The spindle itself could be worn where the bearings
ride on it. This could happen if the bearings ever
started spinning as a unit on the spindle. No amount
of tightening the bearing would make the problem go
away. This is easy to check (when the hub is off)
by placing the bearings on the spindle in
the correct locations and seeing if they are loose.
The only real fix is replacing the spindle.
But generally a car has to have a lot of miles for
this to happen.
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
--- Jim Muller <jimmuller@rcn.com> wrote:
> The last issue I addressed on the GT6 today appears
> to be related to
> a front wheel bearing. The RF wheel has developed
> some looseness
> that you can detect by pulling the wheel in and out
> at the top. It
> isn't a tie rod end because it isn't side-to-side
> wobble nor is there
> detectable freeplay there. It is definitely
> camber-oriented. The
> ball joint and trunnion bushings have no detectable
> freeplay so I
> conclude that it is the bearing. Once before I
> tried to tighten the
> castle nut but it wouldn't go far enough to put the
> cotter pin in a
> different hole.
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