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Wheel bearing - confirm my suspicions?

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Disco Matt:
Oh, don't worry - it won't be going anywhere apart from a slow limp to the garage along quiet back roads (so I don't hold too many people up at 30mph!)

Range Rover Blues:
Wheel bearing has washed out and pitted so you need to look at the oil seal and the journal it runs on on the stub axle too.

I'd suspect the inner end of the RH hub, the one that usually welds itself on.

If you get the hub off it's not too hard to drive the bearing races out, use a solid screwdriver and a hammer as a drift.  When starting the new one back in you use the old race to get it going in square or better still cut a slot in the old race with a Dremel and use it to drive the new race home.

If you use a screwdriver then you will notice the hammer start to bounce back as the race gets seated into the hub, just be very careful you don't let the tip scratch the new race.


Always work loads of grease into the bearing before you fit it and fill the hub with grease too.  As a guide about 20-30% of the grease you put in actually lubricates the bearing, the rest surrounds the bearing keeping it wet (and cool).

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