Kingkong0192
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- New Milford, CT
Well a bad wheel bearing left me stranded 100 miles from my house. Ended up ruining the wheel bearing and then ruining the oil seal.
I just figured it was pressed on wrong. Bought another bearing and seal and pressed them back on.
Same problem. Just took the jeep for a test drive and it sounds like the race of the bearing isn't staying put and instead of the roller bearings just spinning inside the race the entire race is spinning instead.
The inside of the axle tube looked a little mucked up. Is it possible that the axle tube got beaten up so much that someone sanded a little off to try to smooth it down and took so much off that the race won't stay put?
Is there any way to fix that? Pull the shaft out and put a few small small tacks of weld to hold the race to the axle tube so it can't spin?
This is all speculation by the way. It could be something different but i can't think of anything else that makes sense to me.
Here's a video. The sound starts at around 8 seconds. At around 45 seconds you can hear it really lock up good. It sounds like an air tool or something. It's that clinging that sounds like bells. I am not referring to the backing plate rubbing that is also audible.
It's a D44 in question.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlPe0mnvYzA&feature=youtu.be
I just figured it was pressed on wrong. Bought another bearing and seal and pressed them back on.
Same problem. Just took the jeep for a test drive and it sounds like the race of the bearing isn't staying put and instead of the roller bearings just spinning inside the race the entire race is spinning instead.
The inside of the axle tube looked a little mucked up. Is it possible that the axle tube got beaten up so much that someone sanded a little off to try to smooth it down and took so much off that the race won't stay put?
Is there any way to fix that? Pull the shaft out and put a few small small tacks of weld to hold the race to the axle tube so it can't spin?
This is all speculation by the way. It could be something different but i can't think of anything else that makes sense to me.
Here's a video. The sound starts at around 8 seconds. At around 45 seconds you can hear it really lock up good. It sounds like an air tool or something. It's that clinging that sounds like bells. I am not referring to the backing plate rubbing that is also audible.
It's a D44 in question.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlPe0mnvYzA&feature=youtu.be
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