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10-04-2010, 09:52 AM
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Does a bearing poop in the woods?
My wife's Corolla is an execrable vehicle. It has a "pothole finder" headlight; no hubcaps, lots of dents, and my six foot frame gets achy if I sit in it more than 30 minutes. She loves it, though.
Yesterday it ate its FOURTH wheel bearing, installed just a few months ago. Anybody else have problems with Corolla wheel bearings?
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10-04-2010, 10:34 AM
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Re: Does a bearing poop in the woods?
When the bearing was replaced, did you replace the race as well?
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10-04-2010, 12:39 PM
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Re: Does a bearing poop in the woods?
what about missing dust caps?
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10-04-2010, 04:41 PM
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Re: Does a bearing poop in the woods?
Ran into this problem on a friend's Kia Sephia.
Autozone wheel bearings went in it each time and after about 5-6k miles it would be bad... solution was to get an entire hub from the junkyard for $20 and call it good. It rolled another 40k like that until she sold it.
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10-04-2010, 08:04 PM
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Re: Does a bearing poop in the woods?
sounds like to me you guys didn't grease the bearings properly or something.. There really is no reason for a bearing to go so quickly unless it's not lubed up at all.
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10-05-2010, 04:48 AM
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Re: Does a bearing poop in the woods?
I have had the same problem... But it was not a grease problem (most newer wheel bearings are a sealed bearing, so no way for you to grease them). The problem is the Autozone cheap bearings are made in China and just crap.
Try and find a place that carries Timken or Chicago Rawhide bearings. Those are two that I have had luck with in the past. That said, I think both USED to be made in the US, but it has been a few years (over 5) since I had to do that research so it could have changed by now.
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10-05-2010, 07:44 AM
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Re: Does a bearing poop in the woods?
The bearings are sealed units. We had one replaced at a toyota dealer, but it crapped out too. The later bearings have been aftermarket units.
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10-06-2010, 06:25 PM
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Re: Does a bearing poop in the woods?
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The bearings are sealed units. We had one replaced at a toyota dealer, but it crapped out too. The later bearings have been aftermarket units.
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are you sure? the only bearings I've seen that are sealed units are the ones used for the throwout bearing or whatnot.. These ARE tapered bearings, right?
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10-07-2010, 11:11 AM
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Re: Does a bearing poop in the woods?
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are you sure? the only bearings I've seen that are sealed units are the ones used for the throwout bearing or whatnot.. These ARE tapered bearings, right?
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I have no idea whether these bearings have roller, ball or tapered roller elements. They're shielded and sealed, so you can't look inside.
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10-07-2010, 01:57 PM
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Re: Does a bearing poop in the woods?
It turns out, the bearings are usually double ball bearing which totally sucks imo.. I'm going to try to find a way to see if I can get some tapered roller bearings for my civic in place of these ball bearings.. Totally disgraceful that they'd use ball bearings.
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