Patent ID: 6935026

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a wheel bearing assembly for motor vehicles involving the following method steps: a) fitting a bearing having an outer ring into a bearing casing; b) providing a broaching tool having a plurality of protrusions for abutment on a front face of the bearing; c) displacing said bearing in an axial direction with the protrusions of the broaching tool until the outer ring abuts on a supporting surface of the bearing casing; d) fixing the outer ring in said bearing casing axially and non-rotationally by machine-shaping the bearing casing causing localized plastic deformation and forming a plurality of localized, spaced-apart stop protrusions on an inner circumference of said bearing casing, the stop protrusions cooperating with the supporting surface to fixate the outer ring in the axial direction within the bearing casing, wherein e) machine-shaping is carried out during the axial displacement of the bearing and is completed when the outer ring of the bearing abuts on the supporting surface.