Wheel Bearing Help
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Wheel Bearing Help
I have a 1999 Seville sls. has anyone ever changed the wheel bearing on this car before, the manual makes it seem more complicated than I think it is. I have help remove one off a saturn before but it was remove brakes,rotor 3 bolts in back and slide out and reverse for install. Any Help would be great.Sorry, FrontDrivers sidetire.
I believe it is the wheel bearing because it use to make a loud chirping noise every once and a while now it sounds like a baseball card in a bike tire when I drive. Noise only when in motion not from engine or breaking it is constant and loud. Removed entire assembly nothing loose or hitting anything. HELP
I believe it is the wheel bearing because it use to make a loud chirping noise every once and a while now it sounds like a baseball card in a bike tire when I drive. Noise only when in motion not from engine or breaking it is constant and loud. Removed entire assembly nothing loose or hitting anything. HELP
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RE: Wheel Bearing Help
Well i have done a few on GM cars in those years(old/buick) and would suspect they are somewhat the same (not sure though). I would plan about 2 hours a side. The only part that was even remotly tough was getting a socket and wrench the size of the hub nut. Also they have (the cars I have done) spicific tourque specs .. and that takes a big tourqe wrench, do you have one or know where to borrow one? the nuthas to be torqued correctly for load on the bearings.From looking at the hub bearing in pictures it looks pretty much the same. 4 bolts that mount it, and a hub nut, disconnect the sensor. Oh remove the caliper.
Again, if its like other gm cars of the same year its wont be to bad other then having the tools. Cheap repair manuals are worth it, $20 for a Haynes.
One word of advice if you decide to do it after reading up. DO NOT BUY CHEAP HUBS. I bought Valuecraft hubs ($95) and they failed in less then a year. Strangely enough the parts store that had the 2 year warrenty on them no longer carries them and since they print recipts on thermal paper now days its faded beyound reading now. I have heard Duralast is also a bad choice. I went with TIMKIN and had no problems after, was about $30 more a hub but when you figure i wasted the $200 for the crap ones.. Read up on Chevy Malibu, Pontiac grand Am, Olds Alero hubs.. you will see the cheap ones are garbage... pay for good ones!!!!! dont end up like me paying 2x for the job. Oh, most E-bay hubs are cheap ones (can look like a good deal sometimes, they are NOT!)
Again, if its like other gm cars of the same year its wont be to bad other then having the tools. Cheap repair manuals are worth it, $20 for a Haynes.
One word of advice if you decide to do it after reading up. DO NOT BUY CHEAP HUBS. I bought Valuecraft hubs ($95) and they failed in less then a year. Strangely enough the parts store that had the 2 year warrenty on them no longer carries them and since they print recipts on thermal paper now days its faded beyound reading now. I have heard Duralast is also a bad choice. I went with TIMKIN and had no problems after, was about $30 more a hub but when you figure i wasted the $200 for the crap ones.. Read up on Chevy Malibu, Pontiac grand Am, Olds Alero hubs.. you will see the cheap ones are garbage... pay for good ones!!!!! dont end up like me paying 2x for the job. Oh, most E-bay hubs are cheap ones (can look like a good deal sometimes, they are NOT!)
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