You know I would have sworn you were wrong but I just checked my email invoice and sure enough the front WAS a hub assembly. Timken all around.

Memory is going to crap I guess.

 

You've been here almost as long as I have I think, giving all this tech advice you're bound to get things crossed up, lol. All good. I've replaced the front suspension on this car a few times now, so I'm intimately familiar with it.

 

Status update - I procured a pair of Timken front hubs for $125 + tax, free shipping. I have not received them as yet (3/23, Tuesday), but they are expected Wednesday or Thursday. I have received the rotors and pads.

So yesterday I jacked up the RF, just to pull the wheel and caliper, to see how things would go (easy or difficult with lots of vulgarity) and get things ready. Everything came off fairly easily (a big breaker bar sure helps), and I loosened the 4 bolts of the hub. Sure helps to have the right tools.

So tonight, I'm going to repeat this on the LF just to have it ready. This car is not in service just yet so it's no problem to have it sit apart. This is not a difficult job. There are a few tricks that make it easier, and having large metric sockets and long wrenches makes things way mo' bettuh.

The guy I let do my repairs that I don't want to do, or can't do, wanted $195 in labor to replace both rotors, pads, and hubs. Not exorbitant, but I like $195, I'd like to keep it with me.

So if I were going to give advice, I'd say get a breaker bar (or a big ole torque wrench is what I use), 21 mm socket for the lugs, 27 mm socket for the caliper bolts (from memory), and I think the hub bolts were 17 mm. And, turn the wheel out (right for right wheel) to get to the caliper and hub bolts. I had all this stuff already.

 

Good tip for if you don't have access to a breaker bar, just hammer on the end of your ratchet with a large crescent wrench or whatever else is available. Those bolts come off fairly easy with a little impact action.