Thread: What a bad wheel hub looks like

I took some pictures a couple weeks ago when I was redoing my passenger side wheel knuckle. I knew the bearing had gone bad, but I didn't know how bad... when I went to take off the wheel, the wheel hub ended up coming off with it.

Here's what happens when you let a bad wheel bearing go bad for too long:


As you can see half of the wheel hub race is pitted/worn down, this is the bad bearing spinning around on the hub race.




Brand new wheel hub.

wow. your lucky you didn't cause more damage waiting so long... that's kinda scary

Yeah, thank god for axle nuts :P

Also I should mention (more like needless to say) that if your wheel hub ends up looking like that, you're going to have to replace it with a new one.

And also I believe that part is dealer only. I have had no luck with parts places.

Copped mine on a seller on ebay. Other than that I think you're right... as time goes by, finding these Sentra/200sx front hubs in the future is going to get harder and harder.

How many miles are on that one?

I have been told 1.6L models have the same hub. Junk yard raiding time!

That hub is for my DD, a 1.6 200sx


Tricked, not sure on the mileage as it was a junkyard wheel knuckle. I will blame my f'd up alignment for that one.

hi i dont go on the forum often but my tire yesterday was bent inward like if it was collapsed and well made hell noise and when i got home the rotor was smoking cuz of the angle of the tire that it rubbed against the caliper brace and destroyed it. So i took of the tire and noticed that the hub was like loose or something and well now im going to pick n pull today.......so the hubs from the 200sx 1.6 are the same as the ones for the 91 se-r? thats my question.

Um, punctuation? I can not read your post.