I've needed to do 5 wheel bearings all together in 2 trucks. Each time I just brought the axle to a shop that had the proper tube jig. Aside from the parts, retainer, c-ring, bearing, and inner and outer seals, labor was about $40. All together about $100. Where you need to be careful is on re-assembly. It's easy to whack the inner seal when inserting the axle. I'd avoid the shade tree method myself. The retainer ring is on super tight it seems. The first shop that did one for me didn't have a tube jig. He used a series of parallel blocks and bent my axle. I could see the possibility of that happening if you were to try to pound it out yourself using the shade tree method. Otherwise, putting it back together is easy.