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How to Install a Center Carrier Support Bearing

Drive shafts are used on all cars to connect the rear differential to the engines transmission. If you have a large vehicle like an SUV or a van, your vehicle will have a center bearing. This is also known as a carrier bearing. This bearing is used to support the drive shaft on the car. You dont have to be a car mechanic to replace your bearing. You can do it yourself with little hassle and minimal knowledge of the replacement.

Instructions

1

Jack up your vehicle so you have access to the bottom of the car. Put jack stands under the frame to support vehicle so it is not being support solely by the jack.

2

Use a piece of tape to mark where the transmission and the drive shaft are. The drive shaft is a splined shaft on the bottom of your vehicle. Mark where the universal joint connects to the rear axle differential.

3

Remove the bolt holding the drive shaft to the car. Remove the drive shaft center bearing from the frame with a socket wrench.

4

Use your wrench to remove the bolts holding the universal joint bearing to the yoke. This is coming out of the cars rear axle differential. Secure the caps at the bottom of the car with a piece of duct tape so they do not fall out.

5

Pull the drive shaft out of the cars transmission. Use a socket wrench to remove the bolts that are securing the universal joint bearing to the cars yoke coming out of the vehicles rear axle differential.

6

Use your wrench to remove the bolts from the drive shaft plate. Pull the rear plate off of the drive shaft. Secure the front plate to the drive shaft with a vise. Use your wrench to remove the nut from the center of the drive shaft.

7

Use a hammer to remove the old bearing from the drive shaft. Use a brass-ended punch so you do not scratch the shaft. Put a thin layer of car grease into the bearing shaft. Push your new bearing into the drive shaft and then hammer the bearing into place.

8

Reassemble your cars drive shaft in the reverse order that you took it apart.

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