Date:         Sun, 31 Jul 2005 12:01:35 -0600
Reply-To:     jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
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From:         jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject:      Re: front wheel hot to the touch? caliper dragging?
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In years of working on vehicles I have seen several sticking calipers also
with bad wheel bearings.  We would have fun trying to analyze which did what
first.  Our conclusions were that the most common way would be the sticking
caliper putting off centered pressure on the wheel and a "loose" bearing
getting stressed.  Loose could be a worn bearing or a loosely installed
bearing or a cheap one with bad tolerances.  You would now get a wobble
vibration effect  on the bearing further accelerating the breakdown.

The strange thing is that we always saw this on either cars with radical
rims/tires (which accelerate bearing wear) or heavy vehicles like vanagons.
jimt
On 7/31/05 1:53 AM, "Jeff Oxroad" <Oxroad@AOL.COM> wrote:

> In  conclusion, that original hot wheel seemed to be the bearing. Once
> everything cooled down I checked the wheel and it spun freely with no  brake
> drag. I
> can't recall if there was bearing noise in this test.  But something got  me
> looking at the bearing which as I said had  noticably failed.
>
> I suppose there's a chance the caliper had a  "one-time" stuck drag on  the
> rotor causing the heat, melting the  grease, failing the bearing. Or it was a