Thread: Symptoms of bad wheel bearing and/or axle boot ripped?

This !!!

bad wheel bearings go.....

womm wooommm woooommmm woooomm wooooommmm

you can tell with noise or if any play moving it when you have the car jacked.

i would say bad axle, bad hub, or slip belt on a tire.

I agree with Ashton...it's the axle.

Mine didn't get as bad as yours but it sure was noisy...due to the major pitting from dirt/sand via the torn boot. A father & son shop rebuilt it with bigger balls The father had some homemade tool he used to bore out/polish the pitted holes where the bearing balls went. Never had issues.

haha...I'm sure those are the proper terms.

Wheel bearings can also make a 'pop' sound when you hit a bump or in my case turning into and up the incline of my driveway, but not when turning on a smooth road.

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Ok at this point, it appears to be the innver CV joint..

Ding ding ding. lol Like I said. hehe

Not to thread jack, but would regreasing an Axel fix what sounds like gears turning? Nothing seems wrong physically or wiggles, but I recently did a engine swap in my SE with another GA and I notice an ambient noise under my feet of what I assume is the Axel and such turning. Car has around 150k and like I said it's basically just a soft metal gears turning type ambient noise.....nothing intermittent or loud. It's, not the original Axel tho, swapped with the engine and tranny (auto) with 96k on them

MAJOR PROPS to Ashton.

It was the innver CV joint.

what do i win what do i win. lol

Nah thats a pretty easy diagnosis....for me anyways. Ive just seen it too many times that its easily recognizable.