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The rear wheel bearing replacement turned into a bigger task than i thought. Because of the coronavirus all parts shops are closed by the government and we can only get out of your home's between 6 and 16 o'clock so i can't buy me a replacement part. So i spent half a day making a mess going thru my spare parts to find the rear kniles of my brothers old 605, and finally i found both rear hubs, so i had to unbolt the 41mm central nut on my bench vise with a 3 m chitter bar and knock the bearing off the sub shaft. I know that peugeot switched there ABS sensors form hall effect to magnetic ring but was hoping they kept the same diameter so i can change them. No typical french what make it easy when you can complicate it. I wasn't to keen of using this bearing because the car that it come of it had 1,6 million km but it was an original SKF made in france bearing. So did a bit more measuring and i needed to make a 1mm thick ring to fill in the gap so i chucked the bearing in my lathe, indicated on the flange where the ring sits on then install the old steel sensor used a bit of permanent loctite and machined off the tooth and cut it down to the dimensions of the 607 hub/bearing. Then i apply some more permanent loctite and installed the magnetic ring. I apply some new grease inside the bearing and used a bolt to keep it from coming apart in the lathe, and finally i installed it on the car. Then i drove the 607 out of the big garage after two months and give it a wash i'm not sure how good its size shows in the pictures but is close to 2m longer than the little niva and 12sm then the 605.
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