Fuggles

I am pretty sure that I have the same problem, my car is at the dealer right now, and the technician says that my driveshaft is loose and spinning erratically. He is going to adjust/tighten it. I'll let you know if that makes my problem go away.

nibble

thanks for the info. please keep us updated.

Fuggles

Got the car back, it was two hours labour charged, and the car seems to be back to normal. I'm at work right now but over the weekend I'll be able to drive it extensively to make sure the problem is really gone.

Good luck Nibble, this might be your solution as well.

nibble

Bill found the problem. I'm going to try to explain as best as I can. In short, the hub (part that's behind disk that presses onto ball bearing in knuckle) need to be replaced. When we took the part out, I saw a lot of rust dust and black dust. and the sleeve of the hub (protruding part) has worn out about .1 mm. what I think how it happened is, with loose axle nut, hub and the axle wasn't tight. as I'm driving, it was grinding itself and dust were formed inside. when we taught it last time, dust was still there, hence it got noisier. (packed powder...) this time everthing was cleaned before we put it together. so far, I don't have noise yet. but I'm hoping to replace hub and the bearing before fall colors. I'm also hoping that bill will chime in and give us more detail.

cheers,

Billman250

Inner race of the bearing spun on the hub, and wore the hub down about .008. New hub on the way, we'll install the new bearing and hub in one shot obviously