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why does every wheel bearing, and seal i pick up from the auto parts store not fit
i have a 95 xlt fullsize Bronco! am i missing something here!!

Which wheel bearings? Front? Rear? Inner or outer?

philofab wrote:Which wheel bearings? Front? Rear? Inner or outer?

All front... inner, outer, and seal. the seals dont fit in the hubs for the inner. And the inner and outer bearings dont fit on the spindals.

Pictures of your knuckles/spindles please.

Inner wheel seal that i pulled off the hub is on the left. all the wheel seal's that the auto parts stores keep pulling for a 1995 Bronco are on the right..




I know im not Crazy! heres the manufacturing year!

I was just doing some interweb searching. and i think the parts on my Bronco are in the 1996 category.

ok so i pulled the part numbers off my wheel bearings. they are Timken lm603049 inner and Timken lm501349 outer. the internet store that i looked them up on says they are not for a ford Bronco WTF!! and the Autozone down the road keeps giving me the wrong shit!

Andy I ran into a similiar problem not with the bearings themselves but the seals. I have 96 seals and 95 bearings I wil go check my boxes for part numbers for you
Okay I have Timken Set 45 LM501349-LM50130 200604 22, Set 37 LM603049-LM603011 200609 22 for bearings and the seal is also Timken 4250...For the bearings I gave you all the numbers on the box in order I am not exactly sure which is the actual part number hope it helps.

You have 96 spindles and knuckles.

Autozone is a crappy parts store.

philofab wrote:Autozone is a crappy parts store.

I concur. NAPA or the dealer are usually about the same price and the parts are much better.

I had some issues with replacing the bearings on my '96 as well. It was strange.

About the only thing I get from autozone is Timken bearings