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**mr48chev** · 10-23-2022, 12:05 AM

Make sure that someone didn't trim the cotter key wrong and that it wasn't rubbing in the cap.

Still inspecting and repacking the wheel bearings is just periodic maintenance and if you do it in far less miles than you planned it is just an hour of your time and a little bit of wheel bearing grease.

I'd pull the bearings out, wipe them off with a shop towel and inspect them and properly pack them and reinstall them. Absolutely do not wash them with solvent unless you fully intend to replace them. The solvent never gets out of the bearing and won't allow the grease to stick to the bearing surfaces right. I was taught that 60 years ago as an automechanics student in high school and have followed it and do not have wheel bearing trouble that doesn't have a different cause. In all the years I was doing brakes for a living I never had a car come back with bad wheel bearing after I serviced the bearings.

10-23-2022, 12:05 AM	#5
mr48chev Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toppenish, WA Posts: 15,838	Re: Bearing cap eroding? Make sure that someone didn't trim the cotter key wrong and that it wasn't rubbing in the cap. Still inspecting and repacking the wheel bearings is just periodic maintenance and if you do it in far less miles than you planned it is just an hour of your time and a little bit of wheel bearing grease. I'd pull the bearings out, wipe them off with a shop towel and inspect them and properly pack them and reinstall them. Absolutely do not wash them with solvent unless you fully intend to replace them. The solvent never gets out of the bearing and won't allow the grease to stick to the bearing surfaces right. I was taught that 60 years ago as an automechanics student in high school and have followed it and do not have wheel bearing trouble that doesn't have a different cause. In all the years I was doing brakes for a living I never had a car come back with bad wheel bearing after I serviced the bearings. __________________ Founding member of the too many projects, too little time and money club. My ongoing truck projects: 48 Chev 3100 that will run a 292 Six. 71 GMC 2500 that is getting a Cad 500 transplant. 77 C 30 dualie, 454, 4 speed with a 10 foot flatbed and hoist. It does the heavy work and hauls the projects around.