I honestly love watching you work because I like to do everything like you! Not just correct, but all the extra little steps that a lot of online mechanics skip or don't talk about. Touches like wire the brush on a drill for the pin bores, reinstalling the factory brake line grommet, and even wanting the bearing to match its race then realizing you should probably just get over it. So I guess other than us apparently sounding the same, we also have the same car work ethic! Though you have far more experience. Hopefully I'll have some nicer cars like you soon. ;)
Dude I love watching your vids I am a new tech working at a hyudai dealership and you make a really good teacher thank you so much brother much love to the tech life
13:35 To tap in the cap I usually just get a socket that is big enough to fit over the cap but will sit on the ridge and tap it on like that. Easy peasy and no damaged caps!
Just did this exact job on my buddy's Cabrio. His rear calipers had the bearing races installed already as well, I think they were from ECS if I remember correctly. His driver side e brake cable was rusted to the tube and was a PITA to get it free. All said and done we go everything tied up in about 4 hours. His brake fluid looked just about the same, it was definitely time for a flush!
The reason the cavity in the rotor, between the bearings, is supposed to be packed with grease is to prevent water condensation from collecting a puddle of water. Then, your bearings are rolling around in rusty water. It’s nice when you run across repair manuals that give you those little explanations. When I was a kid, I couldn’t wrap my head around why I was supposed to “waste” a half of can of grease doing it
Timely video... I have to change the rear rotors on my 2107 VW Alltrack, for the second time in about a year. Due to shipping snafu on the part of the online parts supplier, I had to go with (cheap) Auto Zone rotors the last time around and after a month of fairly hot summer temps, one of them is warped. So every time I hit the brakes, I get pulsing. The bitch of it all is that I live in New England, and thanks to road salt, everything is rusted up pretty good. It was a pain in the ass doing the brakes when I did them last summer! Wish I had a lift, but have to suffice with a car jack and stands, out in the driveway. Love your channel Charles! Learned a lot of helpful tips over the last year or so I've been tuning in!
@@HumbleMechanic Yeah, tell me about it! Pays to get higher quality parts from the start, but unfortunately, I had everything torn apart when I realized that the online parts warehouse sent me the wrong rotors and pads (their fault, not mine) and being a Sunday, none of the local VW dealership service depts were open. Auto Zone it was... Lesson learned, again.
Thanks for sharing your videos. Brought back memories of my 1986 Jetta GLI. Parking break functioned but got to the point where it couldn’t keep the car from rolling down the level driveway in a brisk wind. And yes that was with it in gear. 😂 +280k had its own way with the compression but it still ran great. Had to carry wheel chocks. Got 38MPG to the day I parked it the last time. At the time it failed to hold my attention when compared with my 1993 Passat GLX. It passed away parked in the back of a two car deep garage. Still miss both of those two amazing cars.
As an apprentice i got a new journeyman. Asked him what we would be doing that day he said "you pack the grease i do everything else" watched him a bit. Then he gave me crap about not having started yet and "waisting his time" so i grabbed the bearing packer. Did the bearings and was back 2 mins later. He was really annoyed he took the brunt of the work to "keep his hands clean" and didn't know the bearing packer exsisted.
Mercedes I think still uses serviceable conical front bearings on the front axle. They have had this setup forever. What they do differently is that they have a separate hub that the outer races are pressed into and the disk and wheel bolt to that. So you don't have to deal with bearings when doing brakes. If I remember correctly they say to pack the bearings and add some extra around them and specify the weight of grease to be used in grams. The tightening spec is given by measuring the end play and that's 0.01mm-0.02mm I think.
I actually do a lot of bearings and races at my work (I do trailer safeties and repairs as part of my job), and my method for tightening down the spindle nut is to tighten just enough that it makes the drum/rotor drag, then back it off until it spins freely but doesn't have any in and out play (while still being able to line the cotter pin up through the hole)
My first MK3 brake job I wasn't aware of the bearing races. My rotors didn't have them installed and it made a pretty horrible noise after a few miles. Now I have a pipe fitting that has the correct diameter on each side to seat the races.
Bearing races are in general fine to intermingle, if they are from the same manufacturer and the same batch, as they will tend to be all ground to the exact same dimensions. You can even use different batches, but for close tolerance they might be slightly different due to the settings being slightly different between runs, but changing manufacturer is iffy, but still you will get good life out of them. Only with precision bearings will you have to use matched pairs, but if you are using them in a vehicle almost no bearing is in any way going to fall in this category till you are into parts like the AC compressor, and the crank and main bearings. Fun thing is that VW rear bearing is very commonly used on trailers, so to repack the light duty trailers it is a lot cheaper to go buy the aftermarket VW rear bearing kit instead of the trailer manufacturer kit, and use it instead. Normally the caps will not fit off the bat, so you need to either reuse the old one, or spend a bit of quality time with a hammer to make the new cap shrink to fit the diameter.
It is very surprisingly to see, almost every vw from the near the same production year are share the same mechanism platform, I should see this before I dump my little to the shop to fixing the leaking brake fluid.
Awesome video Charles. I have an 2018 Jetta And this reminds me to do my brake lines and upgrade them to the stainless steel. My son just picked up at 2010 golf definitely doing the brake upgrade on that one too. Love seeing these videos
my DV went on my mk5 gti. she going in on wednesday to get thermorstate plugs and just an overhaul check over. cant wait to have her back to full boost! :) atm she feels like a NA 2.0 :D love the content mate!
With serviceable bearings like that I like to put an extra 'wob' of grease (yeah scientific measurement) in the cavity between the bearings just to make sure there lots in there when the hub heats up and the grease liquifies.
Could you do a short (or medium) on sunroof drain cleaning? either the 4 corners or pref the mk7+ 2 corners? I can snake them, but I'm wondering about spider traps or screens at the bottom. Thanks Charles!
Did you already find a new owner? This has been a dream car but market where I live is awful. “Runs perfect just shakes over 20mph and none of the gauges work. Top is worn but only leaks in the back seat. Would drive the car anywhere.”
I have a very similar Golf 4 Cabrio , same in red and need to change rear brakes. Thanks for tutorial) P. S. My left caliper is roasted and jamed, so, need to replace both calipera as well
Most new rotors are treated with protective emulsion that need to be removed before installing, that's the reason why they may squeak. Also touching pads with dirty hands is no go
the rear pads look like the same as the rear on my car, even with these springs. for me it is really hard to not bend one of those ears inward on accident. it really happens very easily
I much prefer the simple, yet effective, bearings system with the cotter pin and not much torque for tightening the nut, as opposed to my Ford's 235Nm multi layered, one use only, expensive nut to hold the rear drums. And after 235Nm one wheel still has a tiny little bit of play in the bearings.
@@HumbleMechanic Sorry to hijack, but you mean that as long as the ABS module and lines to master cyl aren't cracked open, I wouldn't need to use the scantool for a brake flush/bleed on a 2009 Jetta? That would be great to hear!
INTELLECTUAL HumbleMechanic Tutorial great video brilliant 👏 👌 👍 Take care and have a great day INTELLECTUAL HumbleMechanic From Nick Ayivor from London England UK 🇬🇧
Good stuff man you got 200k worth of tools and the cheapest caliper piston tool lol I like the ones that pump like a caulk gun but I still have my original one the same style you used
I'd just like to comment that I've had a friend who had bad brakes, I offered to change all 4 with new ceramics & rotors and do a brake flush for parts only, ~$400. Just some beers no labor. She declined and said it was too expensive. Went and spent $600 at the dealer just to do the fronts with a flush a month later. ಠ_ಠ
wow 400 for rotors and pads on a VW that isnt a Friend looking for a few beers , now i am talking about a 1998 -2005 VW Cabrio or Jetta there pads and rotors full set and bearing can be had for around a 100 or so bucks , so in guessing your talking about some other Model car i just did a 1998 Cabrio front and back rotors rears with the bearings , pads and the emergency brake cables flush break fluid for a grand total of 125 and some change in parts and fluid and the parts were not even the least expensive i could get so but i also did the job at a Fathers rate which is very cheap but yeah the break shop are money pits in all fairness your friend made a costly blunder indeed .
@@CalmDownClown yeah wtf? I just looked up and good quality set from Brembo, Bosch etc is like 100 bucks total. 400 is already a rip-off even if it included labour. Unless he is talking about completely different car.
Great video Charles, Are mk4s about the same animal for brakes ? The only difference I see from not having taken it down yet is my '03 Jetta has a 5 lug wheel.
same here a 03 Jetta good question as i havent took mine apart yet either justa quick peek i did notice the emergency brake seems to be very close to the same as the earlier ones , probably has the calipers that sort of cork screw in tho very VW ish on the rears so at least No messy rear bearings to have fun with !! i did notice tho finding the best size rotors can be sketchy mine are close to the size of the dust shield so im at odds as to which is best they might be a over sized set on the rear the one it has on are like .276 if im seeing them right and def way bigger than the family Cabrios rears which at least an inch of the dust shield could be seen . probably just had someone went bigger on the Jetta
@@HumbleMechanic Well, 270k on the clock ... I'm gradually going over most everything. Many O rings have been changed so far and brakes are next. Thanx again
What if the arm on the parking brake doesn't rest on the stop even though there is no tension on cable? There is like a 1/4 inch gap. On my B6 A4 the parking brake engages fully on one caliper but on the other one it barely engages. It has an automatic parking brake adjuster so I can't adjust it so that it pulls more on one caliper. I have a feeling that the internal mechanism on the caliper is either completely seized or just rusted enough that it causes the auto adjuster to pull less on the cable.
10:00 He visto muchas veces a gente que se pone grasa en la palma de la mano para engrasar un rodamiento y siempre me pareció una burrada. Hay quienes lo hacen porque "siempre se hizo" (justificativo estúpido) Hay muchos brutos que lo hacen. Ese simple dispositivo que usted usa me resulta genial y muy efectivo, sin necesidad de hacer un desperdicio y una cagada de grasa.
was thinking of getting this kind of job with upgrade kit for my 2013 passat. i am in massachusetts, i want to get my own mechanic if possible that will let me hang around and work on my car too. i am wondering how much this generally costs for labor?
Hello Charles Cant belive the timing of this video i swear I have an golf 5 tdi and the rear wheel driver side it heats up alot. I already checked the caliper,pads and abs sensor no issues. So i checked the disc and its not deformed or has uneven wear,no abs or brake faults on computer check. The thing is that once im up to speed in 4-5 gear even in the straight road i can hear like a whistle noise so im not sure but i think its the wheel bearing but i dont know if that is the real cause of the heat of i should change the caliper?! Caliper piston is really soft i can easily push it back to its place buy using little force! Any guess?
I've never seen a rotor/drum that had separate bearings not have a race installed. It never made sense since you want to use the race that came with your new bearing.
When I start my VW golf with AC at on position, my engine light come on. If I turn on my AC after I start my car, no engine light on. Any idea what's going on? lol
Enjoyed the video, as usual but I'm not a fan of some of the german engineering. I hear that these days you need special equipment just to be able to push back the piston in order to remove the caliper, wow, got to give it to VW to make things difficult. I guess it keeps the mechanics happy but it makes me wanna stay away from this brand, although I drove my friends Golf III and I immediately like the way it. Thanks for all the videos.
allthough you are a competent mechanic a lot of people are not and it scares the shit out of me thinking about how many cars have botched brake jobs by people who know just enough to be dangerous... i have been fixing cars for over 40 years and you would not belive the botch jobs i have seen not just on the brakes lol.
Aren't those handbrake cables a bitch because they point upwards near the very end, often causing condensation water intrusion and frozen handbrakes in cold climates?
@@HumbleMechanic The best pizza I've had is Joe & Pete's in Hickory Hills, IL. I'm a thin crust guy though. Great vid ... all my years wrenching, not many VWs so thanx for the breakdown before I have to.
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That is only online. Try it in the store and you will get a funny look. I may or may not manage one of their stores so I know about which I speak.
Thanks for finally letting us know. When did it change from humble25?
@@Dave-in-MD I just give everyone a funny look. Then again, I don't work at advance.
I paused the video and immediately went to my shop and labeled the brake bleeder "Forbidden apple cider".
I honestly love watching you work because I like to do everything like you! Not just correct, but all the extra little steps that a lot of online mechanics skip or don't talk about. Touches like wire the brush on a drill for the pin bores, reinstalling the factory brake line grommet, and even wanting the bearing to match its race then realizing you should probably just get over it. So I guess other than us apparently sounding the same, we also have the same car work ethic! Though you have far more experience. Hopefully I'll have some nicer cars like you soon. ;)
Thanks dude. I appreciate it
Dude I love watching your vids I am a new tech working at a hyudai dealership and you make a really good teacher thank you so much brother much love to the tech life
13:35 To tap in the cap I usually just get a socket that is big enough to fit over the cap but will sit on the ridge and tap it on like that. Easy peasy and no damaged caps!
Yup - same here!
Just did this exact job on my buddy's Cabrio. His rear calipers had the bearing races installed already as well, I think they were from ECS if I remember correctly. His driver side e brake cable was rusted to the tube and was a PITA to get it free. All said and done we go everything tied up in about 4 hours. His brake fluid looked just about the same, it was definitely time for a flush!
The reason the cavity in the rotor, between the bearings, is supposed to be packed with grease is to prevent water condensation from collecting a puddle of water. Then, your bearings are rolling around in rusty water. It’s nice when you run across repair manuals that give you those little explanations. When I was a kid, I couldn’t wrap my head around why I was supposed to “waste” a half of can of grease doing it
Can use lithium grease ?
@@babagandu To pack that cavity? I don’t see why not. Better than none. But, use something better on the bearings themselves
The why is so important.
Use bit of exhaust pipe to keep from crushed the bearing cap. Cheap and effective.
thanks charles for not giving up on the older dubs!
It's remarkable how similar this is to the mk1 (aside from the whole 'drum brake' thing). Thanks for the great info!
Timely video... I have to change the rear rotors on my 2107 VW Alltrack, for the second time in about a year. Due to shipping snafu on the part of the online parts supplier, I had to go with (cheap) Auto Zone rotors the last time around and after a month of fairly hot summer temps, one of them is warped. So every time I hit the brakes, I get pulsing. The bitch of it all is that I live in New England, and thanks to road salt, everything is rusted up pretty good. It was a pain in the ass doing the brakes when I did them last summer! Wish I had a lift, but have to suffice with a car jack and stands, out in the driveway.
Love your channel Charles! Learned a lot of helpful tips over the last year or so I've been tuning in!
Man that sucks you're having to do it again!
@@HumbleMechanic Yeah, tell me about it! Pays to get higher quality parts from the start, but unfortunately, I had everything torn apart when I realized that the online parts warehouse sent me the wrong rotors and pads (their fault, not mine) and being a Sunday, none of the local VW dealership service depts were open. Auto Zone it was... Lesson learned, again.
I learned that lesson long ago too - can't skimp on rotors or pads (or tyres), or you are setting yourself up for pain.
Thanks for sharing your videos. Brought back memories of my 1986 Jetta GLI. Parking break functioned but got to the point where it couldn’t keep the car from rolling down the level driveway in a brisk wind. And yes that was with it in gear. 😂 +280k had its own way with the compression but it still ran great. Had to carry wheel chocks. Got 38MPG to the day I parked it the last time. At the time it failed to hold my attention when compared with my 1993 Passat GLX. It passed away parked in the back of a two car deep garage. Still miss both of those two amazing cars.
As an apprentice i got a new journeyman. Asked him what we would be doing that day he said "you pack the grease i do everything else" watched him a bit. Then he gave me crap about not having started yet and "waisting his time" so i grabbed the bearing packer. Did the bearings and was back 2 mins later. He was really annoyed he took the brunt of the work to "keep his hands clean" and didn't know the bearing packer exsisted.
I really like the stuff drawer. It should be a must have in any hobbyist's garage.
Mercedes I think still uses serviceable conical front bearings on the front axle. They have had this setup forever. What they do differently is that they have a separate hub that the outer races are pressed into and the disk and wheel bolt to that. So you don't have to deal with bearings when doing brakes. If I remember correctly they say to pack the bearings and add some extra around them and specify the weight of grease to be used in grams. The tightening spec is given by measuring the end play and that's 0.01mm-0.02mm I think.
I actually do a lot of bearings and races at my work (I do trailer safeties and repairs as part of my job), and my method for tightening down the spindle nut is to tighten just enough that it makes the drum/rotor drag, then back it off until it spins freely but doesn't have any in and out play (while still being able to line the cotter pin up through the hole)
What a stunning difference your tutorial videos are something else👌
Did I see you slacken the caliper carrier anti clockwise? I'm so glad I found this video. I'm just about to do the brakes on my 2001 VW Cabriolet.
My first MK3 brake job I wasn't aware of the bearing races. My rotors didn't have them installed and it made a pretty horrible noise after a few miles. Now I have a pipe fitting that has the correct diameter on each side to seat the races.
Now this is a video I thoroughly enjoyed.
Love brake videos but your tips aren't found anywhere else. 😎
Thanks Charles for the detailed video! My Cab has rear drums but I know you pretty much don’t need to do much with those.
So awesome. Great video as always! Keep up the great work!
Black Widows & Reusitating clips :-) Awesome Charles! That Cabrio is gonna stop faster than it goes now 👍👍
Lol that’s true
Another awesome Cabrio video, love it, thank you Charles!! 😊
12:25 "reusetate" "clipy-clips"
This guy learned his vocabulary at the same school my father did.
Also 15:13 "done comed off"
"never throw anything away ever".. Charles the hoarder ❤️
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Bearing races are in general fine to intermingle, if they are from the same manufacturer and the same batch, as they will tend to be all ground to the exact same dimensions. You can even use different batches, but for close tolerance they might be slightly different due to the settings being slightly different between runs, but changing manufacturer is iffy, but still you will get good life out of them. Only with precision bearings will you have to use matched pairs, but if you are using them in a vehicle almost no bearing is in any way going to fall in this category till you are into parts like the AC compressor, and the crank and main bearings.
Fun thing is that VW rear bearing is very commonly used on trailers, so to repack the light duty trailers it is a lot cheaper to go buy the aftermarket VW rear bearing kit instead of the trailer manufacturer kit, and use it instead. Normally the caps will not fit off the bat, so you need to either reuse the old one, or spend a bit of quality time with a hammer to make the new cap shrink to fit the diameter.
It is very surprisingly to see, almost every vw from the near the same production year are share the same mechanism platform, I should see this before I dump my little to the shop to fixing the leaking brake fluid.
Awesome video Charles. I have an 2018 Jetta And this reminds me to do my brake lines and upgrade them to the stainless steel. My son just picked up at 2010 golf definitely doing the brake upgrade on that one too. Love seeing these videos
my DV went on my mk5 gti. she going in on wednesday to get thermorstate plugs and just an overhaul check over. cant wait to have her back to full boost! :) atm she feels like a NA 2.0 :D love the content mate!
HAHA You are going to love sending it!
With serviceable bearings like that I like to put an extra 'wob' of grease (yeah scientific measurement) in the cavity between the bearings just to make sure there lots in there when the hub heats up and the grease liquifies.
14:00 El líquido de freno se ensucia porque los conductos son de acero y se oxidan, lo mejor es usar lineas de cobre.
Could you do a short (or medium) on sunroof drain cleaning? either the 4 corners or pref the mk7+ 2 corners? I can snake them, but I'm wondering about spider traps or screens at the bottom. Thanks Charles!
I see where the drain exits on the door pillar below the A frame on my Mk4, just not sure of it's routing or the preferred methodology.
Woo! New AAP outro!
Yes :D please keep up the budget MK3 cabrio vids
Is there a tutorial for changing the blinker fluid?
Did you already find a new owner? This has been a dream car but market where I live is awful. “Runs perfect just shakes over 20mph and none of the gauges work. Top is worn but only leaks in the back seat. Would drive the car anywhere.”
Notification squad!!! I love your vids bro they are super entertaining and beneficial tysm!!!
I have a very similar Golf 4 Cabrio , same in red and need to change rear brakes. Thanks for tutorial)
P. S. My left caliper is roasted and jamed, so, need to replace both calipera as well
Most new rotors are treated with protective emulsion that need to be removed before installing, that's the reason why they may squeak. Also touching pads with dirty hands is no go
notification squad, Have a nice weekend!🔥🔥🔥
Ive gone back to having my rotors resurfaced.
OEM camry rotors are 108 each vs 13.85 each to be reground at my local independent parts supplier.
Wow!!! Yea if they have meat resurface
May God bless you all who's ever reading this ❤️🙏
Don't worry, I'll never throw anything away ever. 😂
Just saw Charles on the VW Cup videos at Humble. And now this pops up. 🙂
Hahah pretty wild huh.
The only question I have is why is there a place for the key by the handbrake? Great video as always Charles.
Locks that rear console door
Thanks man. Like Phillip said to lock the console and trunk button
the rear pads look like the same as the rear on my car, even with these springs. for me it is really hard to not bend one of those ears inward on accident. it really happens very easily
I much prefer the simple, yet effective, bearings system with the cotter pin and not much torque for tightening the nut, as opposed to my Ford's 235Nm multi layered, one use only, expensive nut to hold the rear drums. And after 235Nm one wheel still has a tiny little bit of play in the bearings.
I have a 04 w8 can't find any other videos that show break repair w/ the four pads any help would be greatly appreciated
I'm surprised not by the pre installed races but the fact you have to reuse the tone ring lol
LOL ideally good to replace, but I haven't ran into issue reusing them
Wow great stuff
Yes use eco Dawn natural
Where can I find kit for R36 ? Thx Humble
That's actually a cute little car.
@Charles, can you make a video on how to flush brake fluid on newer cars? By newer, i mean cars that require a scan tool to perform it
That is a bleed procedure. Only really needed when you replace anything ABS module or north of it.
@@HumbleMechanic Sorry to hijack, but you mean that as long as the ABS module and lines to master cyl aren't cracked open, I wouldn't need to use the scantool for a brake flush/bleed on a 2009 Jetta? That would be great to hear!
@@HumbleMechanic there is spam bot in the comments trying to reach people on telegram
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Good stuff man you got 200k worth of tools and the cheapest caliper piston tool lol I like the ones that pump like a caulk gun but I still have my original one the same style you used
Lol it works just fine 😂 I have wanted to try the kind you have. Just haven’t gotten around to it
I'd just like to comment that I've had a friend who had bad brakes, I offered to change all 4 with new ceramics & rotors and do a brake flush for parts only, ~$400. Just some beers no labor. She declined and said it was too expensive.
Went and spent $600 at the dealer just to do the fronts with a flush a month later.
ಠ_ಠ
You can lead a horse to water
Girls always do this
wow 400 for rotors and pads on a VW that isnt a Friend looking for a few beers , now i am talking about a 1998 -2005 VW Cabrio or Jetta there pads and rotors full set and bearing can be had for around a 100 or so bucks , so in guessing your talking about some other Model car i just did a 1998 Cabrio front and back rotors rears with the bearings , pads and the emergency brake cables flush break fluid for a grand total of 125 and some change in parts and fluid and the parts were not even the least expensive i could get so but i also did the job at a Fathers rate which is very cheap but yeah the break shop are money pits in all fairness your friend made a costly blunder indeed .
@@CalmDownClown yeah wtf? I just looked up and good quality set from Brembo, Bosch etc is like 100 bucks total. 400 is already a rip-off even if it included labour. Unless he is talking about completely different car.
Great video Charles,
Are mk4s about the same animal for brakes ? The only difference I see from not having taken it down yet is my '03 Jetta has a 5 lug wheel.
Very close. Luckily you don’t have to replace bearings for that one
same here a 03 Jetta good question as i havent took mine apart yet either justa quick peek i did notice the emergency brake seems to be very close to the same as the earlier ones , probably has the calipers that sort of cork screw in tho very VW ish on the rears so at least No messy rear bearings to have fun with !! i did notice tho finding the best size rotors can be sketchy mine are close to the size of the dust shield so im at odds as to which is best they might be a over sized set on the rear the one it has on are like .276 if im seeing them right and def way bigger than the family Cabrios rears which at least an inch of the dust shield could be seen . probably just had someone went bigger on the Jetta
@@HumbleMechanic Well, 270k on the clock ... I'm gradually going over most everything. Many O rings have been changed so far and brakes are next. Thanx again
What if the arm on the parking brake doesn't rest on the stop even though there is no tension on cable? There is like a 1/4 inch gap. On my B6 A4 the parking brake engages fully on one caliper but on the other one it barely engages. It has an automatic parking brake adjuster so I can't adjust it so that it pulls more on one caliper.
I have a feeling that the internal mechanism on the caliper is either completely seized or just rusted enough that it causes the auto adjuster to pull less on the cable.
Informative 😎
10:00 He visto muchas veces a gente que se pone grasa en la palma de la mano para engrasar un rodamiento y siempre me pareció una burrada.
Hay quienes lo hacen porque "siempre se hizo" (justificativo estúpido)
Hay muchos brutos que lo hacen.
Ese simple dispositivo que usted usa me resulta genial y muy efectivo, sin necesidad de hacer un desperdicio y una cagada de grasa.
There's another way of packing a bearing, you chuck it in to the grease bucket!
was thinking of getting this kind of job with upgrade kit for my 2013 passat. i am in massachusetts, i want to get my own mechanic if possible that will let me hang around and work on my car too. i am wondering how much this generally costs for labor?
Probably 6 or so hours labor. Would be my guess
Aston Martin Dead Bug Society.
Would it be acceptable to use my existing rear rotors (with the old bearing races) if I'm just replacing the inner and outer wheel bearings?
I’d prefer new races too
@1:02, a hoarders motto...lol
Is that a Gears and Gasoline car in that Advance Auto wrap👀
That one is mine. :) Its the S4 from the gear drag series.
thats weird. 15 years I was a tech and I always had races pre installed. I never had to press in races
Hello Charles
Cant belive the timing of this video i swear
I have an golf 5 tdi and the rear wheel driver side it heats up alot. I already checked the caliper,pads and abs sensor no issues. So i checked the disc and its not deformed or has uneven wear,no abs or brake faults on computer check. The thing is that once im up to speed in 4-5 gear even in the straight road i can hear like a whistle noise so im not sure but i think its the wheel bearing but i dont know if that is the real cause of the heat of i should change the caliper?!
Caliper piston is really soft i can easily push it back to its place buy using little force! Any guess?
Ur caliper can still stuck at some points, or maybe check the guiding bolts from caliper
@@blechhaudi4883 thank you very much in fact i havent checked on them
What's your opinion if one does a VR6 swap keep the four lug and convert it to 5 lug?
Id keep 4 out of lazy. but if you're making big power, 5 may be better not so much for the bolt pattern but hub/axle options unless you go custom
I've never seen a rotor/drum that had separate bearings not have a race installed. It never made sense since you want to use the race that came with your new bearing.
What is the proper disposal of old brake fluid?
I dispose with my engine oil
😂😂 doing lines in the front sounds like me at work
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DO YOU KNOW WHERE ERIC THE CAR GUY MOVED TO?
Forbidden apple cider 😋
you use genuine Volkswagen bearing?
Nah aftermarket. I forget who the vender was. Heck it could very well be the same vendor
@@HumbleMechanic
what about the telegram?
or it's not actually
When I start my VW golf with AC at on position, my engine light come on. If I turn on my AC after I start my car, no engine light on.
Any idea what's going on? lol
How come you don't have a right angle impact wrench?
I do. Lol I have no idea why I never use it
@@HumbleMechanic Seems like it would solve so many of your issues with spacing.
Any updates on cheap VW that kinda works as a project car?
I am at 2,05 mark and I will say u are gonna hammer Them in 😅 cuz that will make me mad for sure 😂
Hello sir where do you live
Enjoyed the video, as usual but I'm not a fan of some of the german engineering. I hear that these days you need special equipment just to be able to push back the piston in order to remove the caliper, wow, got to give it to VW to make things difficult. I guess it keeps the mechanics happy but it makes me wanna stay away from this brand, although I drove my friends Golf III and I immediately like the way it. Thanks for all the videos.
Fab video sir, did i spot that Black Widow in your beard at the end of the video?🕷🤣
Hahhaha
When it comes to bikes and cars I never throw anything away it drives my missus nuts
YOU CANT!!!1 right after you toss it, you'll need it
Currently at 1:54 did you not replace the rear wheel bearings? 🤣
cool
wow, I always get already assembled rear disks with bearings, cheaper and way faster
I’ve never see lm those for this car.
@@HumbleMechanic I`m in UK, might be a thing on this side of the planet
I worked with a guy who complained to the manager that I didn’t put grease on the pads
Could you imagine what is going on in the head of someone doing that? LOL I Can't
@@HumbleMechanic no. Techs still question me now about why I don’t
allthough you are a competent mechanic a lot of people are not and it scares the shit out of me thinking about how many cars have botched brake jobs by people who know just enough to be dangerous... i have been fixing cars for over 40 years and you would not belive the botch jobs i have seen not just on the brakes lol.
Oh I would. Thats why I try to put out doing it right. At least they have a chance to see it Done properly.
bottom tool box drawer is a ballast box don't ya know....LOL
The chunky in the break lines is spiders 🕷
Ahhhh hahaha
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Aren't those handbrake cables a bitch because they point upwards near the very end, often causing condensation water intrusion and frozen handbrakes in cold climates?
My guess is you’ll reuse the rear wheel bearings and just repack them.
Many cases you can. But for the few extra $ I like to put new ones in
@@HumbleMechanic Wait so what was the thing you did to make peiple mad?
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Hello! Where can I contact you via email since I have a few inquiries that you can help me out with and I'd be grateful if you can let me know.
Is that a Lou Malnati’s pizza at 2:18
The best
@@HumbleMechanic The best pizza I've had is Joe & Pete's in Hickory Hills, IL. I'm a thin crust guy though. Great vid ... all my years wrenching, not many VWs so thanx for the breakdown before I have to.
Dang this video was late. 48 hours too late. Just changed my brake pads and all four rotors on my New Beetle Turbo
Hayoooooo
Thanks for making this vid honestly really helps expands my knowledge on cars!
Triggered, where's the line wrenches Charles come on now lol. Btw bearing packers are incredible, it's like a 2 sec job
Those rear wheel bearing nuts are actually to tight. The washer should be about to move BY HAND.
Followed the repair manual to the letter. :)