Front wheel bearings split apart.
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I can swap the sheild/caliper mounting braket. The brakeline bracket is different? Isn't that just a little clip on the back of the assembly? Oh well.
I'm off to the junkyard this weekend. If I don't find anything I will post a want-to-buy.
I'm off to the junkyard this weekend. If I don't find anything I will post a want-to-buy.
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Interesting read. I, too replaced bearings and races and have a similar noise, though it hasn't gotten worse in 5K miles or so and is intermittent. Again, sounds like brake pad noise and goes away when brake pedal pressed. I should dig into it.
I have always been generous when packing wheel bearings with grease be it the Rx7 or my motorcycle. The factory service manual for they Rx7 I have warns not to lubricate the wheel bearings "excessively". Anyone know why it would be bad to use too much grease?
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I have always been generous when packing wheel bearings with grease be it the Rx7 or my motorcycle. The factory service manual for they Rx7 I have warns not to lubricate the wheel bearings "excessively". Anyone know why it would be bad to use too much grease?
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Seamus
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Here are a few more. You can see what is left of the bearing compared to what they look like to begin with.
Update: you can also see where we cut through with a grinder.
Update: you can also see where we cut through with a grinder.
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The first wheel bearing replacement I did, a 57 Chevy when I was 17, I put the bearing, or race, don't remember which, in backwards. It took very few miles to chew up the new bearing and eat 1/2 way thought the spindle. At that time Montgomery Wards had a parts department, where I bought the bearings. When I returned the bearings for a free replacement, the first thing they asked was, "Did you install it the right way?", of course I did I replied, they can only go in one way. They gave me a free replacement.
As for repacking the new bearing, get one of those bearing packers. They are relatively cheap, under $15 I think, and will assure you of a thorough repack. You don't even have to get your hands greasy doing it.
Even of you could manage to cut off the old bearing, I would be leary of the spindle because of the heat cycling it has gone through to weld the bearing parts to it.
You did do a nice job of fubaring the spindle and bearing.
As for repacking the new bearing, get one of those bearing packers. They are relatively cheap, under $15 I think, and will assure you of a thorough repack. You don't even have to get your hands greasy doing it.
Even of you could manage to cut off the old bearing, I would be leary of the spindle because of the heat cycling it has gone through to weld the bearing parts to it.
You did do a nice job of fubaring the spindle and bearing.
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Ahh that brings back memorys of my first 7 welding the bearing onto the spindle, just like yours! I cut,hacked,torched on it for a few weeks until my mom told me to fix the car or get rid of it. I ended up going to the junkyard and getting a RH strut assembly with strut, springs, and rotor. I never opened up that wheel so I assume from my reading that it just failed since it was probably stock (~ 80K miles). I think it only ended up costing me 80$ and took a few hours since I had to compress the spring with a crowbar and a 2x4 to get the strut assembly back onthe control arm. I REALLY need to replace the wheel bearings in my current 7 before I revisit that experience..
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