roller bearing.
YouTube - Deluxe Bearing Packer Demonstration - etrailer.com
YouTube - Deluxe Bearing Packer Demonstration - etrailer.com
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I have seen this several times where the old wheel bearings go bad and overheat the spindle and the spindle expands a few thousandths of an inch. Try as Motel Mel has stated with emery cloth. I have also had to use a dremil tool with the abrasive barrel and "grind down" the spindle until the bearing slides on. I just used a 3" air sander with 36 grit sand paper on a Mercedes with this exact problem last weekend. Just take\grind\sand the spindle down until the bearing lightly seats with hand pressure.
Tuned
Joined: Mar 2010
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Is there any chance you mixed up the inner and outer wheel bearings? They are different sizes. If that's not the case, and you have the right ones in the right places (which you probably do), are you wiggling the hub as you're attempting to install it? Sometimes the bearings won't sit 100% in the hub. Otherwise, you need to do what was said three times earlier...
Get some emery cloth (it's cheap!) and use it on the spindle to take a small amount of material off until it slides on!
~B
