How to Adjust Hub Bearings on Mercedes / Mercedes Wheel Bearing Adjustment

[grantdubridge]

I just did this on my Sprinter last night. It suddenly started making noise and even some vibration. I took out the front bearing and looked inside to see it was quite dry on the inner bearing. I used a needle on my grease gun and applied grease to the inner bearing, put the outer bearing in place, and tightened the "nut". Fixed the problem nicely.
I may put in new bearings soon though. I have 398, 000 miles on my van.

[NiaTech]

This video saved me a lot of money as i was planning to get new bearings and tools to do the job. Thanks

[Mike]

Hey thanks for this! I had some play in my front bearing and some wear on the tire that showed me the problem. I followed this and NO PLAY whatsoever in the hub. GREAT VIDEO!

[stevewilliams]

I’m gonna try this on this E350 job I have from a neighbor of mine before replacing the bearing completely I hope it works ty for the video

[glasser]

great job, thank you sir 👏
Having bearings play guarantees bad brakes 😂

[Mike-qqgp]

Is it possible at high speed to have vibrations in the car and steering wheel because of this? Thank you.

[kyleg]

I used this on my Mercedes sprinter van. Had some play in the bearings.

[zumzero]

Awesome! I’m going to try this on my w211. Also I gotta make sure to give it 3 uggah duggahs

[wamgmercedes]

That's quite a right hook you got there.

[axxiom]

What are the torque specifications for that adjustment?

[jakob.]

Thank you! Will try this on my W211 have exactly same symptons

[cezarkrs]

Hi, I discovered that isn't a good idea to tight the nut any more.
I did that a year ago but the bearings started to wear and burn due to lack of grease.
The best thing to do is to pull the small bearing out clean the old grease and feed the inner bearing with grease as well.
When you put them back together, the nut will be in the same position from factory and the wheel will have no more play.
By the way for this type of bearings a little play should be.
That big play is caused by the lack of grease in bearings.

[samspace]

Better idea to repack it I would think, then adjust the play out

[kudynski]

Nice job! Do you know if this is the same procedure one the R129?

[MrMkindy]

So you don't bother checking with a dial gauge then!

[Sclassmercedes]

So your adjusting the wheel bearing by the pinch bolt ? What kind of Mercedes is this ? Most of the Benz has this pinch bolt and a giant nut .

[zr]

Do you have to do this for the rear aswell?

[jordantovar]

Would this work for a Mercedes-Benz s550 2007 rear wheel drive?.

[armandoochoa]

People if the bearing got loose please spend the time to remove them inspect the bearing and race repack the bearing with new grease and do it right because if you don’t and they will get much worse you will be bringing to a shop and spending a lot more for a shop to do it the correct way when the wheel bearing fails thank you

[Svanidze]

Hello I have same problem. Where are you from ?