When wheel bearings go bad

[jebiga41]

was meant to put this up ages ago but i suppoe better late than never. On one of my recent trips when driving down the road at approx 90km/hr i heard a sudden noise which sounded like a blowout and pulled over nothing was particularly obvious but when i tried to drive a very loud rumbling and vibration started and then what sounded like metal beaten eaten and spat out followed after quite a while of panicking thinking it was the gearbox or possibly a CV joint that had gone it emerged that it was actually a rear wheel bearing this one in fact










from the photos you can see the effect of water damage (possibily driving through a certain part of the Seine)
compared to another old bearing which has just suffered normal wear

[silverbullet]

Lovely

[max and caddy]

You might want to re pack that...looks like some wear may of taken place.


Mine worry me..this hasn't helped much!

[Aidan]

and a speedisleeve of the correct size for the inner seal surface, plus machining cost me over £65
but aided by toomanytoys the job was good