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Reply #15 – April 11, 2009, 04:59:30 PM

my wifes 03- alero loves to eat front brakes and hubs. It's not a terrible car otherwise but i can't wait to replace it with something a little less.....i dunno, GM

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Reply #16 – April 11, 2009, 07:13:54 PM

Quote from: ipsd;266885

No thanks you can take your idea of the same $8.00 bearings you have now and make them into a hub so you can't grease or replace them without buying the whole unit and Keep it. I'll play with some grease and get a little dirty and save my wallet from the pain of throw away parts.

yeah,, your right. My spindals are worn so the inner bearing is rigged with shim stock to prevent the inner bearing inner race from spinning.

Now that i recall doing the bearing on the mother in laws kia sofia, that stupid bearing did press in from the outside of the hub. Yeah, your right, the wheel could come right off. Im not sure what the odds are of it happening though. It would not be a funny experience in the least.

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Reply #17 – April 11, 2009, 07:57:27 PM

One of my freinds had a wheel fall off and mess up the whole car after taking there car to a shop to get the brakes changed.

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Reply #18 – April 11, 2009, 08:26:10 PM

Im sorry, but you know a hub is coming apart long, long before it happens.

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Reply #19 – April 11, 2009, 08:36:34 PM

I agree with Shame302: Wheel bearings get noisy long before they get dangerous. They growl like a , and will have play in them (any play at all in a sealed bearing is grounds for replacement). When they get REALLY bad the don't just growl, they howl, and eventually they make sing sounds as the wheel flops about and the brakes grind. There is no excuse to ever let them get to this point though. Bad bearings would be noticed long before complete failure on any vehicle that is reasonably maintained.

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Reply #20 – April 11, 2009, 08:49:47 PM

Quote from: V8Demon;266889

My wife's 2000 Cougar had to have BOTH front wheel bearings replaced about a year ago. The parts were not cheap. A fully bolted wheel moved as if I had removed the lug nuts and were trying to wiggle it off the studs....

I've seen it to many times. People come in to my work looking for the bearings for there car thinking about the last time they bought bearings 20-30years ago. There eyes get all huge and bugged out when I tell them it is all made into an assembly that you have to buy as a hole unit. But they always repack my bearings when they do my brakes some even say. There idea of $50 for bearings and seals NOPE, why not try $200.00 is about the average price range. Then we could talk about those 3/4HD and 1 ton trucks @$300.00 and those are all each prices. All for a part that takes the same old bearings on the inside as we have had since the 50's. Just now they make to races as one piece or so you have to destroy what holds it in to get it out. Then we have those sleeve bearing that press in just as bad. All of these are sealed units so you can't grease them so that old nasty metal toned grease is still in there like liquid Steel with some grease in there too. So from the beginning they used a part that last long enough that you have to buy a new one once the warranty is out. If our stuff is to good we won't sell enough parts to line our pockets. The paid the engineers to engineer more money in there pockets. So why do they cost so much because instead of buying the base bearings and seals you also buy the Hub the part that never seems to ware out and if it does you install new races unless that is wallered out. Then they don't harden anything near like they used to. Now everything seems to be case hardened not fully hardened like before. Much easier to break it that way.