So I guess the 3 DEs I had in a row with no issues were just too much.
I noticed the car being a little more tail happy into right hand corners(which actually helped out one slow corner on track), and a little more skittish mid-late corner. I checked things, front wheel bearings(GTO 5 lug hubs, ~10k street miles, ~2.5k track miles) were perfect. Rear right OEM wheel bearing(unknown mileage - junkyard said 75k miles - and 2.5k track miles) had about 3/16" of play at the wheel... not good. Rear left Timken bearing (~500-1k street miles, 1.5k track miles) was toast. An easy 5/16" of play at the tire. It was a huge amount of clunking movement.... uhhh... not good.
I verified the upright is staying 100% stationary(finger on both camber arm and RLCA also touching the upright while someone moves the wheel/rotor back and forth. I also noticed some pad knockback on the rear, which points to hub play.
Hub bolts were torqued to spec when I was in there when the Timken bearing was put in(OEM bearing on that side died, figured it was just random part failure and replaced it without worry). Now I'm really starting to wonder WTF is going on. The OEM bearing with lots of wear, I can see that developing some play, but the Timken bearing basically ****ting the bed is not comforting. I'm wondering if they're tossing Chinese bearings in there, but I do seem to recall "Made In Japan" on the bearing race... but it might have been BS or I could be remembering wrong(it was last year when I did the S14 rear subframe).
So my question is... why in the world are these things wearing out so much?
Think I will have better luck with the SKF brand? I am mainly worried about cheap Chinese bearings(what I think the Timkens were).
I noticed the car being a little more tail happy into right hand corners(which actually helped out one slow corner on track), and a little more skittish mid-late corner. I checked things, front wheel bearings(GTO 5 lug hubs, ~10k street miles, ~2.5k track miles) were perfect. Rear right OEM wheel bearing(unknown mileage - junkyard said 75k miles - and 2.5k track miles) had about 3/16" of play at the wheel... not good. Rear left Timken bearing (~500-1k street miles, 1.5k track miles) was toast. An easy 5/16" of play at the tire. It was a huge amount of clunking movement.... uhhh... not good.
I verified the upright is staying 100% stationary(finger on both camber arm and RLCA also touching the upright while someone moves the wheel/rotor back and forth. I also noticed some pad knockback on the rear, which points to hub play.
Hub bolts were torqued to spec when I was in there when the Timken bearing was put in(OEM bearing on that side died, figured it was just random part failure and replaced it without worry). Now I'm really starting to wonder WTF is going on. The OEM bearing with lots of wear, I can see that developing some play, but the Timken bearing basically ****ting the bed is not comforting. I'm wondering if they're tossing Chinese bearings in there, but I do seem to recall "Made In Japan" on the bearing race... but it might have been BS or I could be remembering wrong(it was last year when I did the S14 rear subframe).
So my question is... why in the world are these things wearing out so much?
Think I will have better luck with the SKF brand? I am mainly worried about cheap Chinese bearings(what I think the Timkens were).
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