You can purchase new or used bearing caps, but there is machine work required. If you are talking about main bearing caps, the block will need to be line bored with the new cap in place. If you're talking about a connecting rod bearing cap, the rod will need to be resized with the new bearing cap in place.
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Changing a wheel bearing is almost exactly the same process for every vehicle.There are detailed instructions to do this answered in another question:How_do_you_change_a_wheel_bearing
I had the same problem and apparently it's 75 dollars to replace...Kind of steep.
Just go to your Local DMV, the same place you got the learners permit. They will replace it or give you another.
Many carrier bearing assemblies must be pressed off and on the shaft. Sometimes it's best to take the entire driveshaft off the vehicle and have a driveline specialist shop replace all of the u-joints and the carrier bearing at the same time. For that matter, they don't usually charge much to remove and replace the driveshaft so it's often not worth the trouble to do it yourself.
the same way you would replace any hub assembly, take the wheel off, take off any bolts that connect the hub to the driveshaft and then replace it
They usually replace the lost blood at the same time.
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If you have 4wd the bearing is pressed onto to hub and can't be change. The unit is sold as a whole as a bearing hub. The cheapest I have found it was $171 at autozone. same is true for the 1500 2wd, only AutoZone doesn't have it listed! I had to get mine from the dealer. However, the dealer gave me a 8-lug hub instead of a 5-lug, but it had the same bearing.
Both are the same term for the same part.
NO! They have to be installed a certain way. If you have it on wrong it will actually be quite obvious. Keep in mind the bearing notch has to prevent the bearing from spinning in the same direction as the body of the connecting rod does. Install the cap so the bearing notch faces the same direction of rotation as the rod body does. The sides of the connecting rod are thrust surfaces as well. Install the cap backwards, and they most likely won't match up either.
In axial bearing the most power force in the same direction as the axis of the shaft In radial bearing no.