Thread: wheel hub fell out of spindle

we already had a set of hubs/spindles with fresh bearings ready to go but when we took the driver side spindle off an the hub fell out with all the bearings we just had to take some pics lol

awe crap.

Ahaha thats how my driver side was. It made me think how the only thing holding my wheel on was the axle nut!

yeah thats what i told him dude, scary shit..

been there and done that.

See.... this is why I told that guy with the wheel jerking in the other thread to check for this. Very unsafe....

This generally happens when people take the axles out and put the car down on the wheels when doing engine swaps.

Never put your car down on wheels without the axles.

I generally get 2 long bolts with nuts and some large washers to hold everything in place.

ah, i've actually done that once... thanks for the heads up..

never did it to that car tho when i swapped that motor i had everything all apart.. never know tho maybe one of the previous owners did but who knows.. i do know that the wheel bearings went bad over time.. got worse an worse.. he said it drives like a dream now tho so he's happy

I had that happen going down the road in my old dodge truck. The shop we took it to forgot to tighten down the axle nut in the front bearing. It felt weird going around a corner and I was just getting ready to pull into a parking lot and off came the wheel, straight down on the knuckle. That was not a pleasant ride, but at least I was on a back street with no cars around only doing about 25mph. The only thing holding the knuckle and wheel on was the brake line.

That happened with my car as well.

Those wheel bearings are effing chowdered. Another thing that my old SE-R had totally clean. All 4 were new.