Help with rear wheel bearing-2005

[Rockosmith]

On my 05 LE with 108K miles I need to replace the driver side rear wheel bearing. It's making a horrendous sound while driving and a loud grinding noise while jacked up and spinning the tire at low speeds. I know they are sold as hub assemblies and mine is not ABS. How hard is it to replace? Can I get away with aftermarket parts? I'd like to do it myself as money is tight. Thanks.

[Raddman04]

I replaced mine, same side rear on my 04, I didn't notice the sound and it probably was bad for a couple years until a car repair friend was sitting in my back seat and told me my bearing was bad! It looked like it was an easy replacement until I found the hub was frozen and took me a couple hours to get it off! I think I paid about $65 for the hub at a local auto parts store, you probably might get a better price on line...If you have to take your drum brake shoes apart, remember or take a picture of how they came off cause sometime you can't find where that extra part/spring goes..Just a tip, good luck

[Rockosmith]

When you say frozen, what parts were actually stuck together? I have seen a video on an older corolloa that did not require any brake parts removed other than the drum. Then it was 3 or 4 bolts only as the bearings are part of the assembly. Am I wrong?

[Raddman04]

This is where it was frozen on and there wasn't much space back there to get something in to try to wedge it loose. We had to remove/move a few things to get a better angle but I don't remember what, it's been almost 4 years since I did it! I have a Toyota repair book with a blow up of the area, I'll try to put in on here tonight! If it wasn't for being frozen on it would have been a simple job!

[Rockosmith]

Ahh. Got it. I will spray some PB Blaster back there. I also assume that becuase there is no abs sensor plug on mine-looks just like the picture-that I don't have/need the rear abs assembly($40 more than non-abs assembly).

[Raddman04]

$59 and free shipping...1A Auto has it for $67 free shipping It looks like non ABS is cheaper Good luck!

http://www.am-autoparts.com/Toyota/C...14/212358.html

I hope PB blaster will get all the way down into that flange, but yours might not be frozen like mine was!

[Rockosmith]

Thanks for all the help. Got the part from Amazon for $67 no tax free shipping for the Beck Arnley 051-6159. It's over $100 everywhere else. Had the hardest time getting the drum off. I guess that brake was adjusted too much and the shoes were too close to the drum-which becuase of wear had a lip at the outer edge and prevented the drum from slipping off. Using the two bolt method I ended up cracking the drum at the bolt locations! Once the drum was off it only took 5 minutes to swap out the bearing carrier. Put a new drum on and good to go.

I need to adjust that side still as the shoes drag a bit on the drum. How do you release the lever in order to turn the star wheel and which direction would lessen the brakes? Thanks.