[W126 Coupe] front wheel bearing journals

[chet weeks]

I am replacing the fronts on my 560 -- 86 ---W126. A new journal for the inner bearings came with the new parts. This leads me to suspect that I should be replacing the journals??? The existing journals look ok and with limitted attempts I was not able to remove them. Very concerned about messing around in there as if I mess up the hub im eating a chit samwich. Is there a good way to remove the jounrnals without a special MB tool???Should they be replaced???

FYI-- My front end noise apparently was the result of a bad outer bearing on the drivers side ---

Any help appreciated. 

Chet Weeks
86 560 SEL 197K on the clock. 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/mbcoupes/attachments/20060822/04ac1dc7/attachment.html