JLR Workshop fun

[Cobbler]

My Transit camper van uses the ABS to apply the brakes to the spinning wheel & thats 2006

 

[harveyp6]

For wheel bearings, swerving left and right on a quiet stretch of road can help decide which bearing is noisy. The noise will increase when you’re swerving away from the bad side.

There some cars that work exactly opposite to that, the old Maestros being one. It was always the unloaded bearing that was noisy.

 

[indy4x]

For wheel bearings, swerving left and right on a quiet stretch of road can help decide which bearing is noisy. The noise will increase when you’re swerving away from the bad side.

That's my usual methods

When I had my D3, it had a noisy front wheel bearing, when it 1st started it wasn't bad enough to identify which side with the swerve method, took 6 months and several thousand miles before you could positively identify the culprit using this method

Recently our Renault Master, defo noisy bearing, 1 hub nut looked newer than the other so did the older looking side, wrong choice!

 

[Melvyn Best]

That's my usual methods

When I had my D3, it had a noisy front wheel bearing, when it 1st started it wasn't bad enough to identify which side with the swerve method, took 6 months and several thousand miles before you could positively identify the culprit using this method

Recently our Renault Master, defo noisy bearing, 1 hub nut looked newer than the other so did the older looking side, wrong choice!

Years ago I had a couple of Australian girls turn up at my workshop in an Austin Maestro that had just bought from a fellow Ausi , they suspected a worn wheel bearing , it turned out to be three out of four

 

[dobbslc]

it turned out to be three out of four

Are you still talking about the wheel bearings?

 

[Melvyn Best]

Are you still talking about the wheel bearings?

Yes, there was only one that wasn’t noisy, fortunately one of the girls was brought up in the outback and had a bit of mechanical experience, she was watched as I was checking the car over