Wheel bearing? Prob'ly, but...

[julie at menloparkrandd.com (julie@menloparkrandd.com)]

Good points. First I have to work out why its stopped running.
It really is a rocc :)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Karl Krupke [mailto:kkrup62@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2006 09:00 PM
>To: julie@menloparkrandd.com, amalventano1@tds.net, scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Wheel bearing? Prob'ly, but...
>
>Just for grins, doesn't hurt to take a quick look at brakes before going to 
>the effort of replacing wheel bearings. Could be a chunk of gunge caught 
>against the rotor, or possibly a anti-noise spring that's broken or been hit 
>by a rock...
> Get the front off the ground and turn wheels by hand (and if the 
>bearings ARE bad you'll probably feel some slop and/or grind in one of 'em). 
>It probably is a bad bearing, but could be anything at all that rotates with 
>the wheels; brake rotor, half-shaft...
> It'd suck to do bearings and still have noise (though I agree, do both 
>at the same time. Not that much more trouble, and you only have to realign 
>one time).
>
>Karl
>
>>From: julie@menloparkrandd.com
>>To: "Allyn" <amalventano1@tds.net>, julie@menloparkrandd.com,"'Org, 
>>Scirocco'" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>>Subject: Re: Wheel bearing?
>>Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:28:59 +0000
>>
>>< cough, aaaHummm>
>>ARRRGGG
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Allyn [mailto:amalventano1@tds.net]
>> >Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2006 01:44 PM
>> >To: julie@menloparkrandd.com, ''Org, Scirocco''
>> >Subject: RE: Wheel bearing?
>> >
>> >Replace both. Sciroccos have a nasty habbit of audibally 'tricking' you 
>>into thinking its one side, when its actually the other.
>> >Also, if one is failing, chances are the other will in short order.
>> >Al
>> >
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: julie@menloparkrandd.com [mailto:julie@menloparkrandd.com]
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:03 AM
>> >> To: Org, Scirocco
>> >> Subject: Wheel bearing?
>> >>
>> >> I hear a cyclical grinding on the front DS of the car. It
>> >> changes a bit whil turning, but not much.
>> >>
>> >> Is the wheel hub the same from an 81 MKI to the 87 MKII? If
>> >> its the bearing, I would just like to swap it out on the weekend.
>> >>
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