Absolute perfection as an instructional video..No totally unnecessary whaffling...goes straight to it with speed and a dexterity borne of years of that priceless commodity...experience! Camera angles...marvellous! No irritating techno crap in the background,just the tinkering,clattering and hammering noises that are far more helpful.Thanks loads.
Great video! Very understandable and straight forward, easy to follow, this has helped me so much with my mk3 gti and also saved me a bit of money! thankyou!
improper packing of grease into bearings, insufficient grease in disc/bearing cavity. improper preloading too. most likely will lead to premature failure. great job!!!!!
Excellent video. My mk3 golf has a seized bearing on the rear. Garage said they tried heating it up but it's not moving. They say they can cut through the brake drum and I will need a new drum, axle spindle and possible brake overhaul. Doh!
It has been a long time since I pulled the rear disc from my 87 Scirocco and the Bentley just seemed a little weird. Thanks for the video and the reminder. 👍
Ok Ronh. I have the issue you are saying. I have a HEX Nut that looks like about a 28 something in size but how to know the exact size would you know please mate. Its the nut inside that holds the bearings on. Any help would be appreciated please.
Man to the rescue once again. Thanks Badger. I feel like a fool after taking my rotors back to the shop because they didn't have the spline on mine. I didn't know that it was a transferable part, I thought it was actually milled . What I'm wondering though is why you couldn't get the piston to retract with a C clamp and why you had to open the bleeder valve. Maybe I should have been doing that all these years. BTW my transmission is still working great thanks to your great instruction. Thanks mate. What happened to that nice quiet place you had in previous vids?
+John awesome buddy, great to hear your trans is working well! You can't just push back the pistons on these calipers as they contain the handbrake mechanism that adjusts with pad wear. You can break the mechanism by doing that. I usually open the bleeder valve when doing brakes as I normally change the fluid at the same time. Cheers!
Quite a good tutorial on the whole but several things surprised me, like the use of certain tools, like using a wrench to hammer the split pin out, what looked like a small screwdriver to knock the ABS ring off then tapping it onto the new disk with some pliers or something then using a plastic mallet to put the bearing in. Why didn’t you use that mallet to tap the ABS ring on? Then to top it all, BARE FEET in a workshop environment. Asking for injury. 😱
I noticed when you set the races by hand they were bare but when you showed the process with a press it was greased. Should I still grease if I’m setting by hand my good sir? Because that is what I’ll be doing
im in the process of restoring a mk3 vr6 but my grease cap wont go back on, any ideas why that would be so hard to get back on there? if i try to tap it with a rubber hammer i dent the cap before it tries to go in
Interesting. Everything on my golf 3 is the same - except for the rims. I've never seen a golf 3 with 5 lugnuts. I have the same rims, but with 4 lug nuts. Fancy.
If i want to replace disc only, i need to remove cap, the pin and then replace the grease? What can be wrong if i put new pads in and they simply wont fit even when the brake cylinder is turned all way back??
Don't need new bearings but I'm fairly certain I need knew ABS rings. Can I just pull the disc off and pop off the old rings and throw on new ones without messing with the bearings? Thanks.
i just had wheels and tires put on and the hand break line slightly rubs on the wheel just a small amount. Do you think this is a big concern? 1986 vw golf gti
+jesse grat if they're seized in there then heat will be the best way to get them out. If you don't have access to a way to heat them then try an actual penetrating oil rather than WD40. I've heard good things about Kroil.
Badgertronix thanks for your quick reply! I couldn't find kroil but I used seafoam deep creep penetrating oil and it worked great. sprayed it and let it sit for a while and the bolts all let go.
Badgertronix damn I was trying to save it since I'm swapping spindles between vehicles not replacing broken stuff. Yeah that's prolly what I'll have to do. I guess I'll just run it with no dust seal till I can buy a bearing set.
i came up with a different version then you I am in australia seems they added a HEX Nut holding in the bearings. It looks different because my nut is inside the housing a little not like yours. So I have a vernier caliper so how to I extract the size for the size hex nut tool I need please.
Yeah I did its a 20 MM Hex bolt. And I understand that more or less after the model you are working on it should have the hex bolt ? or is this just an australian thing.
BTW for your info my disk rotor came off of the hub. More like other videos I seen. I actually have a young guy on youtube pulling off the same as mine with the hex bolt. If you want the link let me know.
What year is your car? I've only ever seen them like my one. Mine is Japanese market, I doubt there's anything specific to the Australian market model.
2000 VW Golf. I been looking at other clips I noticed there is a large hex bolt rather then a hex nut to remove in some other VW Golf. I am guessing yet another variation. Seems the bolt is harder to get off. But mine is as said the Nut 20 MM Hex socket.
I have '01beetle - about to do brakes /calipers bearings soon. what is turn back the caliper pistons ?? I never seen that - can't you just push them back = pry bar or spec tool ? thx
+Key Topic the handbrake mechanism is in the rear calliper so you have to wind them back otherwise you'll damage them. Consult your service manual for your car. Cheers
+mark billington some brands of pads come with me bolts but these didn't so I reused the old ones. It's hard to get a torque wrench in to tighten them so I just make sure they're tight. Never had a problem doing it that way. Cheers!
+mark billington some brands of pads come with me bolts but these didn't so I reused the old ones. It's hard to get a torque wrench in to tighten them so I just make sure they're tight. Never had a problem doing it that way. Cheers!
It's all in the caliper. The piston rotates out as the pads wear and the handbrake is a lever than applies pressure on the pads. That's why you need to rotate the piston back in when you change the pads. Cheers!
So, it's a special grease or it's the same as my green one? I am not a mechanic, but I take care of my car (Golf MK2) all by myself, so I am looking to find helpful videos.
+Stefan Geos I'm sure the grease you use is fine. Check out my buddy Thomas EXOVCDS on RUclips, he has plenty of mk2 repair vids. All labeled VW A2 platform.
That bearing is going to live a short life. use a Bentley manual and a torque wrench. Your gonna want to get that grease INSIDE the bearing. Use a small Ziploc bag full of valvonline synthetic(do not use mobile one) and squish it around with the bearing inside. After over tightening to seat the bearing torque to 87 inch pounds? You may have to re torque the bearing at some point as it will break in. Use FAG(that's the high end kind you want) bearings. If you use cheap bearings or don't seat then torque correctly vw rear axle beam bearings expect about 6 months to a year? Ask me how I know. Mk3 specific.
+jeremy whittler hmmm you're wrong. This video is pretty old and those bearings are still perfect after all this time, mileage and track days. Maybe leave it to your mechanic if you can only get 6 months use out of them.
I am about to put zimmerman disc and pads on my mk3 GT but i am just realized i have to buy new bearings 😭😭 i already bought new brake calipers ... how much a fcking brake service is on this sh*t 😂😂
+Andon Metrefekseli these bearings have lasted 8 months so far including time on the race track. For $10 a side makes perfect sense to me. I've heard stories about Topran stuff but never had an issue myself. Cheers
Absolute perfection as an instructional video..No totally unnecessary whaffling...goes straight to it with speed and a dexterity borne of years of that priceless commodity...experience! Camera angles...marvellous! No irritating techno crap in the background,just the tinkering,clattering and hammering noises that are far more helpful.Thanks loads.
Thanks for the kind review
Great job and well done no horrible music in the background. Very interesting and helpful thanks once again
Great work, it helped me with my B4 passat same process as this. Thank you so much!
I'm doing the rear brakes on my B3 Passat and this video explained everything perfectly. Thanks!
Great, thanx 4 sharing!
My 1999 MK3.5 cab is the same as this,
and most tutorials on changing rear bearing is for MK3 with drums and not discs. 🙂👍
same process drums or discs
Great video! Very understandable and straight forward, easy to follow, this has helped me so much with my mk3 gti and also saved me a bit of money! thankyou!
This is an absolutely golden tutorial. Thanks man.
improper packing of grease into bearings, insufficient grease in disc/bearing cavity. improper preloading too. most likely will lead to premature failure. great job!!!!!
Still good after another 100,000 KMs. Must have been done right 🤷♂️
Excellent video. My mk3 golf has a seized bearing on the rear. Garage said they tried heating it up but it's not moving. They say they can cut through the brake drum and I will need a new drum, axle spindle and possible brake overhaul. Doh!
whose bright idea was it to build the hub and bearing onto a service part (brake disc)
this was my go to video for a walkthrough on getting it done on my mk3 ginster, thanks for the great video
awesome, thanks!
It has been a long time since I pulled the rear disc from my 87 Scirocco and the Bentley just seemed a little weird. Thanks for the video and the reminder. 👍
glad it helped
They honey badger don't care, it don't give a shit. It just takes whatever video it wants. Badass man! Thanks
+ROMAN CONTRACTING cheers!
Very well done description, thank you. I have an 81 rabbit and can't find any videos but this seems fairly close.
Thanks for watching. From memory the Rabbit is pretty similar to this. Cheers!
Fake. Working on an "older" VW and didn't even cuss once... I don't buy it.
Ha ha. Great DIY.
+ronh129 haha very true! Cheers
Ok Ronh. I have the issue you are saying. I have a HEX Nut that looks like about a 28 something in size but how to know the exact size would you know please mate. Its the nut inside that holds the bearings on.
Any help would be appreciated please.
His kids are probably watching and he doesn't want to corrupt their little minds with expletives....rather let TV do that.
Just wanted to say, thanks for the great video badger. ! From northeast ohio.
I'm sure this video will prove useful for me in the next few days, thanks for posting 😀 👍🏻
Excellent! Enjoy! I'm still running the bearings I installed here 3 years later with no issues.
@@Badgertronix I might just buy a piston wind-back tool, not too much money on ebay
Definitely easier with the tool. I have a good one now thankfully
thanks for the video. got a powerstop brake kit and they didn't come with the bearings. turns out I need to buy them seperately.
thanks for the great video, can't really ask for any more from a diy
Thanks
Man to the rescue once again. Thanks Badger. I feel like a fool after taking my rotors back to the shop because they didn't have the spline on mine. I didn't know that it was a transferable part, I thought it was actually milled . What I'm wondering though is why you couldn't get the piston to retract with a C clamp and why you had to open the bleeder valve. Maybe I should have been doing that all these years.
BTW my transmission is still working great thanks to your great instruction. Thanks mate.
What happened to that nice quiet place you had in previous vids?
+John awesome buddy, great to hear your trans is working well! You can't just push back the pistons on these calipers as they contain the handbrake mechanism that adjusts with pad wear. You can break the mechanism by doing that. I usually open the bleeder valve when doing brakes as I normally change the fluid at the same time. Cheers!
great stuff, I'll be checking out more of your videos, nice and clear, cheers!
+Brent Dysart awesome. Thanks!
Do you release the handbrake before removing hand brake cable 👍
Quite a good tutorial on the whole but several things surprised me, like the use of certain tools, like using a wrench to hammer the split pin out, what looked like a small screwdriver to knock the ABS ring off then tapping it onto the new disk with some pliers or something then using a plastic mallet to put the bearing in. Why didn’t you use that mallet to tap the ABS ring on? Then to top it all, BARE FEET in a workshop environment. Asking for injury. 😱
you must be fun at parties
Out of curiosity, how would you take off the dust shield?
I noticed when you set the races by hand they were bare but when you showed the process with a press it was greased. Should I still grease if I’m setting by hand my good sir? Because that is what I’ll be doing
im in the process of restoring a mk3 vr6 but my grease cap wont go back on, any ideas why that would be so hard to get back on there? if i try to tap it with a rubber hammer i dent the cap before it tries to go in
Interesting. Everything on my golf 3 is the same - except for the rims. I've never seen a golf 3 with 5 lugnuts. I have the same rims, but with 4 lug nuts. Fancy.
VR6s & GTI s have 5. This one is a VR6
@sathir-5990 my 98 gti has 4 too.
If i want to replace disc only, i need to remove cap, the pin and then replace the grease?
What can be wrong if i put new pads in and they simply wont fit even when the brake cylinder is turned all way back??
Wrong pads?
Is it easy handy enough to take the race (and old bearing) out of a previous rear brake disc, so as to replace the bearing but reuse the disc?
What's the name of that grease
This was very helpful thank you so much
+Jack Dempsey Thanks, glad it helped :)
I did a change to mine and the new bearings went out and after ur video i saw i didnt snug the nut down and set the bearing correctly
Don't need new bearings but I'm fairly certain I need knew ABS rings. Can I just pull the disc off and pop off the old rings and throw on new ones without messing with the bearings? Thanks.
Yes
Very good DIY. I am envious. I mean it. But very good video.
No shit chit chat boom job well done bud 👍👏
thanks
can you do this without replacing the brakes??
yes
i just had wheels and tires put on and the hand break line slightly rubs on the wheel just a small amount. Do you think this is a big concern? 1986 vw golf gti
I wouldn't be happy with it
Really useful video, thanks!
+bob54 Thanks for watching. Cheers!
Can you send me a link where you got the parts
They're very common. Any parts shop will have them
I cannot get the 8mm carrier bolts to budge at all. even with a snipe off my hex socket. and plenty of wd40. any suggestions would be appreciated.
+jesse grat if they're seized in there then heat will be the best way to get them out. If you don't have access to a way to heat them then try an actual penetrating oil rather than WD40. I've heard good things about Kroil.
Badgertronix thanks for your quick reply! I couldn't find kroil but I used seafoam deep creep penetrating oil and it worked great. sprayed it and let it sit for a while and the bolts all let go.
Freeze all the bearing parts first. They will slide in without the impact of the hammer
Great videos. I subscribed ! 👍🏻
Awesome!
:)
Great video ! Help me alot, thank you !
Cheers! Thanks for watching
Muy Buen Video....Gracias...
+mexihoosier Cheers!
Good vid and thank you. What size socket did you use for the smaller front race ?
Thanks for watching. 29mm for the smaller race. Cheers!
any idea how to get the rear bearing off if it's seized on the shaft? the brake rotor pulled off past it somehow 😭
+elgrandechorizo probably an angle grinder and chisel if it's seized solid like that
Badgertronix damn I was trying to save it since I'm swapping spindles between vehicles not replacing broken stuff. Yeah that's prolly what I'll have to do. I guess I'll just run it with no dust seal till I can buy a bearing set.
Badgertronix thanks for the reply man, good video..
+elgrandechorizo maybe penetrating oil and hope if you're trying to save it! Thanks for watching
would it damage anything if I use a c-clap to push back the piston?
+Blue B6ZE yes. You will destroy the handbrake mechanism. The piston has to be rotated back into the calliper.
i came up with a different version then you I am in australia seems they added a HEX Nut holding in the bearings. It looks different because my nut is inside the housing a little not like yours. So I have a vernier caliper so how to I extract the size for the size hex nut tool I need please.
Weird, not seen one like that before. Measure it with the caliper and you'll be good
Yeah I did its a 20 MM Hex bolt. And I understand that more or less after the model you are working on it should have the hex bolt ? or is this just an australian thing.
BTW for your info my disk rotor came off of the hub. More like other videos I seen. I actually have a young guy on youtube pulling off the same as mine with the hex bolt. If you want the link let me know.
What year is your car? I've only ever seen them like my one. Mine is Japanese market, I doubt there's anything specific to the Australian market model.
2000 VW Golf. I been looking at other clips I noticed there is a large hex bolt rather then a hex nut to remove in some other VW Golf. I am guessing yet another variation. Seems the bolt is harder to get off. But mine is as said the Nut 20 MM Hex socket.
I have '01beetle - about to do brakes /calipers bearings soon.
what is turn back the caliper pistons ?? I never seen that - can't you just push them back = pry bar or spec tool ?
thx
+Key Topic the handbrake mechanism is in the rear calliper so you have to wind them back otherwise you'll damage them. Consult your service manual for your car. Cheers
Hey thanks - I just recalled I do have a manual too !
Nice vid man.
Do you fit new bolts to the brake calipers , also do you torque up the caliper or carrier bolts ?
+mark billington some brands of pads come with me bolts but these didn't so I reused the old ones. It's hard to get a torque wrench in to tighten them so I just make sure they're tight. Never had a problem doing it that way. Cheers!
+mark billington some brands of pads come with me bolts but these didn't so I reused the old ones. It's hard to get a torque wrench in to tighten them so I just make sure they're tight. Never had a problem doing it that way. Cheers!
Thanks! Great video!
+Brittany Eberl cheers and thanks for watching!
Nice video, thanks. How does the hand brake mechanism work, I assumed it was a drum?
It's all in the caliper. The piston rotates out as the pads wear and the handbrake is a lever than applies pressure on the pads. That's why you need to rotate the piston back in when you change the pads. Cheers!
Does anyone know if it possible to do a 5 stud hub conversion on a mk3 golf gl?
Yes it is
How you do it.. Its amazing!
+Фёдор Кротенко Thanks. Glad you like it!
14:14 Liked "Grease your shaft".
Lube it or lose it 😂
great work
+Adis Most Thanks!
What kind of grease is that? I always use some green colored grease.
that's Timken wheel bearing grease. Not sure why it's red.
So, it's a special grease or it's the same as my green one?
I am not a mechanic, but I take care of my car (Golf MK2) all by myself, so I am looking to find helpful videos.
+Stefan Geos I'm sure the grease you use is fine. Check out my buddy Thomas EXOVCDS on RUclips, he has plenty of mk2 repair vids. All labeled VW A2 platform.
Oh, nice, thanks. Your videos are helpful too. And what's that copper stuff you are using? Never seen that before.
+Stefan Geos Thanks. It's anti-seize grease. It's used to stop things rusting and to prevent brake noise.
why i am crying on my knees at garage with rusted vw and in these videos that not happens)))))
Good job thanks for the video
Thanks for watching
You didn’t need a press ?
No
Slamming your hands on wrenches catches up with you big mistake pain 20- 30 years later
It's best avoided
Great info, and thanks for busting your knuckles making the video 👍🍺
Thanks for watching and hope it helped you out!
what golf is it, mk3?
yup, MK3. MK2 and 1 similar.
How far does the outter bearing need to go in like?
+Jonathan Goddard into the disk? It goes in until it seats up against the flange. Knock it in until it won't go any further.
Yeah! Bisltein
+SantaRAp under haha yep!
That bearing is going to live a short life. use a Bentley manual and a torque wrench. Your gonna want to get that grease INSIDE the bearing. Use a small Ziploc bag full of valvonline synthetic(do not use mobile one) and squish it around with the bearing inside. After over tightening to seat the bearing torque to 87 inch pounds? You may have to re torque the bearing at some point as it will break in. Use FAG(that's the high end kind you want) bearings. If you use cheap bearings or don't seat then torque correctly vw rear axle beam bearings expect about 6 months to a year? Ask me how I know. Mk3 specific.
+jeremy whittler hmmm you're wrong. This video is pretty old and those bearings are still perfect after all this time, mileage and track days. Maybe leave it to your mechanic if you can only get 6 months use out of them.
Badgertronix Ahahaha. Loving the sass 😂. Great video cheers mate, I'm tackling mine on Monday 😊.
HEALTH AND SAFETY , wheres your shoes lol
I had my Samoan safety shoes on
#Thank #You !!!!
I am about to put zimmerman disc and pads on my mk3 GT but i am just realized i have to buy new bearings 😭😭 i already bought new brake calipers ... how much a fcking brake service is on this sh*t 😂😂
New bearings are like $5 🤷♂️
@@Badgertronix yeah topran... but i want quality
@@davidnagy5611 splash out on the $10 one then
@@Badgertronix in europe prices are higher. Let it be 40$
Doesn't make any sense using hi quality Timken grease ,and Topran cheap probably Chinese bearings .
+Andon Metrefekseli these bearings have lasted 8 months so far including time on the race track. For $10 a side makes perfect sense to me. I've heard stories about Topran stuff but never had an issue myself. Cheers
Very profissional LOOOLLLL
+Miguel Ganchas sure is. Cheers
Clean your shaft 😉😂
Important advice that can be applied to a lot of situations
Hallo loite fom was ist diese blode werbung fom welchen Job werd hir reklamirt seid ihr blod 😢
Mk5 are the easiest to do
they have more problems than the MK4
B
+Derek March 😀
Do you need to change the master cylinder? What about the prop valve?
Is it handy enough to remove the races (and bearings) from the current rear brake disc, in the case of replacing the bearings but reusing the disc?