So I know you can do it. But I have heard that you shouldn't remove the trailing arm. Anyone know why? Can anyone tell me or show me the steps to replace rear wheel bearings on my brat.

this Workshop manual compilation of  A gregorys and various FSMs has all the details from page 142 of the pdf onward called page 200 of the document

http://www.ftp.kritical-it.com/Subaru%20Brumby,%20Leone,%20L-series%20Workshop%20Manual.pdf

 

Enjoy the read

 

TOONGA

Where did you hear not to remove the trailing arm? I guess you could do that, but you'd have to get a screw press for doing bearings in place. Kind of a pain. Here's how I did it back when I had minimal tools for working on cars and didn't know how to do much more than change a spark plug.

 

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/topic/108429-pictorial-wheel-bearing-guide-4wd-rear/

 

The three bolts holding the outer trailing arm thingy on set the camber and the toe, so maybe that's why someone was afraid of taking it apart. You can get it back with a tape measure pretty easily.

Edited February 5, 201610 yr by 987687

Before you loosen those 3 bolts, clean the area and spray some paint on.

Match the paint line back up on assembly.