Long version: Short below!So I figured out my noise was a seriously screwed up wheel bearing. As in flopping around. The noise and vibration progressed so quickly, I knew it couldn't have been the axle. Glad I dissasembled it first.
SO, I bought a wheel bearing and hub assembly. I called the guys I know at Ford and kindly asked them for a wheel bearing. He said it was a sealed unit. I replyed that the bearing was sealed, not the hub to which he replied that I was wrong and that the assembly costs $140, even with my dealer discount. Oh, and it wasn't in stock.
No thanks.
Called Fair Auto. They said they ONLY sell it as a repair kit which includes the hub with studs, axle nut, retaining ring, and bearing. It was some strange brand of hub and they asked $100 for it, discounted.
No thanks.
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Called the boys at Exact Auto. They also said it comes as a repair kit, but the bearing was a seperate, sealed Federal Mogul bearing. Awesome, somebody who knows what they are talking about. They delivered it to my dealership in good time and out of the box came a bright new National Hub, the retaining ring, axle nut, and the bearing, unpressed from the hub. It was only $86.
SO! Now I have to press the bearing out of the spindle (tommorrow's job), but should I bother replacing the hub? The bearing has a seperate inner race, so the only thing I can see going wrong is the inner race getting seized on the hub. Should I save the $40 and send this pretty little hub back and just press the old hub out of the old bearing?
Thanks.
P.S. Tips are awesome.
SO, I bought a wheel bearing and hub assembly. I called the guys I know at Ford and kindly asked them for a wheel bearing. He said it was a sealed unit. I replyed that the bearing was sealed, not the hub to which he replied that I was wrong and that the assembly costs $140, even with my dealer discount. Oh, and it wasn't in stock.
No thanks.
Called Fair Auto. They said they ONLY sell it as a repair kit which includes the hub with studs, axle nut, retaining ring, and bearing. It was some strange brand of hub and they asked $100 for it, discounted.
No thanks.
SHORT VERSION HERE!
Called the boys at Exact Auto. They also said it comes as a repair kit, but the bearing was a seperate, sealed Federal Mogul bearing. Awesome, somebody who knows what they are talking about. They delivered it to my dealership in good time and out of the box came a bright new National Hub, the retaining ring, axle nut, and the bearing, unpressed from the hub. It was only $86.
SO! Now I have to press the bearing out of the spindle (tommorrow's job), but should I bother replacing the hub? The bearing has a seperate inner race, so the only thing I can see going wrong is the inner race getting seized on the hub. Should I save the $40 and send this pretty little hub back and just press the old hub out of the old bearing?
Thanks.
P.S. Tips are awesome.
