terrible noise

[scouse lanny]

hi there everyone can anyone help me just been driving then and had to pull over there is a terrible crunching noise coming from my swivels or brakes had to hobble home the swivel has just developed a leak from the swivel ball area do u think it could be that the seals have gone would it make it do that  :(

[paul_humphreys]

hi there everyone can anyone help me just been driving then and had to pull over there is a terrible crunching noise coming from my swivels or brakes had to hobble home the swivel has just developed a leak from the swivel ball area do u think it could be that the seals have gone would it make it do that  :(

Wheel bearing.

Paul

[hobbit]

As you will soon see it could be a number of things, I suppose the favourites will be as already mentioned, wheel bearing the most common, followed by cv joint,

if the motor has lost a lot of oil though the swivel seal, that might lead you down a certain path, although a little gear oil will go a long way

its a case of jack the thing up and have a good look round, spinning the wheel and pulling on it with hands at top and bottom then at the sides,  see where any movement is

if you are not sure what you are doing you can always to get someone local to help you, or try a garage to diagnose it, they wont charge for that (hopefully)

[scouse lanny]

i have only had the bearing changed about 2 months ago could they go fast it could b off doing the pheasant steps with u paul  :lol:  :lol: i stopped and put some more grease in the housing but keeped on doing it

[Eeyore]

Sounds like you may have had a swivel bearing collapse, as opposed to a wheel bearing. Wheel bearing won't normally cause the swivels to leak.

As Hobbit suggests, lift the required corner and give the wheel a good heave - if anythings out of place bearing wise, it'll show then.

Let us know what moves and we can go through it from there.

My key piece of advice before that though will be not to drive the vehicle, as chances are the current issue IS safety critical.

cheers
 8)
Eeyore

[Budgie]

I'd tend to go with Eeyore from the description.
The swivel bearings will cause a leak from the large seal around the chrome swivel housing when they go and the wheelbearings will leak from the rear hub seal, this will show as a leak from inside the rear of the brake disc.

What age of 90 is it, as the early ones (84-86/ish with rear drum brakes) had Railko bushes at the top of the swivel and not bearings like the later ones. If these get too warn then the movement tends to break up the bottom bearing.
Ask me how I know!  :roll: