E30 Rear Wheel Bearings
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Two words, It Sucks....
Search it online and find the little write up on how to make the tool for it. Will help a ton.
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I had one of mine done this past April. As stated above, it sucks. Took about three hours, and that was with someone who knew what they were doing. Pretty much have to take the entire rear axle apart and pound out the old one, then carefully press in the new one. Also, finding the one correct socket to remove the main hub nut is a pain in the ass. Many of the correct sized sockets are so thick that even though they'll engage the nut, they won't fit in the hole that the nut is in. Be prepared to do some searching through your tools or someone else's, or spend a bunch of money on sockets you don't need to get the single one that you do.
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Earldude, once the axle is removed, smash the bearing out from the backside with a deadblow hammer and a socket or something that fits the bearing well through the back side of the hub.
Once its out, clean up the bore slightly with a wire wheel in the drill, wipe it clean, then apply a thin coat of anti-seize in the bore to help it slide in and to make the next bearing removal easier (if that ever happens)
Do not smash this one in with a dead blow, build the dang tool out of threaded rod and random stuff.
Just do it.
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Just do it.
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