marc69
31-08-13, 08:07 PM
Just checking my passenger rear hub is ok....
Last weekend I renewed the brakes on the car, the rear brakes are completely standard 1993 Nova.
The handbrake cable was a really tight fit to get on and with new shoes etc I wound the adjusters fully down.
Refitting the hub, the outer bearing obviously was out but the inner bearing was sitting on the stub and not actually in the drum, I pulled it off and the rubber seal, checked it all looked ok, greased inner and outer bearings, put into the drum as hard as I could and put it all together adjusting for no play. I have never seen that before, will this be ok?
I drove the car today, there was a little tick noise coming from this hub which after a few miles got quieter and became a rythmic gentle rubbing noise (no need to quote that lol), after my 30 mile journey the noise had dissapeared, I checked all four hubs for heat etc, all were pretty cool, there was a little more heat on this drum itself than the other side, but not much. Is it likely just that a bit of the shoe was clipping the drum as it is so tight?
There is no bearing noise or wobble and the brakes are even.
Last weekend I renewed the brakes on the car, the rear brakes are completely standard 1993 Nova.
The handbrake cable was a really tight fit to get on and with new shoes etc I wound the adjusters fully down.
Refitting the hub, the outer bearing obviously was out but the inner bearing was sitting on the stub and not actually in the drum, I pulled it off and the rubber seal, checked it all looked ok, greased inner and outer bearings, put into the drum as hard as I could and put it all together adjusting for no play. I have never seen that before, will this be ok?
I drove the car today, there was a little tick noise coming from this hub which after a few miles got quieter and became a rythmic gentle rubbing noise (no need to quote that lol), after my 30 mile journey the noise had dissapeared, I checked all four hubs for heat etc, all were pretty cool, there was a little more heat on this drum itself than the other side, but not much. Is it likely just that a bit of the shoe was clipping the drum as it is so tight?
There is no bearing noise or wobble and the brakes are even.