Wheel bearings
After 12 years and 10's of thousands of miles a tire tech advised me that I should have my brakes and wheel bearings checked. Bottom line breaks were still good and the wheel bearings also. I do not...
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Aqua-Andy wrote:SoundGuy wrote:
Interesting to me is the fact we're all still dealing with this nonsense. :M I've owned so many vehicles over many decades I can't even remember them all, yet I don't recall ever having to replace or even service the wheel bearings ... until recently. For the first time in my life a wheel bearing on the front driver's side of our 11 yr old Chevy Avalanche went south and had to be replaced ... first time this has ever happened to me. Surely by now the RV industry could install bearings that don't need yearly repacking and under normal circumstances won't fail during the lifetime of the trailer. :S
Actually they do. If you disassembled that failed wheel bearing from your Avalanche you would find of all things, two tapered bearings filled with grease. The trick is they use quality parts and not Chinese ****. GM uses Timken bearings as OE. So replace your bearings with a quality product and use good grease, you should be good for years. Other posts claim there is a difference weather on a truck or trailer, there really is not.
There IS a difference. The Avalanche uses a sealed hub assembly. Yeah, there's bearings in there, but other than replacement, they are not serviceable. You cannot grease them. I've had gm hub assemblies fail on me at 40k and 60k on different vehicles.
