wheel bearings

2000 Explorer XLT, 4.0L SOHC, 2WD, 128,000 Miles I'm hearing a wah-wah-wah-wah-wah sound coming from the front tire/s. The sound is 100% correlated with vehicle seed... speed up and the sound gets faster... slow down and the sound gets slower. I've been told that the front wheel bearings are...

so, the shop has been telling me for awhile that I needed to replace the front wheel bearings, but i kept putting it off and putting it off and well now I'm afraid that i may have cost myself even more money... Today I pulled the front wheel and it looks like my spindle is worn. So how much...

I'm finding SKF bearings and chyneeze bearings around here. (That's what NAPA is selling right now.) Is SKF good or should I keep searching for MOOG? Somebody just said National Brand from Advance Auto Parts were what he used, but I looked real close and saw Chinese characters on them.

I have a 2010 Explorer 4WD V8. At 58,000 I replaced the dealer replaced the front left hub due to noise and vibration. About 70,000 miles the symptoms returned. In the last 10,000 miles I have replaced again the front left hub and right hub for the first time. Also the right rear is showing...

We bought our 2005 Lincoln Aviator about 18 months ago from a guy on Craig's List. Nice clean vehicle, but it had a tremendous noise from the rear end. I suggested to my wife that maybe we should walk away because it sounded expensive, but she had been looking for one with all the options she...

I've seen many of the posts here re Explorers eating wheel bearings on a fairly regular and long term basis. . Mine hasn't had any go bad yet, but I do suspect one starting. When it does go, I will replace with a Timken or SKF. My real question is, why do they go bad? Is this a crappy...

I just purchased a 1994 Ford Explorer 4wd recently and am a first time owner of an Explorer. When driving, I felt a wobble and found a cracked rotor. I replaced both rotors and front pads. I read plenty of threads on this topic, but the new experience with a local mechanic's shop threw me...

On several occasions in the past two years you guys on this forum have provided truly great advice on getting my Explorer fixed, including all the necessary info in replacing both rear spring assemblies, so I'm hoping to get the same kind of invaluable information and help here too. The front...

Hey everyone I'm new on the forums and I was just wondering where I could find a complete wheel bearing replacement kit here on the internet for my 93 ford explorer. Any links you could find would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Replaced all 4 wheel bearings in the last year. Just replaced a fifth wheel bearing this week and now have another one going out. Has anyone else experienced premature failure of replacement wheel bearings. What's the root cause here? Low quality parts, poor installation? I like...

So I was following Glacier's Brake job Diary as a reference while changing out my rotors, pads, and wheel bearings. Started as a wheel bearing replacement job, then figured it would be easier to just get new rotors instead of messing with replacing just the races (rotors still had some life...

Hello everyone! I need some help on this one! I think it is a bad wheel bearing but I have no clue! When I am driving down the road, going straight, I can hear a rumbling sound, goes in and out, and sometimes it is constant. There is a particular road I travel, it has a pretty sharp curve...

I am new to this forum, It was recommended. I bought a 2000 Explorer 2 weeks ago. Yesterday I stopped at a red light and when I pressed on the gas peddle to go the suv would not move. The rpm went up but it felt like I had my emergency brake on. I set the brake and released it. Still no...

Hello to all ford explorer enthusiasts! This is my first post on this site. I will be as descriptive as possible. I got into an accident a while back during a bad winter blizzard. I slammed into a median at a 45 degree angle. The drivers side front panel was destroyed. The tire exploded. I...

Hi, I recently had 4 new tires installed on my '92 Explorer. I also had it aligned and purchased a lifetime free alignment. However, my question is this: When they replaced the tires and did the alignment, should they have been aware of an existing loose wheel bearing? Thanks...

I have a 04 Explorer Sport Trac 2WD XLS with 83K miles and recently was getting a strange sound coming from tires/wheels at 35+mph - at first I thought it was tire noise - I had them replaced last year and now they only had 10K on them, however the good folks at Discount Tire drove the ST and...

New wheel bearings, multiple adjustments, nothing changes! It all started when I replaced my tie-rod ends... Recent (March 2010) front suspension rebuild on my 1994 Limited 4X4 but I never got around to the tie-rod ends. Finally changed them last month - simple task - everything working...