Dave: Sounds like an out-of-round brake drum. Neal Barrentine Bloomington, Indiana 1986 GL 1960 Baja Bug On May 1, 2006, at 11:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > Subject: Scraping Sound--Wheel Bearing? > > Here is a puzzler. > > My van has new rear brakes and drums. Before I had that done, I was > power > washing it and noticed a lot of rust or Arizona red dirt coming out of > the > right rear wheel when directing spray at it. This was right after I > bought > it. After power washing, I heard the wheel scraping for the first > time. It > went away after driving for a while. Hard turns and stops makes it > come > back. I had brakes and drums put on at Brakes Plus and they said it > was > really scraping bad after they got it all back together. They said > they > tightened the axle nut and test drove again and it started up again. > They > tighten it some more. They got several turns out of it I guess and it > was > better for a while. I took the van to mechanic and it wasn't making > noise > at that time. He said it seemed fine. They said if it was wheel > bearings, > it would make noise all the time. It scrapes depending on the load on > the > wheel. A little throttle and the sound goes away, or let it engine > brake a > little and it goes away. Makes me wonder if the wheel is able to move > some. > It scrapes as it rotates and when I had it jacked up it was scraping > in > the same spot each revolution and sounds like it the drum against the > thinner metal cover behind the wheel but I couldn't find a particular > spot. > Looking at the now slightly worn brake shoes they are not wearing > evenly on > that wheel. The scraping is getting worse and I am embarrassed to > drive it > in public. > > Anyone know what the likely problem is? > > Thanks > Dave > 91 Syncro > |
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