Re: Wheel bearings

[Matt Zajac <mzaj99@yahoo.com>]

Hi Darren, 
That's me and my $0.02 again. I went through it couple
of months ago. I understand dealer sells these
bearings as a kit and they're pretty expensive. Still
I would suggest to change both of them at the same
time, beacuse as you put more miles on your car, the
other bearing will go out eventually and you have to
go through all of this again. I changed them myself
and I have to say that without proper tools it is
major pain in the ass to get old ones out and even
more pain to put new ones in without breaking them
(think price). This is still difficult to do even with
a bearing puller, which I used, because you have
nothing to rest it on. It is a great idea to change
the brakes while you at it, it would save you some
time. If you just started to hear this bearing I think
you have propably arround 2-3 k before gets really
bad, but if you already have some vibration and loud
humming, get to it as soon as you can. I think it is
propably a left bearing because when you turn to the
right car's body rolls to the left and puts more
weight on left wheel. As the situation worsens you
will notice: louder humming noise, more vibration and
humming will increase significantly when you turn
right at speed.
These are just my observations comming from my own
experience, I'm sorry it's such a bad news but I hope
it helps you avoid some pain I had to go through (my
ass still hurts when I think of it).

Matt Z. '98 GLX 73K



--- "Gerardo S. Rojas" <gsrojas@lucent.com> wrote:
> Darren,
> 
> I had the same problem, left front wheel bearing
> went bad.  Only my
> car has 40k.  You probably want to do the brakes and
> the bearing at
> the same time, but don't wait to long.
> 
> Darren Gibbons wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I think that my car needs one (or two) new front
> wheel bearings. There's a
> > humming noise/slight vibration at speed coming
> from the front of the car,
> > that becomes slightly louder when I turn to the
> right.  I had the car
> > checked out when I purhased it, and they said that
> it was probably a wheel
> > bearing but they would have to do more
> investigation before they knew which
> > side.
> > 
> > The car is a '97 with 89,000 KM.
> > 
> > Do these symptoms sound like a bad bearing?  Is
> this something I should fix
> > right away, or can it wait a couple of weeks when
> I take it in to get new
> > brake pads?
> > 
> > Thanks for any advice,
> > 
> > Darren.
> 
> -- 
> Gerardo S. Rojas
> (630) 713-9866
> gsrojas@lucent.com
> 


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