Think I have a bad passenger wheel bearing....
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Think I have a bad passenger wheel bearing....
Symptoms:
Whirring noise I thought I might have been imagining (noone else could hear it) for 2 years. Finally decided it was the slotted rotors.....but now I'm thinking otherwise.
Car pulls to right
Passenger side wheel has 1/8" - 1/4" play when jacked up (no play when on ground) - driver's side wheel is totally firm.
There is play BOTH left to right and up/down (shaking wheel with hands at 3 and 9 and also 6 and 12).
Story:
The whirring noise has been happening to me through 2 tranny swaps and 4 alignments (2.5 years) - I went to Firestone last weekend to get another alignment and they said the wheel bearing was loose and the alignment was fine - but because of the wheel bearing it would pull to right until I got it fixed. <---this sound plausible?
I decided since they "forgot" to give me a print out of the alignment they were probably just giving me ****.
But tonight I went and checked for play - and yep - there it is. Play as described above - and again - other wheel is dead firm.
Checked the axle nut with a torque wrench and it's well over 150lbs (my torque wrench only goes to 150)
Wheel bearing?
Whirring noise I thought I might have been imagining (noone else could hear it) for 2 years. Finally decided it was the slotted rotors.....but now I'm thinking otherwise.
Car pulls to right
Passenger side wheel has 1/8" - 1/4" play when jacked up (no play when on ground) - driver's side wheel is totally firm.
There is play BOTH left to right and up/down (shaking wheel with hands at 3 and 9 and also 6 and 12).
Story:
The whirring noise has been happening to me through 2 tranny swaps and 4 alignments (2.5 years) - I went to Firestone last weekend to get another alignment and they said the wheel bearing was loose and the alignment was fine - but because of the wheel bearing it would pull to right until I got it fixed. <---this sound plausible?
I decided since they "forgot" to give me a print out of the alignment they were probably just giving me ****.
But tonight I went and checked for play - and yep - there it is. Play as described above - and again - other wheel is dead firm.
Checked the axle nut with a torque wrench and it's well over 150lbs (my torque wrench only goes to 150)
Wheel bearing?
#2
Buy yourself a new wheel bearing from Nissan ($55) or aftermarket ($35) and the inner and outer seal. I guarantee that is your problem. Have any garage with a hydraulic press slap the new bearing, snap rings and the seals into your existing hub and you're done. I did my pass. side yesterday and what a world of difference when I took it for a test drive. I almost forgot how ultrasmooth the maxima was. Trust me on this one because if you do not take care of this right away it can become dangerous - i.e. wheel falls off on highway. I'm not kidding! I had the same symptoms as you described above to the tee. You'll thank me later. Good luck! -bobby
#3
Your wheel will NOT fall off, but get it fixed. Definately sounds like a wheel bearing. I just had similar problems, but it turned out it was one of the things that holds the bearing on the hub had come lose and chewed the hub to hell.
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Well, it's been like this for over 2 years - so I'm not too worried about the wheel falling off. Not to mention I know that is pretty much impossible. (Not TOTALLY out of the realm of possibility - but 99.9999% unlikely).
Anyway - It's good to know that I have a solution for the pulling to the right and the whirring noise everyone thought I was imagining.
Anyway - It's good to know that I have a solution for the pulling to the right and the whirring noise everyone thought I was imagining.
#6
What did the noise sound like? I think i might have a bad drivers side one, it makes a noise as if the brakes were worn out but i just did a whole front and back rotor + pad swap like two weeks ago I also suspected my brakes were the culprit of the noise, but the wweeeeeheheheee noise is still there as I pick up speed it fades away...??
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