Eoynteenie
Planning an Advent4
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Ok, there has been a noise that sounds like something rubbing comin from somewhere in the car, parents say exhaust but been thou that and it all seems solid and rigde and no damage near it, so decided to check the rear brakes out for a quick look, as it comes from that area
When i got the dust cap off and the split pin out, removed the castle nut only to find the nut wasn't even handtight, so thought this was where the noise was coming from, but decided to give the brakes a quick look and clean up. Bearings looked and felt out, but put some extra lithium grease on them and put it back together. Now been following the 'haynes book of lies' so not really sure what went wrong but when putting it back together guess I over tighten the bolt adn squashed the bearing because at 10:30pm wednesday coming back home from the pub (no drinkin) there was a loud 'poof' and the whole car shook while doing between 60 to 70mph. Pulled to the side checked everything, under the bonnet, the wheels, couldn't find the problem, so decided to carry on where it felt like the handbrake was on so stopped again and phoned for help, aka the AA who when they turned up the car was ready to make a cup of tea because i left it running to keep the lights on as the battary ain't it best it once was so he felt the head gasket had gone and called a lowloader (designed for large heavy duty vans) to take me home.
Got to inspect the damage, other then heating it coolant the engine seems ok and runs without any problems but when taking the brakes apart again there was some damage, and the bearing fell out in a few bits ops:
and the drive dog as that what it reminds me off jammed itself into the thread damaging it
So, where can i get replacement bearings or anyone know the part numbers so i could go into the local bearing shop and get some for the back,
should i replace all four on the back?
is the hub still ok to use after the damage?
Can i replace the split pins with R pins?
And anyone got any idea on what that noise is? as it comes and goes and just sounds like something rubbing and chooses when it turns up no matter of speed.
When i got the dust cap off and the split pin out, removed the castle nut only to find the nut wasn't even handtight, so thought this was where the noise was coming from, but decided to give the brakes a quick look and clean up. Bearings looked and felt out, but put some extra lithium grease on them and put it back together. Now been following the 'haynes book of lies' so not really sure what went wrong but when putting it back together guess I over tighten the bolt adn squashed the bearing because at 10:30pm wednesday coming back home from the pub (no drinkin) there was a loud 'poof' and the whole car shook while doing between 60 to 70mph. Pulled to the side checked everything, under the bonnet, the wheels, couldn't find the problem, so decided to carry on where it felt like the handbrake was on so stopped again and phoned for help, aka the AA who when they turned up the car was ready to make a cup of tea because i left it running to keep the lights on as the battary ain't it best it once was so he felt the head gasket had gone and called a lowloader (designed for large heavy duty vans) to take me home.
Got to inspect the damage, other then heating it coolant the engine seems ok and runs without any problems but when taking the brakes apart again there was some damage, and the bearing fell out in a few bits ops:
and the drive dog as that what it reminds me off jammed itself into the thread damaging it
So, where can i get replacement bearings or anyone know the part numbers so i could go into the local bearing shop and get some for the back,
should i replace all four on the back?
is the hub still ok to use after the damage?
Can i replace the split pins with R pins?
And anyone got any idea on what that noise is? as it comes and goes and just sounds like something rubbing and chooses when it turns up no matter of speed.