GM Service Manual Online
For 1990-2009 cars only
Makes 🢒 GMC_Truck 🢒 2001 🢒 Sonoma Pickup - 4WD 🢒 General Information 🢒 Vibration Diagnosis and Correction 🢒 Center Bearing Replacement

Removal Procedure
  1. Raise the vehicle. Refer to Lifting and Jacking the Vehicle in General Information.
  2. Remove the propeller shaft. Refer to Two-Piece Propeller Shaft Replacement .

    3. Object Number: 348612 Size: SH
  3. Remove the center bearing using the following steps:
    4. 3.1. Stand the propeller shaft (2) on end in the press (1) with the center bearing (3) supported by the press bars (4).
    3.2. Press the propeller shaft (2) down and off the center bearing (3).

Installation Procedure

    Object Number: 348612 Size: SH
  1. Install the center bearing (3) onto the propeller shaft (2) by pressing the center bearing onto the shaft using a press (1).

    2. Ensure that the center bearing is fully seated on the propeller shaft.

  2. Install the propeller shaft. Refer to Two-Piece Propeller Shaft Replacement .
  3. Lower the vehicle.