How was your day?

[WoundUpMarine]

Spent the day working on my old jeep. New alternator, changed the oil, changed the tranny fluid, and put on new wheel bearings. Guess those Chinese wheel bearings just aren't made like they used to be!!

 

[WoundUpMarine]

Brand new wheel bearing/hub assembly with less than 1/2 a mile on it completely failed. Luckily the only damage done was to disk, caliper assembly and steering knuckle, and hopefully Autozone or the hub manufacturer will pay for replacement parts.

 

[F/V First Team]

I'm glad you're ok bud!

 

[tunaorlater]

My day sucked.........but now I feel better That sucks

 

[CCtuna]

and you werent even wheelin!

 

[Old Mud]

Geezzz, and I thought I was having a bad day with my back ache. I buy some automotive parts made in China out of necessity but never anything that says bearing.

 

[WoundUpMarine]

Yeah, everyone was ok. i was coming down the hill towards my driveway, literally a couple hundred feet from the driveway. Luckily my buddy came to the rescue with his tractor and a few beers!

 

[Toolate]

Pretty sure there is no 4" lift/33" mudder combo in the whole damn country (china that is- been there).

 

[Keelboater]

China can't even make simple doggy treats without consequences. So why are we forced into using inferior parts that can fail catestrophically? Somewhere there must be a politician that knows the true answer to that.

 

[Raider Ronnie]

I'm all for bashing the crap they sell us coming out of China,
But something not right there.
Where is the front axle ???

 

[guitarman]

http://downeastboatforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=16225&stc=1&d=1383014136 I extracted 4' feet of water out of a basement, beds were floating the refrigerator was floating and the power breakers had not been thrown. fun stuff, the water had been in the house for about six weeks

 

[guitarman]

http://downeastboatforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=16226&stc=1&d=1383015143
Notice the water marks on the studs

 

[WoundUpMarine]

Ronnie, front axle shafts werent in as the differential gears werent installed yet, we are still in the process of putting 4.10 gears in. We thought maybe that was what caused it to fail, but after looking at the axle shafts, and the fact that they are free floating in the differential, we decided i didnt royally screw things up and cause this accident. the axle shaft bolts up to the inside race of the wheel bearing/hub, so if they had been install it would have just pulled the shaft out of the axle and caused that much more damage. It was just part failures.

 

[Gurryman]

Ronnie, front axle shafts werent in as the differential gears werent installed yet, we are still in the process of putting 4.10 gears in. We thought maybe that was what caused it to fail, but after looking at the axle shafts, and the fact that they are free floating in the differential, we decided i didnt royally screw things up and cause this accident. the axle shaft bolts up to the inside race of the wheel bearing/hub, so if they had been install it would have just pulled the shaft out of the axle and caused that much more damage. It was just part failures.

The stub axle nut fixes/holds the pre-load on the bearing. Many of these bearings fail because installers over torque the stub axle nut. You erred by not installing at all, and the assembly just fell apart.

 

[WoundUpMarine]

the stub axle backs up against the inside race of the hub and is bolted on the other end to the inside race of the hub, and the inside race fell out of the assembly, so im not sure how having the stub axle in there would have helped, but i would love to know what happened, because if i did err i want to make sure i dont do it again! i just assumed the chinese crap failed.

 

[Gurryman]

My neighbor is a jeep Guru, ASE master tech, Specializes in Jeeps, When I ran this by him after my first post he just laughed. I will not repeat the rest of what he said. The stub axle does exactly what I said, Not China's fault. Fortunately you got lucky that most of the damage was done to your pride,That will heal in time. Glad to see no one got hurt, This could have been much worse if you had made it to the hi-way.