Mine are shot so heres a video so that everybody can see what happens when they go bad.....

http://media.putfile.com/Wheel-Bearing-53

 

I guess mine are bad..

 

nice video, sticky that ****

 

Why does it squeek? hmmm

 

oh wow i have to try this, nice vid

 

did you just hump your wheel?

 

i think i need a smoke!!

good info.

 

i'll go for one too.

 

So that's how you check them.

 

I just had mine replaced on Friday..... you could hear me coming about a mile away. I thought at first it was a warped rotor bc it was a metallic grinding sound proportional to the rotation of the wheel but apparently that was not the case. Mine could not be shaken like yours was however I have heard thats a good indication of whether or not the bearing is bad.

 

Thanks for the vid. i will check this out today......

 

Great info. Definetely a sticky.

 

if you shake it from side to side as in the video, that usually will indicate a bad tierod. but grab the top & bottom and shake will normally show if the bearing is bad.

 

Correct IIRC...

BTW, although that looks like the stock suspension, the car is really jacked in the air. I thought I would throw that in for the n00bz.

 

ooo my car squeeks exactly like that when i'm driving down the road...thought it was a suspension problem...if i replace the LCA's will that cure the problem?

 

yea it could be a tie rod but... but in this case the wheel is locked out.. and i already replaced the tie rods...

 

Did Anyone See Those Massive Triceps
haha how hard is it to replace those thangs

 

Wow, by the time you get that much wiggle, I'm sure you woulda noticed a change in the braking too. All that "give" pushes the pads back. Have you checked the hub too?
Jae

 

LOL yea thats 4 years of highschool gynmnastics for ya.. rings, parallel bars and vault..



honestly i the only noticable thing that occured was my steering wheel vibrating over bumps.. thats alll.. and i dont really see how the hub can go bad... i know that people have had to replace them but i dunno..

 

THe hub can go bad. if you are not getting nice circular rotation as you are supposed to you can mess up the insides of it.

 

That thing sounds nasty!

I always do those little tests when I have the wheels off the ground, I don't get my hips into it that much though I need to get on that.

 

i guess i mean iv changed bearings so many times already and iv never seen a bad hub.. the race's are pressed in so much that it eliminates all movement... i guess the only way that i could go bad is when the bearing is so bad that it makes a race get dislodged from the hub...

 

i missed it... let me watch again.


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^^^^^ damn u guys maybe i should show my gf this vid.... hahahaha