Hub Kit from AutoZone.

[SASHO91]

Has anyone recently bought this kit (520000)? I'm just curious if the kit is still available and has the same contents, Hub/bearing etc...
AZ does list it and it's listed as the same price, but I just want to confirm that it is the same kit. You know how part numbers change and what-not.

TIA.

 

[Eric VerValin]

? What year is yours? I bought the kit for a 94-95 knuckle.... 1 bearing was bad out of the box. And check the length of the studs. One kit I got had really short ones. Had to pound em out and replace them with longer ones because the store didn't have another one. They gave me the studs for free tho... and I replaced em in the store with their vise..

 

[projectSHO89]

That's a Timkin/BCA part number, not an AutoZone-exclusive part number.

Nothing has changed, especially a legacy part number.

Steve

 

[SASHO91]

Knuckles are 94/95.

 

[frosho]

In that case I think you want p/n 520100. I have one of these kits on my car and haven't had any problems (yet). *Knocks on wood*

 

[Eric VerValin]

Umm... yea isn't that what I posted? lol frosho.. pass it to the left man..

 

[frosho]

My bad, I clicked on the new posts button and it brought me to #4 for some reason. Didn't even see yours.

 

[Eric VerValin]

LoL I've done it many times typing out something, then hit post, and another one or two pop up above mine.. Happend yesterday actually..

 

[whitekysho]

I just bought the timken and the studs are too short.

 

[Eric VerValin]

You can press em out with a good sized impact socket BEHIND the stud. Put the socket on one end of the vise, and the end of the stud on the other. When you put em back in.. put some washers on the stud, and pull it thru with your impact....

Or.. ask if they have others.. I bought 2 at the same time.. one was long and another was short. Ask if they have another maybe... I know I had to go to another store to find a longer one.... funny that bearing was junk... so I ended up getting the one I took back, then swapping out the studs. I was kinda pissy after all the running around, and I actually broke their vise... Had to finish at home..


And... IIRC the "shorter" studs are only missing 1 thread, the rest of the stud is just a guide, and they would probally work out ok. Put the hub against your wheel once, and you'll see whats "short".

 

[whitekysho]

It reaches all the threads on the wheel lock, but I forgot about the guide on the old ones.

 

[fastshos]

stud length

By the National Fed Mogul from lee auto parts $74 a piece(bearing &hub) The thread length is 1.5" instead of 1.25" that the timkin hubs are.
I had all ready installed my hubs and went to put tires on and come to find out studs are to short-screw timken and autozone, I had to pound out studs with sludgehammer and then reinstall studs, not a big deal to them if they don't have to do any of the work.

 

[SASHO91]

got a PN?

 

[Storm-Chaser]

Umm... yea isn't that what I posted? lol frosho..

pass it to the left man..

:laugh_ti:

 

[Storm-Chaser]

Take it back to AutoZone and complain/exchange/return the kit. There is absolutely no reason anyone should have to "fix" a new hub kit because the wheel studs are too short. This has been an on-going problem with Timken (as well as the quality of some of their other bearings), and until AutoZone gets enough returns to complain to Timken in-turn, nothing is going to change.

Also, whenever you have a "fit" problem with any item, ask the store manager to submit a product discrepancy report to corporate (I can't remember if that's the exact terminology, but they'll get the idea). This also gets looked-at by the Harvard pin-head bean-counter types that simply look at margin numbers, and at some point they will initiate the complaint process with their supplier.

I just bought the timken and the studs are too short.