Is there a secret to keeping these things alive? I've only driven this car 36k miles since I bought it and I've now gone through 6 front wheel bearings. The ones on the car now, one has like 2k or less miles and the other maybe 2500-3k miles... one is a timken the other a moog... My foxbody (5 lug) has the same ****ing bearings and I've driven that car probably 25k miles and never touched a front wheel bearing. So what's the secret?
I torqued the first few to factory spec (258 ft-lbs). This last set I torqued a little less (I think 200 ft-lbs) thinking the others might have failed from squeezing the inner race outward but if anything it shows the opposite? The weird thing is I don't recall these being bad when I parked the car before winter....What da funk guys...
I torqued the first few to factory spec (258 ft-lbs). This last set I torqued a little less (I think 200 ft-lbs) thinking the others might have failed from squeezing the inner race outward but if anything it shows the opposite? The weird thing is I don't recall these being bad when I parked the car before winter....What da funk guys...
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