I am right in the middle of TRYING to repack my front bearing, and I am having a byach of a time getting the three philips head screws out of the retaining ring. I managed to get ONE out, but the other five (two on driver side and all three on passenger side) are IMPOSSIBLE.

I have already started to strip the heads out of them. I went and got a bolt extractor kit, but it just drilled the head off of one of the screws and left the rest of it in the hub. I've destroyed another one trying to use a flat head screw driver to whack it around. No luck! I've used generous amounts of penetrating lube to no avail.

How, in the name of all that's holy, did any of you get these frakin' little screws out?

Looks like I'm going to have to call a mechanic to see if they can extract the screws for me, so it looks like I'll be taking off of work on Monday.

That was a partial vent, but if anyone has any suggestions lets hear them.

Mark