Sebring driving noise

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> "Bill Putney" <bptn RemoveThis @kinez.net> wrote in message
> news:486F892E.9010302@kinez.net...
>> Why are you going back to extremely old and dead threads (one from 2007,
>> one from *2004*!!, and this one from 2006) and resurrecting them?
>>
>> On replacing hub bearing assys., DIY'ers do them all the time. Not a
>> big deal.
>>
>
> Not to mention you can sometimes just rotate them 180 degrees and
> get another 50K out of them.
>
> Ted

I actually was successful the first time I tried that in the late 80's
on a car I had (actually it was 120° - three holes/bolts in the hub). A
second time I tried it for grins, it didn't work. It depends on what
element of the bearing gets pitted or brinelled, and where - i.e., if
it's the stationary or rotating race.

Bill Putney
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"Bill Putney" <bptn RemoveThis @kinez.net> wrote in message
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> Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > "Bill Putney" <bptn RemoveThis @kinez.net> wrote in message
> > news:486F892E.9010302@kinez.net...
> >> Why are you going back to extremely old and dead threads (one from
2007,
> >> one from *2004*!!, and this one from 2006) and resurrecting them?
> >>
> >> On replacing hub bearing assys., DIY'ers do them all the time. Not a
> >> big deal.
> >>
> >
> > Not to mention you can sometimes just rotate them 180 degrees and
> > get another 50K out of them.
> >
> > Ted
>
> I actually was successful the first time I tried that in the late 80's
> on a car I had (actually it was 120° - three holes/bolts in the hub). A
> second time I tried it for grins, it didn't work. It depends on what
> element of the bearing gets pitted or brinelled, and where - i.e., if
> it's the stationary or rotating race.
>

BOTH front bearings on my '94 T&C have had that treatment. It
worked for them

Ted
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