How To: Vanagon Front Wheel Bearing Maintenance 

Nathan thank you for your maintenance, repair and improvement videos. Easy to follow you and understand.

Well done. I continue to learn a lot about the Vanagon. Your video and instruction quality are tier 1!

Thank you - watching these “tutorials” give me the confidence to tackle these jobs myself - very thorough explanation 👍🏼

Thank you for all your videos! I just picked up an 85 Westy and you're my best friend right now. Incredible knowledge and presentation!

New rotors and bearings, pads and one caliper last week. The nuts were ordered from our local Mercedes dealer and its always a challenge to order parts from these folks. The parts guy says they can't look up just the number that they need the vin not the model, lol. Any way he was able to order them and they arrived during the job but they do not have bolts with them. He said that is a separate part number, omg! Got the M6 x 25 socket bolts from Lowes. Thank you for the Video it helped me process it in a clear step by step fashion. It couldn't have gone better with my buddy who knows how to do it and me keep saying Nate did this next. We celebrated going to our favorite Mexican restaurant for Taco Tuesday.

Здравствуй друг! Я много лет назад поставил такие гайки от Мерседес на передние колёса. Очень удобно, хорошо регулировать затяжку подшипников и гайка легко фиксируется от проворота. Мне понравился твой инструмент для извлечения сальников. Я не владею английским, но такие работы я делал много раз на своей машине, всё понятно без слов. Привет с Украины! 🤝🇺🇦

Nice one Nate 👍. Very jealous of your workshop!

Thanks a lot, I did mine a few days ago and your video confirmed that I did it the proper way. keep recording ! and have fun with the vanagon.

Excellent tutorial as usual Nate. Appreciate it.

Great video, thanks. RU-vid really is the font of all wisdom these days.

Great explanation of the process. Thank you!

Preping to do my first berring job, video is VERY helpful, thank you so much...

I think a key word you use is preventative. These vans are collectors and need attention. People drive them with little to no maintenance and then call them unreliable when they break down. Give the van love and it will love you back. :)

Brilliant video - I'll do this to my bearings at some point. Still remember how you saved my gearbox with your oil-replaicing video; without it I wouldn't have checked and seen that it was only a third full. Clicked Like as usual. Dave

Thanks for this vid!

Excellent video!!!!

like the adjustment nut system.. thanks

Heads-up! I purchased the wheel nuts from Mercedes with the part number suggested. The screw is separate so had to go back. They nut was so tight that I was afraid to cross thread it so I did not install them. I had to purchase new ones from a local supplier. Mercedes would not take them back.

Hi Nathan, As usual very happy with your video, thank you again. Do you still recommend Mercedes axle nut mounting ? I have seen in other video, that you got some issue to remove them or re-use them

Great instructional video. Your grease managemnt skills are impresssive. Without the obvious knocking or grinding noise how often do you reccommend greasing the bearings. Perhaps it would be every 20k miles?? Anyway great video.

Great video. Are there specific bolts for the axle nuts? Mine came without.

Thank you for the video!! I will need to implement the Mercedes spindle nut! I have repaired the wheel bearing many times before but for some reason after each repair, I hear the sound of a bad wheel bearing whine even after I install new wheel bearings. Any thoughts on what this could be? I have replaced the the spindle with other used units but this problem still persists. It's quite unsettling for long road trips! I'd love your input! Thank you again and keep up the great work!

Excellent video TYSM. I need some help finding the bolt . Hoping you can share source pls TIA.

Hi Nate, I have a 82 vanogan/ might want to change the front brakes out. Do you have link or reference to yours? Thx David

Excellent video 👍 PS: The link to the nut is not working?

I used your link to order the Mercedes spindle nuts. Europarts says these nuts won't fit my 1988 Westy. I also have the Smallcar brake kit.

You must un-peen (also known as un-staking) the nut or risk DESTROYING THE THREADS on the spindle. Use a small chisel or flathead and hammer in that groove the pop the "peen" out of the nut. Don't ask me how I know this, and don't look at my driver's side spindle.