How to tell if your wheel bearings are bad.
I took all 6 hubs off of my RV and it looks like the bearings have spun on the spindle. I have very slight galling On spindles and brown heat marks on bearing were it touches the spindle. On the oute...
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Peg Leg wrote:There's no reason to do this unless the spindle/shaft is too worn to allow for proper fit of the bearing. Even then it is only a doofer, some places will do that if they can't knurl the shaft. If you have to dimple the shaft to get the bearing to fit then it's time to replace the shaft/spindle.
Ping the spindle very lightly with the punch. I've like to hit top, bottom, front, back and then one in between. Think of a compass, N, NE, E, SE, S, ect.
