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2003 Tacoma maintenance says repack wheel bearings every 30k miles or 24 months. What do you all think about this? Sounds too frequent to me. Soon I will have 2 years on her and now I have 12,100 miles. I tow nothing and I load the bed about 3 times a year and I think the heaviest thing was 200 lbs. I plan to own this truck until I die (hopefully a long time) Paul > 2003 Tacoma maintenance says repack wheel bearings every 30k miles or 24 > months. What do you all think about this? Sounds too frequent to me. Soon I [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Paul I just had the wheel bearings on my 85 repacked after 30,000 miles which was more than 3 years, the mechanic said "it needed it". 30,000 is not too frequent! Maybe is should be 30,000 with no time limit. I think that doing it at the 2 year mark regardless of mileage may be a waste of time. I will have less then 15,000 miles when I reach 2 years. Paul >> 2003 Tacoma maintenance says repack wheel bearings every 30k miles or 24 >> months. What do you all think about this? Sounds too frequent to me. Soon [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > was more than 3 years, the mechanic said "it needed it". 30,000 is not > too frequent! repacking depends a lot on where you drive it. If you do lots of off-road in deep water, then you need to re-grease all drive train parts as soon as you get home and wheel bearings should be every fall after hunting season and your done with your "boat"-truck.. > Maybe is should be 30,000 with no time limit. I think that doing it at the 2 > year mark regardless of mileage may be a waste of time. I will have less [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > was more than 3 years, the mechanic said "it needed it". 30,000 is not > > too frequent! I tow nothing, hall very little and am 100% city-highway. So, I think that it should be able to go well beyond 30k, but maybe not. And doing it after 2 years regardless of mileage is just ridiculous. P > repacking depends a lot on where you drive it. If you do lots of off-road > in [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >> > was more than 3 years, the mechanic said "it needed it". 30,000 is not >> > too frequent! my personal truck maintenance log sheet calls for a bearing repack every 80,000 miles, regardless of number of years (typically every 5 years). Never had any problems. If the only big danger of not doing it is having a noisy bearing that needs to be replaced, seems that makes up for the big pain in the rear of having to do it every 2 years. Paul If you don't go off road w/it then they should be fine. After repacking several times at 30K miles and realizing it was a waste of time, I only repack them when I'm replacing the brakes as you should pull the rotors off to replace/refinish them anyway. Slik > I tow nothing, hall very little and am 100% city-highway. So, I think that > it should be able to go well beyond 30k, but maybe not. And doing it after 2 [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > >> > was more than 3 years, the mechanic said "it needed it". 30,000 is not > >> > too frequent! when did they come out with any recommendation to repack wheel bearings? My 1998 has non-serviceable bearings. I don't know. you are lucky, I think. My factory schedule says to lubricate them every 2 years or 30k miles. Just for clarification I asked and was told that "lubricate " does mean to clean and re-pack. p > when did they come out with any recommendation to repack wheel bearings? > My 1998 has non-serviceable bearings. |
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