Another breakdown, but why?

[ade666]

hi mate. take one of the bolts that holds the flange on and screw it into the hole in the end where the circlip goes, pull towards you and it should all come together. its a little fiddly and you will swear at it alot but works

[Leigh]

Managed to pull it out enough to get the circlip in properly but not the washers. Will have another go tomorrow I think.

Thanks for your advice  

[bobtail4x4]

Funnily enough I had the same problem on the way back from Sodbury, I was convinced the noise was a rear bearing,
The race had welded itself onto the stub, I got a good S/H one for £10 from a local specialist, and the seals etc for another £6.
I had the bearings in,

The scary part was the car passed a tough MOT 400 miles earlier, and nothing was found.

I think I will include a strip down of the hubs in the service schedule.

[ben_haynes]

Hi Guys.

Can I ask you all what maintainence you do to your wheel bearings? I know this sounds cheeky but it's not meant that way!  :D Personally I remove the bearings as part of the 24K service & check for scoring, refit with new grease. Do I need to do this more or less often?

Also, there has been some debate over the 'hand of experience' method of adjusting wheel bearings. Has anyone sourced a torque wrench that can tighten to 4Nm as recommended in the handbook? Would this reduce the chance of failure? It is something I would prefer to do but the cost of a decent wrench put me off.

Cheers, Dan

snap-on do a 1/4' and 3/8' torque wrench that go that low but then you have to have adapters to fit a socket that fits the nuts

I have a 1' drive socket, 1' - 3/4', 3/4' - 1/2', 1/2' - 3/8', 3/8' - 1/4' on a 1/4' torque wrench, very interesting to look at

similar to this http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp?P65=&tool=all&item_ID=55273&group_ID=955&store=uk&dir=catalog except mine goes down to 1Nm (cost the company about £250 :shock: )

Cant see that it would make much difference if it is torqued or not

[Range Rover Blues]

Funny, there have been a spate of bearing failures recently within MC.  Any problems guys I'll send Julie round to fix them (eh tim ).

As for the torque wrench, that only applies to later models with tighter tolernances (though all cars can be adjusted so) and with new bearings IIRC, so I just stick with a feeler guage, if the correct one fits AFTER I've tightened both nuts then it's right, simple as that.  With the later style CV joint it's the endflaot that's critical, not the torque as the endfloat in the CV joint has to be greater than in the hub.