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wheel bearing noise? 850 1997

posted by  Hellboy on  Mon Oct 11 01:32 CST 2004
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When my passenger side front bearing went bad I could actually feel it when I rotated the tire by hand with the car up on jackstands and the tranny in neutral. It did not rotate smoothly like the other side, which had a new hub and bearing installed right before I bought the car. That seems to be a common trend to, if one goes bad, there's a good chance the other side isn't far behind.

I found that the noise increased and decreased in intensity when loading up the side with the bad bearing. If I went into a hard left hander the sound would get louder and more pronounced as the passenger side tire was loaded. If I took a hard right hander it got softer as that wheel unloaded and the weight shifted. I've had lots of bad wheel bearings on lots of different cars, both front and rear, and they all produced the same basic type of noise, very distinct.






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