Front Wheel Bearing Disaster.. please help ;(

jammin1911 · Post by **jammin1911** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:22 pm

I'll see if I can put something together takza.

Keith, that sucks about your strut mount and I'm extremely jealous of the lack of rust on your car. Must be a lot easier working on a vehicle where everything isnt seized.

keith · Post by **keith** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:25 pm

Thats its good side, but there is only one little eraser sized rust spot, surface only, on the whole car, despite the "battle scars". The only bolts that are rusted in place are the ones in front of the cat. The car only gets washed when it rains and it has never seen a can of wax. Until that rust spot finally appeared, I thought it had a stainless steel body. And they do salt the roads here, even when its not snowing.

jammin1911 · Post by **jammin1911** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:44 pm

Weird, haha.

Mine is kind of the opposite, it looks pretty fantastic from the outside, not a single dent, one spec of rust on the hood where I assume a rock hit it. A tiny bit of bubbling around some of the seals and a bit around the trunk keyhole/latch dealie.

But, jack it up and look underneath or take the wheels off and it's a damn nightmare.

When I had the car up on jackstands last weekend doing this bearing I literally left a *pile* of rust on the ground under where I was working just from all of the banging trying to get things loosened. I used a good 25% of a can of PB Blaster too and theres only what.. 8 - 10 bolts to remove throughout that entire bearing job?

jammin1911 · Post by **jammin1911** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:45 pm

Oh, I should also report that noise levels on the highway have gone down significantly since I did the bearing job - I always blamed the knobby winter tires I have on there for the extreme road noise but it's quite comfortable now at "high" speeds.

Post by **ARCHINSTL** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:09 pm

jammin1911 wrote: I used a good 25% of a can of PB Blaster too and theres only what.. 8 - 10 bolts to remove throughout that entire bearing job?

Don't get ticked - but - what helps with this is to use a wire wheel on the affected areas before using the PB Blaster. I've also used my Dremel-clone on small items, like brake bleeders, etc.
Tom M.

jammin1911 · Post by **jammin1911** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:18 pm

good tip actually, then the PB could actually get in there !