[Shotimes] Wheel Bearing replacement?

[Michael]

Bruce,

I'm just curious, but what are the symptoms on drivability from a wheel bearing with play in it?  Did you experience any shaking? If so, at what speed?  Any noises? ...

Michael
94MTX,green,BOS+

 --- On Fri 07/04, Kevin & Cheryl Airth < clubairth@peoplepc.com > wrote:
From: Kevin & Cheryl Airth [mailto: clubairth@peoplepc.com]
To: bmalach1@nycap.rr.com, shotimes@autox.team.net
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 13:19:16 -0500
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Wheel Bearing replacement?

Bruce:<br> I would just check the other bearing, maybe let the machine shop take look.<br>No point in replacing something good. Watch that the bearings are pressed in<br>properly by the shop. Look at the spindles and how the bearing sets in them<br>before you send them out. Get the old bearings back. They should not be<br>beaten up if the shop has a press. Otherwise just pound them in and out at<br>home yourself! Just like the old days!<br>.<br>Replace the front sway bar body mounts too. How about the strut rod<br>bushings? Does the control arm come with bushings? Do you have the proper<br>tool for the inner tie rods? The big socket for the hub nuts?<br>You can pound the axle out of the hub but Autozone does have a free loaner<br>hub puller.<br>.<br>.<br><br><br><br>> Hey all, need some help making sure I'm getting everything I need to<br>replace<br>> my two front wheel bearings before the convention. Well only one is got<br>play<br>> to it but I figure what's good for one is
  good for the other. I'm gonna be<br>> doing this myself with the exception of the pressing in and out of the new<br>and<br>> old bearings. I plan to pull both front knuckles and take them over to my<br>> local napa that has a machine shop in it and have them do the pressing of<br>the<br>> bearings.<br>><br>> So I need to order all the "needed" parts ahead of time so that I'm not<br>trying<br>> to find all these things last minute or spend loads on buying them<br>locally. I<br>> figure that I need to get 2 of the large nut on the end of the spindle and<br>the<br>> bearings themselves. Is there anything else I should be getting when doing<br>> this? Also are there any good tips or tricks to these? I'm gonna be<br>replacing<br>> my Lower control arms and ball joints at the same time as well as both the<br>> inner and outer tie rods, and the front sway links too. I have just about<br>> everything I need except for the control arms and the bearing parts and<br>I'm<br>> just abou
 t to submit an order on rockauto.<br>><br>> I know I'm gonna need an alignment after this so I'm planning on getting<br>that<br>> scheduled for late in the day that I plan on attacking this. Cause I also<br>need<br>> a new windshield, and my NYS inspoection taken care of.<br>><br>> Thanks<br>><br>> Bruce<br>> 94 Opal Frost MTX<br>> 93 Black ATX - winter beater then parts car :-)<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Shotimes mailing list<br>> Shotimes@autox.team.net<br>> http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo/shotimes<br>_______________________________________________<br>Shotimes mailing list<br>Shotimes@autox.team.net<br>http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo/shotimes<br>

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