Rear Wheel bearing question

[97teebs]

so i'm trying to replace my rear wheel bearing. the issue that i'm having is the new bearing seems to have alot of play in it. its hard to explain but i'll do my best. so the bearing of course is 2 sets of bearings kinda like an inner and outter, well what i'm seeing is that if you pull outward on the center of the bearing it will actually pull out a little bit. seems to me that it shouldn't move at all if it was just 1 new bearing that did that i'd assume its just faulty but i'm on bearing number 5 that one side pulls out but not the other and they aren't all the same "brand" either. so in these pictures look at the center of the bearing where there is a "seam" in one pic its almost touching but in the other pic there is a much larger gap. can anyone tell me if thats normal?

 

[3_97_Sports]

I will be home in a few hours and I will check what my timken i got last week looks like

 

[97teebs]

I will be home in a few hours and I will check what my timken i got last week looks like

K I would appreciate that. I couldn't find a timkin one anywhere

 

[3_97_Sports]

Rockauto has them

 

[Zep5.0]

so i'm trying to replace my rear wheel bearing. the issue that i'm having is the new bearing seems to have alot of play in it. its hard to explain but i'll do my best. so the bearing of course is 2 sets of bearings kinda like an inner and outter, well what i'm seeing is that if you pull outward on the center of the bearing it will actually pull out a little bit. seems to me that it shouldn't move at all if it was just 1 new bearing that did that i'd assume its just faulty but i'm on bearing number 5 that one side pulls out but not the other and they aren't all the same "brand" either. so in these pictures look at the center of the bearing where there is a "seam" in one pic its almost touching but in the other pic there is a much larger gap. can anyone tell me if thats normal?

Not normal from my experience. I wouldn't use it

 

[3_97_Sports]

It pulls in and out some.
I believe grog6 says that you can grease them, so they must pull apart further?
I did not try any harder than to spread them that far,which is not a hard pull or anything.

 

[Grog6]

That is totally normal; installed, there's the axle and nut with 250 ft lbs of torque on it holding the gap together. make sure there's grease in there; it should be full. one side is tighter on the axle,it goes to the outside. Male sure you get that right before you press the bearing into the hub. Wrong lasts about 10k miles.

 

[97teebs]

Thanks yall and if I did it wrong then I've already got 2 spares... 2 tbirds so I wanted a few for the just in case

 

[Grog6]

I keep a rebuilt set of rear knuckles just in case. And lca's,lol.