How To Tell If My Wheel Bearings Have Gone... Bit Scared =/

[205johnnyxsi 0]

Hello Just Brought a xs yesterday to start when i got home it wouldnt start tightened up the alternator ok now....... now the worse things is i been driveing it today and it started sweeking like a buggah (its my passengers rear wheel)

 

i think it is my bearings he gave me a set of break shoes for the rear to fit beacuse he said there crap.... but now the sweeking has turned into a sort of sweeking then a knocking...

 

I jacked the xs up about half an hour ago to check and there seams to be alot of play at the top... apply the hand break and there is no play??? spin the wheel and starts to sweek then knocks like there is something inside the drum

 

back please let me beacuse i sold my corsa which i had for 5 days beaucse they are rubbish... and thought i would trust French Again but not Looking good at the Minute

 

Hope i have Explain Enough For Anyone To Give me Advice

[205johnnyxsi 0]

Also so what sort of price is it going to cost me ill be doing the labour myself

[welshpug 1,657]

if its just the bearing about £15.

 

if its been like it for a while it may have damaged the brake shoes and drums, worst case scenario would be about £65 on top of the price of the wheel bearing (as you should always replace brake friction parts in axle sets)

 

you will need a press to do the bearing, removing it by hammer may well work but its not good practice to fit new ones this way as you'll rarely get them square, meaning they will wear out quite quickly

Edited June 14, 2008 by welshpug

[205johnnyxsi 0]

thanks mate fitted them yesterday all good and that proper job and now today the buggers went again some thing is not right surely ?

[Doc-Evil 0]

How did you fit them - i stick 'em in a food bag and pop em in the freezer overnight to shrink 'em enought that they drop in the first little bit then carefully tap them in the remaining distance without touching the centre (ever) using a socket that'll sit on the outer race and not touch the plastic dirt/grease seal. You can still 'steer' the bearing well enough when it twists to get it in nice and easy.

 

I've had plenty of noise from drums over the years but the closet i can think to a 'bang' was when the top spring was fitted the wrong way round (easier to fit but wrong - the more awkward the spring is to fit the more likely its correct) making it stick out enough that the reinforcing webs for the hub (on the inside of the drum) would stike the coils of the spring and wear it away.