Rear wheel bearings

You have to remove the rear uprights/hubs and strip the axles out. It is written up on Mike Dailey's site at http://www.panteraplace.com/page87.htm

Julian

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Originally posted by 74LQQKR:
I had the Pantera aligned today and the mechanic said that the rear wheel bearings had some play in them. The front was tight and only needed a slight toe-in. My question is how do I change the rear bearings?

Thanks

As Julian said its well covered but this is how I have done it this week with a bit of improvisation although you do need the tools but I didnt have the hyd-press so I went another way same result though.

Removed the hubs/uprights complete, dead easy.
Next the hard bit remove the nut I did it this way took a old brake disk off a Mercedes or any simular bolt pattern disc welded a 4ft pipe to it and fitted it to the hub.
Using the correct socket and a Torque Multiplier I have fit this to the nut the reaction bar end of the Multiplier was placed in a hole I drilled in my garage floor to hold it well in.
Fitted the torque wrench 1/2 inch to the Multiplier user end and removed the nut took 550lbs of torque but using this Multiplier I only have to exert a 100 lbft as its a 1:5 ratio, came straight off and very easy with this tool no struggle at all. Just be aware if your shafts are correct there left and right handed nuts mine had two l/h axles although at the torque needed to remove these baby's there was no way they were going to come undone!!.
My advice if you dont have a Multiplier borrow one failing that its a case of a 3/4 bar and a very very long pipe but will have a tendancy to lift the unit unless secure and the reaction rod stops this the way I had it in the floor over 1ft down, really did work a treat.
I then removed the drive shaft yolk with a puller dead easy then smashed the bearing inner cage and extracted the bearing with a internal bearing tool again no problem.
Remove the sleeve and clean the area of dirt and clean the shaft.
Supported the whole unit same way up and then using an external bearing puller and a piece of 2in x 2in square bar placed on the upright pulling on my caliper brackets very easy. Remove the lock plate tap the bearing out job done total time 30 minutes with a cup of tea, not bad at all just a pity my shaft was scrap though John(Panterauk)

Thanks all for the info.