It’s never a good idea to ignore any strange sounds your car might be making. Maybe you’ve noticed it’s handling a little weird or making a strange clunking sound. If you’re like my wife when we first ...
A bad wheel bearing can, as mentioned, seize and the torsional force that used to peacefully spin through the bearing now gets transferred to the knuckle or hub assembly. Which is quite solidly ...
Typically, wheel bearings are like Simon and Garfunkel (or Disturbed, if you prefer) and omit "The Sound of Silence." Not the song, that'd be annoying, but actual silence. However, when wheel bearings ...
Your car’s wheels spin around a stationary axle, and in order for them to do so, something has to allow for “slip” between the two. That something is a wheel bearing. A vehicle’s wheel bolts to a hub, ...
My wife's Sentra's been making a roaring noise for the past week or so. I took it to the dealership today and they said both front wheel bearings were bad. They don't have any in stock, they should be ...
With tolerances no more than the width of human hairs, there's little room for guess work when torqueing wheel bearings. Good and bad in the wheel-bearing world is divided by a very fine line - about ...
As routine maintenance and basic automotive servicing tasks go, packing wheel bearings isn't one of the glamorous ones. It's a messy job—and one that could cause serious damage or problems if not ...