Wheel bearing replacement

[User16625]

Is it worth investing in wheel bearing replacement tools? my 2 road bikes use American Classic Victory 30 wheels and Mavic Aksium wheels IIRC. As far as I know the Victory 30 uses cartridge style bearings. On a road bike the only 2 jobs I cant do myself are wheel truing and wheel bearing replacement. I will leave wheel truing to a LBS as I have never really needed to do this myself.
However it is my ambition to become as self sufficient as possible. I have learned quite a lot from forums and youtube about various jobs but as far as I know, I will most likely need different tools for different wheels. Can anyone offer any advice on how to identify required parts and what tools I would likely need?
I seen one vid on youtube on replacing and maintaining wheel bearings, he made it look easy and he didnt even use any sort of jig. However I always like to have the proper tools rather than make do with what I got.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

I bought the appropriate ones of these when to replace the bearing in my Fulcrums, and with the aid of a coach bolt it was literally a 2 min job - http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/rapidracerproducts-bearing-kit/rp-prod57887

The bearing will have the correct size marked on them somewhere. Once you've got the part number I'll happily recommend these for bearings - http://www.airebearings.co.uk/index.php

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Learn how to drift a bearing in and out using a pin punch. A 6mm pin punch and a small ball peen hammer will do the trick and be applicable to all bearings your bike can throw at you.

 

[gbb]

Driftng out old bearings is usually easy, one good, well placed smack often drives them out in one go.
Driving them in requires care, only use the outer race(shell) as your impact point. Use as suggested a pin punch, rotating round the circumference with each hit...or use a socket just about the same diameter, slightly smaller if you're driving the bearing lower than flush, but still only impact the outer race. Hit the inner race and you'll probably damage the bearing, likewise the seal.
Its easy. The only time I had to have special spacers etc was with FSA BB casings where the bearing is really deep in the casing.

 

[Smurfy]

If you want the bearings to last, use the proper tools. Hope make some good tools for their hubs, and these will probably also work for other hubs with the same size bearings. I had the advantage of not having the hub built into a wheel when I did mine.

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/how-to-change-bearings-on-hope-hub.170171/#post-3410021
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/sealed-cartridge-wheel-bearings.167249/#post-3421053
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/sealed-cartridge-wheel-bearings.167249/#post-3437884

 

[mrandmrspoves]

You will probably also need the special Mavic hub adjustment tool if you haven't already got it. It is a strange plastic tool with small prongs that fit the indentations on the cone nuts. The tool may have been supplied with the bike.