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Posted by Used to be vvack0matic (more from Used to be vvack0matic) on Wed, 4 May 2016 05:33:53
In Reply to: Wheel bearing problem?, BrianH, Tue, 3 May 2016 19:18:34
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That's it, gosh you have a few months before you really need to worry about it. When your driving 70mph and your able to bounce a dime an inch off the dash board that's when it's needed to be done. Live a little and drive that wheel bearing into the ground.
Although there is something that can happen and needs to be checked when replacing them.
The wheel bearing has a split inner race (where the inside bearing meets the wheel hub) and I had one of the inner races freeze from melting all the guts toghther from driving so long on a bad wheel bearing. What will happen is once one side of the inner race freezes it will be the hub that takes the damage melting the hub just a bit leaving a well defined groove in it. Mounting a new bearing to the damaged hub will mimic a bad wheel bearing.
The pic is what the damaged hub looks like. Me in my younger years and ignorant to the problem I had mounted 2 new wheel bearings to this hub thinking the new bearings were bad.
I was able to bounce a quarter 3 inches off the dash before I changed the initial bad bearing so swapping it out when a dime can be bounced an inch should be long before any damage is done to the hub. Just something to keep in mind while changing it. Don't mount a new bearing to the hub if it looks like this.
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