Re: IML: Rear Axle Bearings

[randalpark@xxxxxxx]

Well, now we know, that must be what happens after the whopping sound. 
Its pretty faint, and most folks don't hear it. When I had that happen, 
I inspected the bearings upon removal and only found a couple of split 
rollers. Still, that was enough to make it sound wrong to me.

Fronts are easier to inspect and I have found one or two split rollers 
there also. That was when I discerned the groaning noise from outside, 
with the car jacked up and spinning the front wheel. They get much 
worse before hearing it from inside the car.

Front and rear wheel bearings make noise as soon as they are worn, and 
way before they actually fail. One cracked roller will do it. We just 
need to know what to listen for.

Paul W.

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Sent: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: IML: Rear Axle Bearings

randalpark@xxxxxxx wrote:In my experience, rear axle bearings always 
make a whopping sound. At least that is when I replace them. I don't 
know what they sound like once they actually sieze up, and start 
turning inside the axle housing. Uh . . . well, let me just say it's 
not a sound that's pleasing to the ear.  LOL!

The rear axle bearings in my '71 Imperial failed just as I was turning 
into my neighborhood at the end of a 12 hour return trip from Carlisle, 
PA, in 2001.

The bearings were so bad that I couldn't get the axles out.  Robert 
Soule loaned me a special tool that he had made for this specific 
purpose, and it took a LOT of hammering to get them out.

I have pictures that I've been meaning to put on the website.  The 
bearings on the passenger side were completely demolished, and the 
driver's side were not far behind.  As best we could tell, the seals 
had been replaced some years before, and the bearings had NOT been 
lubricated at all.

As for the sounds . . . well, put a bunch of gravels in a tin can and 
then drag it down a gravel road.  That ought to be close.  ;o)

Elijah


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