Hi all, I've had my passenger side super tight nut become loose twice. Once the bearing was already disintegrating, and the other time the bearing had started to make noise when making left hand turns (I guess it throws weight to the bearing on outside of the turn). I replaced the bearing and the noise is gone. Never had a bearing problem on the driver side. I have another bearing for replacement but I couldn't get that nut off, although I haven't tried all the approaches described on the list. Kerry '86 syncro, 177K kstanley@cas.org
-----Original Message----- From: Jere Hawn [mailto:jbrschawn@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 3:10 PM To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com Subject: Bearing replacement follow up and Q
Hi all, I went to replace one rear bearing, I found the axle nut to be not very tight, the bearings were ok. With a cotter pin in the nut how did it loosen or am I seeing the prelude to bearing failure? TIA Jere 90 GL 88 GL |
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