Re: Front wheel bearings.

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah@gsinet.net>]

I've had bad wheel bearings destroy hubs, and even wheel bearing housings! The
hubs seem to get detroyed when the bearing siezes enough to put enough pressure
and vibration etc on the hub to work it loose and start the wheel bearing
spinning on the hub, and then you can't reuse the hub because part of it has
been machined away and it will be too loose. I had a housing destoyed once on
my wheel bearing that was so bad that the wheel started to rub on the strut.
There was just metal everywhere, and everything in the general vicinity got
destroyed. I think the CV shaft survived, but I don't remember. I still have
the hub and wheel bearing in my pile of "horrible examples".
    -Josiah
    '84 GTi (off the road for the winter)
    '86 Scirocco 8v (for sale! $1200)
    '87 QSW (daily driver)
    http://www.gsinet.net/~josiah

Shawn C Meze wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Nov 1998 19:43:44 -0800 Kevin <aventari@cts.com> writes:
> >:) oh yeah, to answer your question, no, it wont hurt to drive on it.
> the
> >more you do drive on in, the more chance you can destroy the hub and
> >need a new one.
>
> How can bad wheel bearings destroy a hub? Curious.
>
> >From my vast worldly experience, id think that driving on bad wheel
> bearings would run the risk of obliterating the bearing itself which
> could, worse case scenerio, roll the wheel/hub/brake assy right off the
> spindle of the car.
> (say, isnt that my wheel going down the road? and WHY do I hear this
> _grinding_ niose?)
>
> -OR-
>
> The bearing siezes on the race and the wheel locks up. Either way, not
> something id like to happen to me.
>
>               Shawn Meze
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