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13th Jun, 2005 at 11:37:35pm

Had my nearside rear wheelbearing collapse tonight luckly i was only doing 40 odd and on a slight bend as it could have been nasty

its seized solid ive left a great darky 50 meters up the road and flatspotted the tyre

there was no warning no whining noise nothing

AA had to get it back

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13th Jun, 2005 at 11:48:08pm

Could have been nasty ! Least it wasn't to bad and you got a free lift home ! *smiley*

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13th Jun, 2005 at 11:56:21pm

i'v had one lock up before, bu ti heard it rumbling, so about-turned and baby'd the car home, only for it to lock up a few miles from my house.. got rescued by teh AA.

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13th Jun, 2005 at 11:57:24pm

I had a front nearside one seize once. Not nice as you have practically no control over the car.
The one I had go failed due to not enough grease in it I reckon, it was a set of hubs I got second hand and bolted on without checking them out first.


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14th Jun, 2005 at 12:24:48am

not good!

pack the new bearing in high temp grease wolfie

omiga 71 is the best in my book

if the new bearing wears out!???
it dont seize it lets you know

having said that its the rear ones we over look
with the correct lubrication

i have been guilty of that in the past






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14th Jun, 2005 at 12:59:52am

lol should add that teh bearign that siezed was due to lack of grease too ... i had replaced it about 6 months earlier and i didnt put that much grease on it as i had no idea how much should be on it (was the 1st bearign i ever did) after that i properly packed bearings with silly amounts of grease, and never had a bearing fail since. that was ~3 years ago, ish. :)

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15th Jun, 2005 at 07:29:13pm

well ive repaired the mini

seems the rear cylinder had been leaking and washed the bearing in brake fluid

Thanks goes out to dangerous who popped round mine with a whole good radious arm as the bearing had welded itself to the stub axle

cheers mate!

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16th Jun, 2005 at 08:08:22am

This guy had is bottom arm come loose last week at a Norwegian Minishow.



Might not look to bad, but remember we drive on the right side (pun intended) of the road.

Edited by Vegard on 16th Jun, 2005.

On 13th Jul, 2012 Ben H said:
Mine gets in the way a bit, but only when it is up. If it is down it does not cause a problem.

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16th Jun, 2005 at 09:42:35am

On 13/06/2005 23:57:24 Tom Fenton said:
I had a front nearside one seize once. Not nice as you have practically no control over the car.


That happened to me in my old clubman - on the m25! dragged me accross another lane :(

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