cougar v6 wheel bearings , abs or none abs, that is the question.

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rich_bloor

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Hi,

I need front wheel bearings on my v6 cougar, I've called ford and a few parts shops but they say 'on the system' my car is none abs, my car has an abs and traction control light amongst others that comes on and goes off when I start the car. This suggests to me my car has abs.

Is there any difference between abs and none abs wheel bearings, I'd have thought they were the same.

Does anyone know?
 
Later fords have them built into the bareing, rather than having a reluctor ring and an external sensor like ours have.
 
Agreed. They'll never last long if the cages get distorted by hammering them in - which they will. It's one of those "there's a right way and a wrong way to do it" jobs
 
Gotta disagree there Jamie :)
I spent a year building gearboxes during my apprenticeship, all bearings and seals, large and small were fitted using a hammer and various size sleeves. So long as you know how to go about it and everything is supported as it should be then it not "the wrong way" at all. In fact, its fairly easy to mess up a bearing fitting using a press.
 
dogsbody said:
Gotta disagree there Jamie :)
I spent a year building gearboxes during my apprenticeship, all bearings and seals, large and small were fitted using a hammer and various size sleeves. So long as you know how to go about it and everything is supported as it should be then it not "the wrong way" at all. In fact, its fairly easy to mess up a bearing fitting using a press.
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This is the way i was taught originally, of course we had presses at work for the job, but for the average car, a tapping stick and the appropriate drift will be enough, again, providing you know what you're doing. Nearest i've ever had to a home press is the engineers bench vice, marvelouse invention that :). The bearing sets on cars nowadays really are simple in comparison to the old rear wheel drive halfshafts etc. Last set i did iirc were for Scott aka brabenv6 between two concrete slabs on the garden path :)(y)
 
Knock yourselves out - I'll stick to the press!

Alan - I managed to break a huge bench vice belonging to British Airways in half in my early days trying to use it to press out a Clio front wheel bearing with a scaffolding pole for extra leverage.

Mart - gearboxes are generally a bit different though and the tolerances of the bearings are different. The design of the system itself doesn't rely on a lot of shear on the bearing shells in the way that car wheel bearings do because the thrust loads are absorbed differently. If you're doing a car wheel bearing with proper sleeves then that's different too. I try to be careful what I say on here because the sleeves aren't obvious to newbies to mechanical matters!

I've seen firsthand the results of someone trying car DIY without a clue (sadly after I'd bought the car) and when you say wheel bearing and hammer in the same sentence, most folk will literally hit the wheelbearing with the hammer! Argh!!!!! Ok that's fine for the outgoing one but I've seen a new one absolutely f***ed (but fitted) this way. It looked like one of those beaten copper plates albeit with crescent moon shapes rather than ballpein circles all over it.

It's not that I have completely lost faith in the male gender of society due to a proliferation of hair straighteners and fragrences for men, honest. :(
 
I have seen a bench vice snap under load while being used as a press, not nice at all. Don't get me wrong, if i had a press for the job, then a press i would use, but over the years i learned how to improvise. Persitant light tapping, almost a plannishing action around the outer race until it hits bottom, i can fully understand how this is not a job for the un-initiated.
 
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