Cost to re-pack wheel bearings on Class A?

Since they are greased, I would say the $596 is reasonable to change them to oil bath. There will be a little bit of time spent on cleaning the grease out. I would change to oil bath - much easier and cheaper to maintain from now on.

Bill

Nina 70, I just had my front wheel bearings packed (every 30K)...as I just turned 62,000 miles. My invoice does not give the individual price for packing the front wheel bearings. The rear bearing on our coach are 'wet' so they don't need repacking, just checking for enough oil in the containers. My invoice shows labor and parts but I had a lot of maintenance done (oil and filter change, fuel filter change, Onan generator service, chassis lube, repair to coolant box, etc.)... $1,113.00 total.

Are you sure that all the wheels have 'packed' bearings vs. wet?

If all need to be packed, the price seems reasonable since all the wheels need to come off (labor intensive).

On edit, I see that you answered my question... on oil bath hubs before I posted.

MM.

Hmmm...as far as I know we don't have oil-baths? I though ours were all regular grease bearings(wonder if I'm wrong now). Still haven't decided if we're going to re-pack or switch to oil. Just wanted to check if the price I was quoted was in-range.

Boy, I could sure be wrong, but I don't think your wheel beariings require "packing" with grease. The front and rear wheels should be oil bath already? On the front they'll pop off the hub caps (the caps on the wheel hubs, not the hub caps) flush out the old oil and put in new oil. If the caps and plugs are in good condition, no parts are needed unless they use seals instead of silicone to reseal them. On the rear, the wheel bearings should get their oil from the differential. They'll drain and refill it.

Again, I could be wrong, but I wouldn't have expected any 40' DP chassis from at least 2005 or newer, to have greased wheel bearings. Let see what others say that are more familiar with this specific chassis.

And, if you're in the NW part of the States, I'd take it Pacific Diesel to have the work done. They may not be the cheapest, but good and quick service especially in their very large facility just outside of Vancouver, WA. They have several places in Oregon and Washington. They changed one of my cracked wheel caps on the front last week and changed the oil in both.

Bill