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!
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. 👍
improper packing of grease into bearings, insufficient grease in disc/bearing cavity. improper preloading too. most likely will lead to premature failure. great job!!!!!
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!
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.
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
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. 😱
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
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
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??
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.
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!
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
+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.
+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!
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.
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.
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 RU-vid, 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.
+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
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 😂😂
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.
